Collaboration with Huq lab: Splicing and phytochrome signaling

Out in PNAS: SPF45-related splicing factor, phytochrome signaling & pre-mRNA splicing

Xin et al. (2017) SPF45-related splicing factor for phytochrome signaling promotes photomorphogenesis by regulating pre-mRNA splicing in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1706379114

Pre-mRNA processing not only … Read the rest

Congratulations, Dr. Diep Tran!

Diep successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Biochemical Basis of Autoactivity of a Pair of Plant NLR Immune Receptors’.

Congratulations, Diep!

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Congrats Danelle: Dissertation Award of Teufel Foundation

Danelle received today the dissertation award of the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Stiftung.

Danelle Seymour defended her PhD thesis on “Exploring the genetics and genomics of Arabidopsis thaliana and its relatives” last year. The dissertation award of the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Stiftung, which includes a personal purse … Read the rest

On bioRxiv: Segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana

The genetic architecture of recurrent segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana

Danelle K. Seymour, Eunyoung Chae, Burak I. Ariöz, Daniel Koenig, Detlef Weigel

doi.org/10.1101/158527

The equal probability of transmission of alleles from either parent during sexual reproduction is a central tenet … Read the rest

On bioRxiv: Arabidopsis genome assembled with one Nanopore flowcell

High contiguity Arabidopsis thaliana genome assembly with a single nanopore flow cell

Arabidopsis thaliana genome assembly with a single Oxford Nanopore flow cell

Todd P. Michael, Florian Jupe, Felix Bemm, Stanley T. Motley, Justin P. Sandoval, Olivier Loudet, Detlef Weigel, … Read the rest

Detlef’s latest talk

Curious about his keynote at the VIB Conference “At the Forefront of Plant Research”?

Check out his presentation on figshare!… Read the rest

Collaborative paper: Methylome and apple fruit development

High-quality de novo assembly of the apple genome and methylome dynamics of early fruit development

Daccord et al.

Nature Genetics (2017) doi:10.1038/ng.3886

Using the latest sequencing and optical mapping technologies, we have produced a high-quality de novo assembly of the

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Biennial department retreat Bad Urach

We spent May 18-19 in Bad Urach

A great two days in Bad Urach, discussing not only exciting science, but also how we can improve ourselves as scientists, both individually and as a team.

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With Mathieu lab: TE-related plant proteins in gene silencing

Arabidopsis proteins with a transposon-related domain act in gene silencing

Latest paper: Arabidopsis proteins with a transposon-related domain act in gene silencing

Yoko Ikeda, Thierry Pélissier, Pierre Bourguet, Claude Becker, Marie-Noëlle Pouch-Pélissier, Romain Pogorelcnik, Magdalena Weingartner, Detlef Weigel, Jean-Marc Deragon

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RNA helicases and hybrid breakdown in A. thaliana

Chlorosis caused by two recessively interacting genes reveals a role of RNA helicase in hybrid breakdown in Arabidopsis thaliana

Björn Plötner, Markus Nurmi, Axel Fischer, Mutsumi Watanabe, Korbinian Schneeberger, Svante Holm, Neha Vaid, Mark Aurel Schöttler, Dirk Walther, Rainer Hoefgen,

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