News

Tony has been appointed as Professor of Molecular Botany at the RWTH Aachen University and moves there.

Nii-Ayi Ankrah has visited the Dresden lab to establish cytogenetics for kenaf breeding lines. He found surprising chromosomal variability and signs of instability. Read the paper.

We were visiting the International Botanical Congress in Madrid, gave three talks and led two sessions on plant repetitive DNAs.

Article on our EpicBeet project on pflanzenforschung.de.

Our joint collaboration with the Institut Botànic de Barcelona has led to our review on how rDNAs and TEs co-occur and intermingle.

How can you build repeat consensuses that are trustworthy? Are short reads still good for this? How can new genome assembly tools help? Read the preprint!

Sophie's study on Cassandra TEs is now published in Molecular Biology and Evolution: If the 5S rDNA evolves, Cassandra TEs co-evolve, changing their promoters accordingly.

Read about how gene pool boundaries evolve across beets and wild beets in our most recent publication.

The LarchForFlexibility project was funded and starts now. The project aims to secure the supply of larch propagation material with high quality and diversity to increase silvicultural flexibility. 

Tony starts officially at the Uni Graz. To introduce herself and her research, she gives her introductory lecture pretty soon, at the 17.10.2023.