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PhD defense

Congratulations, Dr. Adrián Contreras!

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

Covered in our local newspaper Tübingen Children's University Max…
Very happy to see my colleague Julia Vorholt being recognized with the Novonesis Biotechnology Prize for her groundbreaking work on the plant leaf microbiome. https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/pioneering-plant-microbiome-research-julia-vorholt-receives-2025-novonesis-biotechnology-prize/#plantscience
Congratulations to Jeff Dangl, Jonathan Jones & Brian Staskawicz, winners of the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture! Well done, my friends!https://www.youtube.com/live/gU8VBaR1s1A
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This looks quite cool, latest paper from Frank Johannes on somatic mutations in trees: Branching architecture limits the rate of somatic mutation accumulation in treeshttps://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.21.639457
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