State Research Prize to Detlef Weigel and Rupert Handgretinger
Detlef Weigel and his colleague Rupert Handgretinger from the university hospital Tübingen
They share this year’s State Research Prize of Baden Württemberg, the highest such award given out by any of the 16 German states. The award ceremony was held … Read the rest
MiRNA regulates development, anthocyanin biosynthesis…
MiR156-controlled SPL transcription factors not only regulate leaf size, speed of leaf initiation, phase change, flowering and trichome formation, but also anthocyanin biosynthesis.
Just out in Plant Cell: MiR156-controlled SPL transcription factors not only regulate leaf size, speed of … Read the rest
Marco Todesco wins Otto Hahn Medal
Marco Todesco will receive the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for this PhD dissertation.
Marco Todesco will receive the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for this PhD dissertation. It comes with the medal shown … Read the rest
Finally! Arabidopsis lyrata genome published
How one can lost a major part of its genome in just 10 million years?
If you want to find out how one can lost a major part of its genome in just 10 million years or so, and to … Read the rest
TIPS review on miRNA networks in development published
Although there are relatively few miRNAs in Arabidopsis, they are more highly connected than one would expect by chance, and form regulatory networks with many direct interactions.
These networks in turn have important roles in the control of development. Read … Read the rest
TIPS review on fast-forward genetics published
Implications of next-generation sequencing enabled genetic approaches for plant biology and plant breeding.
In this review, we discuss the implications of next-generation sequencing enabled genetic approaches for plant biology and plant breeding.… Read the rest
Genetics paper on flowering time architecture published
In maize, many genes of small effects explain variation in flowering time.
In contrast, we report in this paper here that a large portion of flowering-time variation in A. thaliana can be explained by large-effect loci, but that these tend … Read the rest
PLoS Genetics: Paper on phase change in trees published
Out in PLoS Genetics: MiRNA-mediated control of vegetative phase change in trees — collaboration across three continents (Asia, Europe, North America)!
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Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
Detlef Weigel has been elected a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities: http://www.haw.uni-heidelberg.de/index.en.html… Read the rest
Detlef Weigel elected as Fellow of AAAS
Detlef Weigel has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
An honor accorded to distinguished members of the Association, the world’s largest scientific society and publisher of Science magazine. Fellows are elected annually … Read the rest
Felipe Felippes graduates magna cum laude
Felipe Felippes is the sixth student to graduate with a PhD this year.
He is also first author on the last paper of 2010 published by the department (out of 34 total!):
Comparative analysis of non-autonomous effects of tasiRNAs in … Read the rest
Marco Todesco receives dissertation prize
Dissertation prize of the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Stiftung
Marco Todesco received the dissertation prize of the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Stiftung today.… Read the rest
The next decade of genetics and genomics
Perspective by Detlef Weigel and nine other leading geneticists published in Nature Reviews Genetics
Ten years of genetics and genomics: what have we achieved and where are we heading?… Read the rest
Inaugural paper published in PNAS
Global effects of the small RNA biogenesis machinery on the Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome.
Laubinger, S., Zeller, S., Henz, S. R., Buechel, S., Sachsenberg, T., Wang, J.-W., Rätsch, G., and Weigel, D.
Global effects of the small RNA biogenesis machinery on … Read the rest
Beautiful miR172 and AP2 in situs published in Development
On reconciling the interactions between APETALA2, miR172 and AGAMOUS with the ABC model of flower development.
Wollmann H, Mica E, Todesco M, Long JA, Weigel D.Development. 2010 Sep 28. [Epub ahead of print]… Read the rest
MiRNA target mimicry collection published
In a paper just out in PLoS Genetics, we report the generation of a large-scale collection of knockdowns for Arabidopsis thaliana miRNA families.
This has been achieved using artificial miRNA target mimics, a recently developed technique fashioned on an endogenous … Read the rest
Two papers on GWAS and fitness trade-off published in Nature
In collaboration with several groups from around the world, we have recently discovered a locus that underlies a major fitness trade-off between growth and disease resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana.
This work was published today in Nature. An allele at … Read the rest
Detlef Weigel elected to the Royal Society of London
Detlef Weigel is one of eight Foreign Members who have been elected to the Royal Society of London this year.
The Royal Society was founded in 1660 and is the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world. Among its … Read the rest
Collection of 80 sequenced accessions available from ABRC
A collection of 80 A. thaliana accessions sequenced as part of the 1001 Genomes Project is available from ABRC.
Each of the accessions is an inbred line that can be ordered as an individual line or as a set (… Read the rest
New paper: finding mutations in non-reference strains
Last year, we demonstrated that short-read sequencing is very useful to hunt down mutations causal for phenotypes in lines isolated from EMS mutant screens (Schneeberger et al., 2009).
However, this was for mutations induced in the Col-0 reference background, for … Read the rest
