Congratulations, Dr. Patricia Lang!

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Patricia successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Identification and characterization of new factors in the framework of Arabidopsis thaliana miRNA function’

Congratulations, Patricia!

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Congratulations! Detlef receiving honorary doctorate from …

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… Swedish University of Agriculture

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Farewell to Patrick

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Patrick just completed his Diploma thesis entitled ‘Specificity and natural variation in response to allelochemicals’.

He will soon move on to start a PhD with Claude Becker at the GMI in Vienna.

Good luck!

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ACD6 dependent hybrid necrosis in local populations

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Novel allelic variants in ACD6 cause hybrid necrosis in local collection of Arabidopsis thaliana

Swiadek M, Proost S, Sieh D, Yu J, Todesco M, Jorzig C, Rodriguez Cubillos AE, Plötner B, Nikoloski Z, Chae E, Giavalisco P, Fischer A, Schröder … Read the rest

Farewell to Ezgi and Jorge

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We’re saying goodbye to Ezgi and Jorge – all the best for their new adventures!

Ezgi will start a PhD with former Weigelworld postdoc Chang Liu at the ZMBP in Tübingen, and Jorge will move to Leipzig and join Barbara … Read the rest

Graduation and farewell party!

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On July 29, we said goodbye to George Wang, who will be heading the Computomics Corporation in Davis, CA. And ….

We also celebrated the three freshly minted PhD graduates, Diep Tran (starting as a postdoc with Lionel Navarro at … Read the rest

Congratulations, Dr. Maricris Zaidem!

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Cris successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Identification of genetic modifiers of ACCELERATED CELL DEATH 6 (ACD6) in natural Arabidopsis thaliana accessions’

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Complex history of Arabidopsis speciation

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Sequencing of the genus Arabidopsis identifies a complex history of nonbifurcating speciation and abundant trans-specific polymorphism

Polina Yu Novikova, Nora Hohmann, Viktoria Nizhynska, Takashi Tsuchimatsu, Jamshaid Ali, Graham Muir, Alessia Guggisberg, Tim Paape, Karl Schmid, Olga M Fedorenko, Svante Holm, … Read the rest

Congratulations, Dr. Jorge Kageyama!

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Jorge successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled ‘Genome-wide analysis of organ-specific DNA methylation patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana’

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Chromatin loops in Arabidopsis thaliana

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Genome-wide analysis of chromatin packing in Arabidopsis thaliana at single-gene resolution

Liu, C., Wang, C., Wang, G., Becker, C., Zaidem, M., Weigel, D.

The three-dimensional packing of the genome plays an important role in regulating gene expression. We have used … Read the rest