Based on the Arabidopsis thaliana haplotype map that we published in 2007, 1200 accessions are currently genotyped with a 250,000 SNP chip by the Bergelson, Borevitz and Nordborg labs.
The data can be found here. The results from performing … Read the rest
The Weigel lab has released the first 80 A. thaliana genome sequences from the 1001 Genomes project.
See the project homepage for details.… Read the rest
Dan Koenig has won one of the highly competitive Long-Term Fellowships from the Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO). Dan is finishing his PhD work with Neelima Sinha at UC Davis and join Team Natural Variation in the Weigel lab … Read the rest
Today, the Otto Bayer Award was presented at an impressive event at the E-werk in Berlin.
Present were, among others, the chairman of the board of Bayer, Dr. Manfred Schneider, the CEO of Bayer, Werner Wenning, Dr. Wolfgang Plischke, member … Read the rest
A very interesting story on Physcomitrella miRNAs guiding DNA methylation at target genes has just been published in Cell, with a cover image.
Stephan Ossowski designed artificial miRNAs, which turned out to provide a small, but useful piece of the … Read the rest
A collaborative paper with the Lynch lab on the rate and spectrum of spontaneous mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana has been published on January 1, 2010, in Science.
The paper provides important information for understanding the longer-term effects of mutation and … Read the rest
Detlef Weigel will receive the Otto Bayer Award 2010 of the Bayer Science and Education Foundation.
The award, one of the most important scientific prizes in the German speaking countries, will be presented by the CEO of Bayer, Werner Wenning, … Read the rest
Nino Shervashidze, PhD student in Karsten Borgwardt’s group, has won the Outstanding Student Paper Award.
Her work was selected from 1105 articles submitted at NIPS, the premier conference in Machine Learning. In her paper, Nino presents a novel algorithm for … Read the rest
The trade magazine Laborjournal regularly publishes rankings comparing the citation records of scientists from the German speaking countries (Austria, Germany, Switzerland).
Across publications that appeared from 2003 to 2006, Detlef Weigel ranked first, by a considerable margin, among both plant … Read the rest
Current short read analysis strategies use only a single reference, ignoring previously identified variants.
We have developed a graph mapping approach, that allows simultaneous mapping against all known variants, and thereby greatly increases the number of polymorphisms discovered.Simultaneous alignment of … Read the rest
Department of Molecular Biology
Max Planck Institute for
Biology Tübingen
D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
