EMBO fellowship awarded to Lei
Congrats to Lei for securing an EMBO Long Term Fellowship!… Read the rest
Methods for Genotyping-by-Sequencing
A guide to genotyping-by-sequencing, in Methods in Molecular Biology
Rowan, B. A., Seymour, D. K., Chae, E., Lundberg, D. S., & Weigel, D. (2017).
A major goal for biologists is to understand the connection between genes and phenotypic traits, and … Read the rest
Farewell to Claude
We’re saying farewell to Claude;
After a very successful time in Weigelworld, he will move South and establish his own group at the GMI in Vienna.
We wish you all the best!
With VIB colleagues: Variation in Gibberellin Responses
Natural Variation of Molecular and Morphological Gibberellin Responses
Although phytohormones such as … Read the rest
Farewell to Wanyan
We’re saying goodbye to Wanyan and wish her all the very best for her future.
Thank you for a wonderful three years in the lab, and we hope you find the time to visit us soon!
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Detlef tells us why he loves Genetics
Essay on Occasion of having Been Awarded the GSA Medal 2016
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) Medal is awarded to an individual for outstanding contributions to the field of genetics in the last 15 years. Recipients of the GSA … Read the rest
AraPheno is online
AraPheno: a public database for Arabidopsis thaliana phenotypes
Seren, Ü., Grimm, D. G., Fitz, J., Weigel, D., Nordborg, M., Borgwardt, K. M., and Korte, A.
Natural genetic variation makes it possible to discover evolutionary changes that have been maintained in … Read the rest
Genetics of heterosis
Genetic architecture of nonadditive inheritance in Arabidopsis thaliana hybrids
The ubiquity of nonparental hybrid phenotypes, such as hybrid vigor … Read the rest
Congratulations, Dr. Patricia Lang!
Patricia successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Identification and characterization of new factors in the framework of Arabidopsis thaliana miRNA function’
Congratulations, Patricia!
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Congratulations! Detlef receiving honorary doctorate from …
… Swedish University of Agriculture
Farewell to Patrick
Patrick just completed his Diploma thesis entitled ‘Specificity and natural variation in response to allelochemicals’.
He will soon move on to start a PhD with Claude Becker at the GMI in Vienna.
Good luck!
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ACD6 dependent hybrid necrosis in local populations
Novel allelic variants in ACD6 cause hybrid necrosis in local collection of Arabidopsis thaliana
Swiadek M, Proost S, Sieh D, Yu J, Todesco M, Jorzig C, Rodriguez Cubillos AE, Plötner B, Nikoloski Z, Chae E, Giavalisco P, Fischer A, Schröder … Read the rest
Farewell to Ezgi and Jorge
We’re saying goodbye to Ezgi and Jorge – all the best for their new adventures!
Ezgi will start a PhD with former Weigelworld postdoc Chang Liu at the ZMBP in Tübingen, and Jorge will move to Leipzig and join Barbara … Read the rest
Graduation and farewell party!
On July 29, we said goodbye to George Wang, who will be heading the Computomics Corporation in Davis, CA. And ….
We also celebrated the three freshly minted PhD graduates, Diep Tran (starting as a postdoc with Lionel Navarro at … Read the rest
Congratulations, Dr. Maricris Zaidem!
Cris successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Identification of genetic modifiers of ACCELERATED CELL DEATH 6 (ACD6) in natural Arabidopsis thaliana accessions’
Congratulations, Cris!
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Complex history of Arabidopsis speciation
Sequencing of the genus Arabidopsis identifies a complex history of nonbifurcating speciation and abundant trans-specific polymorphism
Polina Yu Novikova, Nora Hohmann, Viktoria Nizhynska, Takashi Tsuchimatsu, Jamshaid Ali, Graham Muir, Alessia Guggisberg, Tim Paape, Karl Schmid, Olga M Fedorenko, Svante Holm, … Read the rest
Congratulations, Dr. Jorge Kageyama!
Jorge successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled ‘Genome-wide analysis of organ-specific DNA methylation patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana’
Congratulations, Jorge!
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Chromatin loops in Arabidopsis thaliana
Genome-wide analysis of chromatin packing in Arabidopsis thaliana at single-gene resolution
Liu, C., Wang, C., Wang, G., Becker, C., Zaidem, M., Weigel, D.
The three-dimensional packing of the genome plays an important role in regulating gene expression. We have used … Read the rest
Quantitative trait response in ETI: Genetics paper with Dangl lab
Effector Triggered Immune Response in Arabidopsis thaliana Is a Quantitative Trait
Iakovidis, M., Teixeira, P. J. P. L., Exposito-Alonso, M., Cowper, M. G., Law, T. F., Liu, Q., Vu, M. C., Dang, T. M., Corwin, J. A., Weigel, D., Dangl, … Read the rest
1001 Epigenomes: DNA methylation diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana
Epigenomic Diversity in a Global Collection of Arabidopsis thaliana Accessions
Kawakatsu, T., Huang, S.-S. C., Jupe, F., Sasaki, E., Schmitz, R. J., Urich, M. A., Castanon, R, Nery., J. R., Barragan, C., He, Y., Chen, H., Dubin, M., Lee, C.-R., … Read the rest
