In Nature Genetics: Solanum pennellii genome

The genome of the stress-tolerant wild tomato species Solanum pennellii

Anthony Bolger, … , Christa Lanz, … , Korbinian Schneeberger, … Daniel Koenig, … , Detlef Weigel, Björn Usadel & Alisdair R Fernie

Nature Genetics (2014) doi:10.1038/ng.3046

Solanum pennellii is … Read the rest

Taking over the eLife Twitter account

Tomorrow (Friday, June 13), we are taking over the eLife Twitter account.

We’ll give you a glimpse of what our lab does, what we are excited about, and what new initiatives we are thinking about. Follow us under #elifetakeover.… Read the rest

Team Weigelworld on collection trip in US

Jane Devos and Gautam Shirsekar are in the US for two months, collecting Arabidopsis thaliana along the Eastern Seaboard and in the Midwest.

This is part of a project where we are following a lineage of A. thaliana that was … Read the rest

New group in herbarium genomics

Dr. Hernán Burbano has been appointed project group leader in herbarium genomics.

Read more about this work here.… Read the rest

In Plant Cell: How the FLOWERING works in FT

A very large scale mutagenesis study points to surface charge being an important determinant of flower promoting activity of FT protein. Rare to have a paper with only two authors these days!

William Wing Ho Ho and Detlef Weigel:

Structural … Read the rest

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With Parcy lab: LEAFY evolution paper in Science

Very proud to have another collaborative paper with former postdoc

François Parcy (who left the lab in 1997), on the evolution of LEAFY DNA binding specificity. This is sort of a follow-up study on a paper by Alexis Maizel, … Read the rest

eLife paper on gene conversions in Arabidopsis thaliana

The genomic landscape of meiotic crossovers and gene conversions in Arabidopsis thaliana

In eLife, with the Schneeberger, Keurentjes and Koornneef labs

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Manavella lab: Max Planck Partner Group in Argentina

Pablo Manavella had a very successful postdoc career in WeigelWorld, making important contributions to our knowledge of miRNA processing and action.

He now won a grant that will support his new lab in Santa Fe, Argentina, as a Max Planck Read the rest

Lisa Smith starting as Lecturer @ Univ. Sheffield

Lisa Smith left at the end of October to start as a Lecturer/Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield

After a very productive time in WeigelWorld, Lisa Smith left at the end of October to start as a Lecturer/Research Fellow … Read the rest