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PhD defense

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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…

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Evolution of evolvability — thought provoking essay from@thanvisrikant.bsky.social and @hajkdrost.bsky.social![contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Impressive that one of the leading scientific organizations in Europe, the CNRS, has said "good bye" to Web of Science and its pernicious Impact Factors. They are in good company, but that company must grow! Who will be next to wake up?[contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Nice title for this mutation accumulation experiment: "Genes shielded, repeats exposed: mutation bias in the midge Chironomus riparius"Key observation: Exon constitute 23% of callable sites but contain only 10% of observed mutations.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691625v1.full
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"Pseudomonas can make or break a happy phyllosphere microbiota"Daniela Ramírez-Sánchez & I discuss a neat study from the Gu lab on how different Pseudomonas strains influence the success of Fusarium pathogens in wheat by altering host pHhttps://kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fauthors.elsevier.com%2Fa%2F1mFMe6t8JEud9u/1/0102019b08f9c11e-57419e6a-2bd0-41aa-ad37-b4c8fc098cc8-000000/ELEJgyTJtws1vaL14y3oWj8wDKY=456
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Visited Instituto Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediteranea field station La Mayora in Agarrobo and got to see the only place where cocoa trees are being successfully cultivated in Europe!https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/axarquia/scientists-produce-europes-first-cocoa-20230103152809-nt.html
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