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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…

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1/2 Many years ago, @plantylisasmith.bsky.social identified an Arabidopsis hybrid incompatibility due to interaction between different alleles at the OAK receptor-like kinase (RLK) locus, but it was unknown why there is so much sequence diversity at this locus https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1002164
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New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673544v1
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This paper was dedicated to the memory of the late Joanne Chory: Coincidence detection of low temperature and blue light and the control of flowering (by A. Seluzicki & J. Chory)https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62194-y
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Pro tip: if you ask ChatGPT or a similar model to draft an email for a PhD and postdoc position: You are supposed to not only insert your name and contact info, but you would want to also remove the square brackets. Just saying…
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Stating the obvious: “Research posts on Bluesky are more original – and get better engagement”https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02741-1
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