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Congratulations, Dr. Adrián Contreras!
PhD defense

Congratulations, Dr. Benjamin Buchfink!

Benjamin Buchfink defended his thesis today. Congratulations!
Max PhD defense

Congratulations, Dr. Maximilian Collenberg!

Max successfully defended his thesis today.

Out in NAR: Pushing the limits of HiFi assemblies (OA)

In-depth comparison of PacBio CLR and HiFi assemblies

Congratulations, Dr. Alejandra Duque!

Alejandra successfully defended her thesis

Now in Quant. Plant Biol.: New tool for DNA methlyation analysis

Methylscore to ID differentially methylated regions

Former postdoc Jiawei Wang wins Xplorer Prize

..which comes with a personal cash award of 3M RMB (~430,000€)

Detlef spoke at Kinderuni

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New carefully conducted study from @michela-audisio.bsky.social finds little evidence for previous, spectacular claims of massive carbon transfer between roots of trees (but support for plant-fungus carbon transfer). https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.19943
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So animals aren’t so different from bacteria when it comes to stress induced (random) mutagenesis (e.g., elifesciences.org/articles/22939). What about plants or fungi?[contains quote post or other embedded content]
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