New paper: Nina Lantzouni and Claus are glad for the collaboration with the George Bassel laboratory (Birmingham/Warwick) on the systems biology analysis of seed germination now published in Current Biology.

A Molecular Signal Integration Network Underpinning Arabidopsis Seed Germination. Curr. Biol. 30, 1-10, October 5, 2020 Hao Xu, Ourania Lantzouni, Tonko Bruggink, Rene Benjamins, Frank Lanfermeijer, Katherine Denby, Claus...[mehr]

Die Experten sind sich einig. Extrem trockene Sommer werden häufiger. Ursache: Klimawandel. Auch im Jahr 2020 wird Regen weiter ausbleiben. Gibt es Konzepte gegen den Wassermangel?

Magere JahreThüringen ist bekannt für seine fruchtbaren Böden. Doch damit etwas darauf wachsen kann, braucht es auch hier Regen. Der fehlt seit März. Die Bauern rechnen mit immensen Ernteverlusten. Auch große Betriebe mit über...[mehr]

Nature publishes the results of the Arabidopsis proteome study conducted by our former PhD student, Julia Mergner, in the SFB project of Bernhard Küster, under participation of the Schwechheimer laboratory.

We are happy to announce that Ourania (Nina) Lantzouni’s second publication is out in The Plant Cell.

GROWTH-REGULATING FACTORS interact with DELLAs and regulate growth in cold stress. http://www.plantcell.org/content/early/2020/02/14/tpc.19.00784 In this very data-loaded study, Nina used RNAseq to understand the role of...[mehr]

Claus Schwechheimer talks about plant genes and genomes in the Lindenkeller in Freising.

Claus Schwechheimer talks about plant genes and genomes in the Lindenkeller in Freising. During a public lecture and in light of the advances made through next generation sequencing, Claus Schwechheimer introduces a general...[mehr]

With a delay but even more happily, we announce here the arrival of several new lab members who joined the lab in January.

With a delay but even more happily, we announce here the arrival of several new lab members who joined the lab in January: Barbara Gelhaus as technician in the Schwechheimer lab, Andrea Lepper as PhD student in the Denninger lab,...[mehr]

Peter Schröder and Carlos Agius (runner’s up) are awarded with a pair of Dr Beats headphones for participating and winning in the SFB poster contest.