Congrats Karsten Borgwardt – Full Professor ETH

We congratulate former WeigelWorld member Karsten Borgwardt

Prof. Dr. Karsten M. Borgwardt (*1980), currently Associate Professor at ETH Zurich, has been appointed as Full Professor of Data Mining at ETH. Karsten is a highly renowned scientist who works on one … Read the rest

March for Science – Earth Day April 22

Around the world – and also in Tübingen.

For more information: https://www.facebook.com/ScienceMarchTUE/ and marchforscience.com

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Genomics of rapid Evolution in Novel Environments network

Today, on Charles Darwin’s 208th birthday, we announce the launch of GrENE-net

Today, on Charles Darwin’s 208th birthday, we announce the launch of GrENE-net. A coordinated distributed global evolution experiment to study the Genomics of rapid Evolution in Novel Environments, … Read the rest

PhD opening to work on grain amaranths

Research Associate (TV-L E13 65%)
Population and quantitative genomics of heterosis in cultivated Amaranth

The three species of grain amaranth are ancient crops whose grains have a high nutritional value. Their domestication history is characterized by hybridization and gene flow. … Read the rest

Offer to temporary bench or desk space

We are offering scientists temporary bench or desk space…

We are offering scientists temporary bench or desk space, library access and will help with finding accommodation for US-based scientists who are stranded abroad due to the White House Executive Order … Read the rest

Former postdoc Ove Nilsson elected to Royal Swedish Academy

Ove Nilsson – director of the UPSC and professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesRead the rest

Rules of epiallele switching

DNA sequence properties that predict susceptibility to epiallelic switching

Catoni, M., Griffiths, J., Becker, C., Zabet N. R., Bayon, C., Dapp, M., Liebermann-Lazarovich, M., Weigel, D., Paszkowski, J.

Transgenerationally heritable epialleles are defined by the stable propagation of alternative transcriptional … Read the rest

easyGWAS paper in Plant Cell

A Cloud-based Platform for Comparing the Results of Genome-wide Association Studies

Grimm, D. G., Roqueiro, D., Salomé, P. A., Kleeberger, S., Greshake, B., Zhu, W., Liu, C., Lippert, C., Stegle, O., Schölkopf, B., Weigel, D., and Borgwardt, K. M. 

The … Read the rest