Have you ever wondered why you and your siblings are different? Join us for an exciting public talk by our post-doc Joiselle Fernandes within the walls of our greenhouse
@mpipz_cologne
🍅🌿⏰ 1 Oct, 6 pm. Find out more and register 👉
#plantsci
#scicomm
Please spread the word: we are looking for 10+
#PhD
students to join our
#IMPRS
@mpipz_cologne
&
@UniCologne
in 2021.
Find details at & all projects in this thread.
Apply until Nov 16 to become part of the Cologne plant science community!
#PlantSciJobs
We have officially welcomed our 2022 class of PhD students. An international (🇲🇽🇩🇪🇧🇦🇷🇺🇹🇷🇧🇪🇬🇷🇳🇴🇳🇬🇮🇳🇵🇭🇻🇳🇰🇷🇮🇹🇨🇳🇨🇦) group of curious and clever young people with a bright future
@mpipz_cologne
and
@UniCologne
✨ We are so happy to have you with us! 🤗
Csaba Koncz retired after 35 years at the MPIPZ. His groundbreaking work on plant transformation, brassinosteroids as regulators of plant growth & development and many other contributions have changed our insitute and the plant sciences. Csaba, you will be missed!
📢We are
#hiring
! 📢Please RT! Multiple
#PhD
and
#postdoc
positions available with our research group leader Ruben Garrido-Oter
@mpipz_cologne
on host-microbiota interactions. 📣Apply now! 🌿
#plantsci
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Our 🇩🇪Institute is currently filling 4 PhD student positions. In this EU-funded
#rePLANT
programme with the 🇪🇸
@CRAGENOMICA
, students will further collaborate with the 🇬🇧
@JohnInnesCentre
Apply by 🗓️Aug 27th 2023
👉
📢 Our
#IMPRS
@mpipz_cologne
&
@UniCologne
currently fills 9 PhD positions. We are looking for students with a keen interest in experimental & computational plant biology to join us in 2022!
Find more details at and apply by Dec 6.
#PlantSciJobs
#PhDjobs
How is the astonishing diversity of plant leaf shape genetically controlled?
@zhongjuan_zhang
, Miltos Tsiantis & team have published a highly interdisciplinary study
@CurrentBiology
which identifies a WOX/auxin module as regulator of leaf growth:
Our 🇩🇪 Institute and the 🇪🇸
@CRAGENOMICA
are currently filling 14! PhD student positions. In this EU-funded
#rePLANT
programme, students will further collaborate with the 🇬🇧
@JohnInnesCentre
.
Apply by 📆 March 19th 2023 and help us 📣 spread the word!
👉
Woohoo: Joram Dongus from the
@ParkerLab_MPIPZ
excelled in defending his PhD thesis on pathogen defence 🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Joram, you've done a superb job and impressed the online and socially distanced audience! Now on to "Champagne de Cologne" & the "Doktorhut" ceremony 👨🎓
Very cool: High-throughput sequencing of pollen DNA using
#10XGenomics
enables efficient identification of hundreds of recombination sites without even growing a single recombinant plant. New preprint from the Schneeberger and
@michelmorelab
:
Gravierende Konsequenzen für die Landwirtschaft und die Welternährungssicherheit: Stellungnahme der
@mpipz_cologne
Direktoren zu der jüngsten Entscheidung des
#EuGH
bezüglich genetisch veränderter Organismen:
The future's looking good. We have welcomed the 2019 class of bright, enthusiastic PhD students to the
#MPIPZ
and cannot wait to see them grow. Best of luck everyone, we are happy to have you with us!
Belowground solutions to aboveground problems. New
@NaturePlants
paper from
@hacquard_st
,
@hou_shiji
& team: roots-to-microbes and leaves-to-light responses converge to favour plant growth over defence in low light. 👏 all authors!
📣Paper Alert! New publication out in
@NatureMicrobiol
by the Schulze-Lefert group
@mpipz_cologne
on the development of a modular toolkit for tracking bacteria in plant microbiota. Congratulations!👏🥳Learn more here 👉
#microbiome
In a new
@NaturePlants
paper by Paul Schulze-Lefert's group, Ka-Wai Ma (
@KaWaiMa6
) shows that the composition of plant microbiota is crucial in achieving and maintaining plant-microbe homeostasis. Congrats to all authors!
🗞️
📄👇
🎓🌟 Hats off to Jana Ordon from Paul Schulze-Lefert's Department
@mpipz_cologne
for achieving her PhD! Fantastic job, Jana! Wishing you the best in all your future pursuits! 🥳🚀
#phdone
#phdlife
#plantsciPhD
We are delighted to announce that
@Raph_Mercier
from
@ijpb_fr
has accepted an offer from the
@maxplanckpress
President to become the director of a new Department
@mpipz_cologne
focusing on Chromosome Biology:
Looking forward to have you with us, Raphael!
Our 2021 Class of PhD students added their (ornamental 🍒) tree to our growing PhD tree alley. These
#PhTrees
beautifully recognise the outstanding work of early career researchers
@mpipz_cologne
&
@UniCologne
!
#phdlife
📢This year’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science is just around the corner on
#11F
. 🎉🥳Let’s highlight some voices from our female researchers
@mpipz_cologne
. Learn more about our scientist Aurélia
@A_Emonet
here 👉
#womeninSTEM
#IDWGS
📢We are
#hiring
! 📢Please RT!
