Field trail in Madagascar
After all the preparations had been made, our group consisting of Dr. Zhihui Wen, Dr. Xiaoming He, Ben Wilhelm Braun and Alena Albrecht left Bonn for Madagascar in February. At the airport in Frankfurt we met two colleagues from the IPK in Gatersleben, Dr. Ivan Lopez-Valdivia and Dr. Matias Schierenbeck and together we started our journey to Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.
SPP meeting in Leipzig
Xiaoming He presented his work at the final meeting of the SPP2089 „Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organization - a key to rhizosphere function“.
DMK and DBG awards for Cay Schäfer
Cay Schäfer was awarded the DMK (Deutsches Maiskomitee) Prize for Young Scientists 2024 for her master's thesis “Crosstalk between the micronutrient boron and the phytohormone auxin on the level of polar auxin transport during primary root development of maize (Zea mays)”. In addition, her master thesis was selected as best master thesis in Plant Sciences at the University of Bonn by the DBG (Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft).
Congratulations to Emmy Noether group leader Peng Yu for his appointment as professor at TU Munich
Peng Yu was today appointed professor for Plant Genetics at the TU Munich School of Life Sciences. We are very proud of you!
Faculty prize for Danning Wang
Congratulations to Danning for receiving the faculty prize for the best thesis in plant science.
Congratulations to Yan Naing Win for successfully passing his PhD exam
Yan worked on the development of the BonnMu transposon resource in maize and functionally charactized one of the BonnMu root mutants.
Lab trip
The CFG and CS group enjoyed a wonderful hiking trip on the Apollinaris-Schleife, which included a wine tasting from the Maibachfarm at the Ahr Valley. Later, we had the opportunity to see and got to know the ostriches at the farm in Remagen.
Science prize for Dr. Caroline Marcon
Dr. Caroline Marcon has been awarded the Theodor Brinkmann Science Prize by the Faculty of Agriculture at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. During the Faculty Council meeting in April 2024, Dean Prof. Dr. Heiko Schoof recognized her exceptional habilitation thesis titled “Functional genomics of maize (Zea mays L.) seedling roots.”