How two splice forms of the FLM transcription factor antagonize each other to control temperature dependent flowering
Markus Schmid’s group, with help from Detlef Weigel’s PhD student Felix Ott (who was responsible for the bioinformatic analyses), in collaboration with Richard … Read the rest
Summer 2013
Follow this link to see photos from our retreat in June.… Read the rest
We lead the list, with almost 5000 citations for articles published in 2007 to 2010.
The Laborjournal has released its ranking of developmental biologists active in one of the German speaking countries (Germany, Switzerland, Austria). We lead the list, with … Read the rest
ERC Advanced Grant proposal IMMUNEMESIS is funded
it’s official: our ERC Advanced Grant proposal IMMUNEMESIS is funded. The proposal text is here.
IMMUNEMESIS: The Plant Immune System: Epistasis and Fitness-Tradeoffs
A fundamental question in biology is how multicellular … Read the rest
The Schmid group collaborated with Ji Hoon Ahn, former WeigelWorld postdoc and now professor at Korea University, on this beautiful study on temperature dependent flowering.
Published today in Science.… Read the rest
William received a magna cum laude for his dissertation and public defence of “Structural and Functional Analysis of FLOWERING LOCUS T in Arabidopsis thaliana”… Read the rest
Rubio-Somoza I, Weigel D (2013)
Coordination of Flower Maturation by a Regulatory Circuit of Three MicroRNAs.
PLoS Genet 9(3): e1003374. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003374
The development of multicellular organisms relies on interconnected genetic programs that control progression through their life cycle. MicroRNRubio-Somoza I, … Read the rest
According to the Labtimes, WeigelWorld leads Europe in citation rankings for papers published 2005-2011.
An important contributor was our gene expression atlas paper published in 2005.Click here for more details … Read the rest
Activation of the Arabidopsis thaliana Immune System by Combinations of Common ACD6 Alleles
Marco Todesco, Sang-Tae Kim, Eunyoung Chae, Kirsten Bomblies, Maricris Zaidem, Lisa M. Smith, Detlef Weigel, Roosa A. E. Laitinen
A fundamental question in … Read the rest
Just published in Genome Biology, collaboration with former grad student Korbinian Schneeberger:
User guide for mapping-by-sequencing in Arabidopsis
Geo Velikkakam James, Vipul Patel, Karl JV Nordstrom, Jonas R Klasen, Patrice A Salome, Detlef Weigel and Korbinian Schneeberger
Genome Biology 2013, … Read the rest
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Max Planck Institute for
Biology Tübingen
D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
