2017 Campus Soccer Tournament
Two awesome WeigelWorld soccer teams participated in this year’s campus tournament.
Denisovans
The Elephants
Author Archive for: dereck.mushingairi@tuebingen.mpg.de
Entries by dereck.mushingairi@tuebingen.mpg.de
In Science: Ancient maize adaptation to temperate climate
Genomic estimation of complex traits reveals ancient maize adaptation to temperate North America
Swarts, K., Gutaker, R. M., Benz, B., Blake, M., Bukowski, R., Holland, J., Kruse-Peeples, M., Lepak, N., Prim, L., Romay, M. C., Ross-Ibarra, J., Sanchez-Gonzalez, J. d. … Read the rest
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!
… 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
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
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.
… Latest News
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