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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…
I was considering a vote for the Green Party in the upcoming elections, but with @oezdemir.de’s censorship of established scientific consensus, this is a no go. We’re currently seeing elsewhere what this can lead to. https://www.agrarheute.com/politik/neue-gentechnik-landwirtschaft-zensiert-oezdemir-wissenschaft-632581
Another @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social preprint of work led by @wenfeixian.bsky.social. With our Lausanne colleagues, we revisit the Napoleon Oak. An earlier long-read genome had revealed a relatively low number of somatic mutations (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-017-0066-9).1/2
@harmitmalik.bsky.social asked for a translation from German. Here is a lightly edited machine translation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10kXAuDw_-BV7RghP0CXUBdc4c0scX04L/view?usp=sharingImages below.[contains quote post or other embedded content]
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