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📣Your PhD journey starts NOW! Join our #webinar on Sept 4, 1-3 PM (CEST) & explore #PhD opportunities at Max Planck's IMPRS in NRW, Germany! 🇩🇪 Gain insights into groundbreaking research & register here: events.gwdg.de/e/PhDatMaxPl... #MaxPlanck #Research #Germany #Science
08.07.2025 12:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🥳 Well-deserved celebration 🥳🎉. What a wonderful tradition – fantastic science, brilliant cover picture @nature.com and awesome cake 🍰 🌹. Huge congratulations @amarques.bsky.social and team 👏👏
03.07.2025 14:20 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0📣Great news – Congratulations to @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social and all winners of this year’s award! 👏🥳🎉 #plantscience
02.07.2025 12:43 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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📣📣We are #hiring! 📣Please RT! @mpipz.bsky.social has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity 🌿. Apply now!🌿 👉http://bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantsci
27.06.2025 07:14 — 👍 37 🔁 52 💬 0 📌 2🎉 We’re thrilled to share that our director Miltos Tsiantis has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu for his project CLONAL, which will explore the development and diversity of root suckers. Congratulations! 🌱👏Learn more: bit.ly/43KuvBe #ERCAdG #plantsci
17.06.2025 10:49 — 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 3
Promotional poster with images of an Arabidopsis flower development over time from a cluster of identical cells to the final flower and two models of Arabirbiopsis flower meristems highligting active genes. Text reads: 9th Plant Computational Biology Workshop, 8-12 September 2025, Sainsbury Laboratory, University fo Cambridge.
🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts!
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social
22.05.2025 15:37 — 👍 113 🔁 42 💬 15 📌 1🌿We are thrilled to share that Prof. Miltos Tsiantis @mpipz.bsky.social has been elected as new Fellow of the @royalsociety.org in recognition to his work on plant organ development 🌿🥳 🎉Congratulations! 👏👏 👉 bit.ly/435gPjT #plantsci
20.05.2025 12:33 — 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
⏰ Tic Toc... Last chance to grab tickets for today’s #pint25de! 🌿🪴Join us in Cologne for an evening of exciting talks from the world of #plant science with our scientists from @mpipz.bsky.social 🌱🍻 Don't miss out – science is best served with a pint! #scicomm 👉
pintofscience.de/event/gruene...
The post shows a picture of Ram after successfully passing her viva on a green background with words congratulating him on acquiring the PhD title.
Celebrating a new PhD at @mpipz.bsky.social! 🎓 Dr. Ram Sevak Raja Kumar defended her thesis in @hacquardst.bsky.social’s lab. Congrats, and all the best for what’s next! 🌟 #PhDone #PlantScience
14.05.2025 09:52 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
#Köln liebt Wissenschaft, und das Pint of Science Festival kehrt mit Veranstaltungen auf 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧 zurück 🥳
The city of #Cologne is up for a treat this year at the #pint25de, with exciting events in both English & German 🍻
Programm und Tickets:
www.pintofscience.de
#wisskomm #scicomm
🍹In our new #PlantersPunch CEPLAS Postdoc Craig Dent from @labschneeberger.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social pz.bsky.social explains why the DNA of the European potato is at the same time diverse...and not diverse🤔! Very exciting story! One question remains: which one tastes best 🥔🍟😜?
➡️ bit.ly/42Mys6F
Interested in hearing more about the story behind our latest paper?
Check out our blog post and the latest @naturepodcast.bsky.social episode!
📝 go.nature.com/3G73vT7
🎙️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
📢 Excited to share our work out now in @nature.com! 📢
We present the phased pan-genome of tetraploid European potato, based on 10 historical cultivars representing 85% of European potato diversity.
Learn more below!
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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📣Paper Alert! 📣New publication out @nature.com by @labschneeberger.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social on the genome reconstruction of historic potato cultivars. 👏🌿🥔 Congratulations! 🥳👏Learn more 👉 bit.ly/3GeGcGX
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 7th International Fascination of Plants Day 2024 🍃 - Success stories – Enjoy the best from over 670 interactive events in over 65 countries. Get inspired to organise an interactive event in your country for the FoPD 2026.
