Collaborative paper with Oliver Mathieu’s group

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Epigenome confrontation triggers immediate reprogramming of DNA methylation and transposon silencing in A. thaliana F1 epihybrids.

Rigal, M., Becker, C., Pélissier, T., Pogorelcnik, R., Devos, J., Ikeda, Z., Weigel, D., and Mathieu, O.

Genes and transposons can exist in variable … Read the rest

Talia receives HFSP fellowship

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Congratulations to Talia for receiving an HFSP post-doctoral fellowship!… Read the rest

Pearls review on plant immunity

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Cooperation and conflict in the plant immune system.

Chae, E., Tran, D. T. N., and Weigel, D.

Plants have a sophisticated innate immune system with which they defend themselves against a myriad of pathogens. During the past two decades, work … Read the rest

How to validate the identity of genetic stocks – letter in Plant Cell

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A proposal regarding best practices for validating the identity of genetic stocks and the effects of genetic variants

Bergelson, J., Buckler, E. S., Ecker, J. R., Nordborg, M., and Weigel, D.

Colleagues from the medical field have estimated that up … Read the rest

Arabidopsis, Alter! – Leaf sampling completed

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We harvested thousands of leaf samples from a large subset of the 1001G genotypes grown in challenging conditions in Madrid and Tübingen.

Winds and snow threatened the success of the experiment, but we verified how tough both Arabidopsis and researchers … Read the rest

Join us as a Computational Biologist/ (Bio)Informatician

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We are looking for motivated team players (PhD student or Postdoctoral level) to join our efforts in generating multi-reference plant and meta-genomes.

More information and the full ad is here.… Read the rest

Heavy winds challenge field experiment

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A stormy night in Tübingen blew away the cover of our foil tunnel harboring hundreds of Arabidopsis accessions undergoing a fitness experiment.

Thanks to all who helped repairing it so quickly!
Special thanks to all the members from Oliver Bossdorf’s … Read the rest

Genetics Society of America awards Detlef the 2016 GSA Medal

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Detlef has been awarded the GSA Medal for his outstanding contributions to the field of genetics in the last 15 years.

The society honors both seminar contributions to the understanding of flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana and the development of multiple … Read the rest

Genome-edited crops: regulatory framework proposal in Nature Genetics

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A proposed regulatory framework for genome-edited crops

Huang, S., Weigel, D., Beachy, R. N., and Li, J.-y.

Crop breeding is being revolutionized by rapid progress in DNA sequencing and targeted alteration of DNA sequences by genome editing. Here we propose … Read the rest