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
Nature: FLM splice form antagonism in flowering
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
WeigelWorld retreat
Summer 2013
Follow this link to see photos from our retreat in June.… Read the rest
WeigelWorld also most highly cited dev biol lab in DE/CH/AT
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 funding for Detlef Weigel
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
Temperature dependent flowering in Science
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
Congratulations, Dr. William Ho!
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
In PLoS: A miRNA network regulating flower maturation
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
WeigelWorld most highly cited plant lab in Europe
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
In PLoS Genet: Autoimmunity caused by ACD6 alleles
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
User guide for mutation identification by sequencing
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