💡 Learn more: bit.ly/4lvTAa2
#PlantDay #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU
📣Paper Alert! 📣New publication out by @hacquardst.bsky.social and his team on the development of MetaFlowTrain – a new tool to study metabolic exchange and interactions within microbial communities @naturecomms.bsky.social 👏🥳Congratulations! 👉https://bit.ly/44jnM1H
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Lots of fun and exciting insights into #plantsci at our #Girls'Day yesterday! 🥳 Our guests took part in fantastic hands-on experiments in our labs and toured the greenhouse 🌿☘️. A huge thank you to everyone who made this inspiring day possible! 🌱🔬🧪 #STEM #womeninscience
04.04.2025 16:03 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Early-career reseachers at one of our Max Planck Institutes.
🚀 Apply now 🚀
The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops.
postdocprogram.mpg.de
#ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram
Join the GMI as a Junior Group Leader! The GMI is seeking a talented scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing fundamental questions in molecular plant biology. More information is below.
17.03.2025 16:17 — 👍 41 🔁 51 💬 1 📌 3
Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
📣Paper Alert! New publication @science.org by the group of @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social, colleagues @ucph.bsky.social & others on the Casparian strip and its role in metabolic trade between plants & bacteria. 👏Learn more 👉https://bit.ly/4bJe4Yd
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The post shows a picture of Henriette after successfully passing his viva on a green background with words congratulating him on acquiring the PhD title.
We are happy to announce another PhD success at @mpipz.bsky.social! 🎉 Dr. Henriette Läßle has passed her viva in Jane Parkers’s lab. Huge congrats, Dr. Läßle, and best of luck with your next steps! 🚀🌱🎓
#PhDSuccess #PlantScience #PhDone
Auf dem Bild ist Elisabeth Schiemann zu sehen. Wenn Ihr mehr über die Botanikerin und NS-Gegnerin erfahren wollt, empfehlen wir Euch folgenden Artikel „Allen Widerständen zum Trotz“, in dem Franziska Turck (li.) über ihr Vorbild Elisabeth Schiemann (re.) spricht: www.mpg.de/11970011/eli...
08.03.2025 13:49 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Flyer for the DC and nationwide rally on March 7, 2025. "Stand up for Science", "Science is for everyone".
To everyone in the U.S. standing up for science today, calling for policies that support science, not suppress it: we’re with you! Cutting science doesn’t just harm scientists – it harms society as a whole. #StandUpForScience
07.03.2025 11:50 — 👍 168 🔁 51 💬 3 📌 2Ihr wollt wissen, wie Wissenschaftskommunikation geht🧪🔬? Dann meldet Euch jetzt an 👇 #wisskomm #scicom
13.03.2025 09:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Deadline extended 😀 - still time to submit your abstract. 🌿🔬 #2025ISMPMI
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The post shows a picture of Lisa after successfully defending her viva on a green background with words congratulating her on aquiring the PhD title.
More PhD success! 🎉 Dr. Lisa Brombach has passed her viva in Miltos Tsiantis’ lab @mpipz_cologne. Their thesis: "Deciphering genetic control of lateral leaf growth via WOX genes in Cardamine hirsuta."
Huge congrats, Dr. Brombach ! Wishing you all the best for what's ahead. 🎓✨
#PhDone
The post shows a picture of Neda after successfully passing her viva on a green background with words congratulating her on aquiring the PhD title.
Another PhD success! 🎉 Dr. Neda Rahnamae has passed her viva at the Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Cologne, in Juliette de Meaux’s lab, as part of the IMPRS at @mpipz.bsky.social.
Congrats, Dr. Rahnamae, and best wishes for the future! 🎓✨
#PhD #PlantScience #PhDone
In #CEPLAS_Faces we ask six questions to one of our scientists. In our current issue they are answered by Franziska Turck from @mpipz.bsky.social.
Read the full interview 👉 bit.ly/434vjAL