@mpipz_cologne
has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity. Apply now! 👉
#plantsci
Join our interdisciplinary
@mpipz_cologne
community in Germany and submit your application for a fully financed
#PhD
program at the
#IMPRS
! 🗓️deadline for applications for doctoral projects commencing in 2024 is January 6, 2024. 📢spread the word, 👉
Please RT 🔁 Our own
@marques_et_al
currently recruits a
#postdoc
to study meiotic and centromere adaptions in holocentric plants. Key facts are summarised below and more information is available at
#PlantSciJobs
Hooray! We have a new doctor at
@mpipz_cologne
🥳
@itsmanishgoel
from
@LabSchneeberger
impressed the online audience with an absolutely outstanding defence of his PhD project. Huge congratulations, Dr. Manish!
Want to learn more about his project? 👉
New paper from our institute: a team from
@hacquard_st
's lab sampled root microbial communities from 17 🇪🇺 sites for 3 years and captured the complexity of host-microbe dynamics.
Find this Tour de Force
@NatureEcoEvo
: and congratulations to all authors!
Ever wondered about the genetic basis for plant leaf complexity? 🌿🍁🍀
Watch our full movie at and have a look at the latest paper from the Tsiantis department
@CellCellPress
:
Congratulations to all the authors!
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research - An Arabidopsis regulatory module controlling pathogen resistance triggered by cell-surface and intracellular receptors
It's that time of year again – harvesting🍎! More than 20 different kind of apples from regional old tree populations at our institute
@mpipz_cologne
and our show garden.
#harvest
#biodiversity
Another one from the Schulze-Lefert Dept: highly divergent fungal effectors are directly recognised by highly sequence-related plant immune receptors. The work by
@IzzySaur
et al. is published
@eLife
and may enable engineering of the plant immune system. Links below
Aaaaaand another doctor is born!
@mahdi_lisa
brought her PhD with
@Team_Zuccaro
@UniCologne
to an outstanding end. You can find some of her work in and we look forward for more to come. Big congratulations, Lisa and all the best for a bright future 💫
📢 New paper
@ScienceMagazine
: Direct pathogen-induced assembly of an NLR immune receptor complex to form a holoenzyme
Great collaborative work by the Chai, Schulze-Lefert, and
@ParkerLab_MPIPZ
- congrats to all authors!
👉
👉
Our very first
@mpipz_cologne
#postdoc
retreat in Radevormwald is in full swing! 🎉🥳Looking forward to exciting scientific talks & fun activities! A great opportunity for our amazing early-career researchers to exchange ideas and engage with their peers. 🌿🌱
#career
#plants
We are absolutely delighted to hear that
@Raph_Mercier
Director of the Department of Chromosome Biology at our Institute has been elected as
#EMBO
Member for his outstanding scientific achievements. Congratulations Raphael!!!
52 Members and 11 Associate Members have been newly elected and join the community of the EMBO Membership. They boast a large range of accomplishments, with candidates elected based on scientific excellence and pioneering research. Read more at
We are thrilled to announce the election of 120 members and 23 international members to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continued achievements in original research.
Congratulations to our new
#NASmembers
!
#NAS160
📢 The results of the 2022 ERC Consolidator Grant competition are out: €657 million for 321 researchers.
Who has been offered funding?
What topics they will investigate?
Where will they do their research?
Discover the details ➡️
🇪🇺
#EUfunded
#ERCCoG
#PlantSciJobs
: Our Tsiantis Department is currently looking for a Developmental Biologist to work on morphodynamic analysis of leaf shape diversity ☘️🍀🍁🍂. Please spread the word and find all info below 👇
Fantastic time at our Annual Science Day
@mpipz_cologne
! Exciting first day full of interesting talks on
#plant
science and engaging poster sessions. Ready for more coming up today.
#plantscience
#engage
We congratulate Katharina Melkonian (
@KatharinaMel1
) who has just yesterday obtained her PhD in
@Grandpa_Hiro
's group
@mpipz_cologne
👩🔬➡️👩🎓
Well done, you will be missed and we will keep our fingers tightly crossed for your next exiting career chapter 🤞
How do plant roots interact with their environment? Join our new group leader
@TonniGrube
as a
#postdoc
or
#PhD
student and find out!
Interested in the postdoc position?
Interested in the PhD student position?
#PlantSciJobs
A fantastic MPIPZ Alumni Career Day comes to an end. Thanks to all the speakers and participants for very lively and genuine discussions on career opportunities for plant scientists!
#PhD
#Postdoc
#Career
📢📢Paper Alert! New publication out by the Hay group
@mpipz_cologne
and others on seed pods of the hairy bittercress and how they power their own explosion
@CurrentBiology
Congratulations! 🥳 👏 Learn more about it here 👉
#plantsci
📢 Our
#IMPRS
@mpipz_cologne
&
@UniCologne
currently fills 11 PhD student positions. If experimental/computational plant biology is your thing and if you have (or are about to have) a related Master's apply by November 16th and find all info at
👉
📢 Exciting opportunity alert!
@mpipz_cologne
is looking for talented PhD candidates to join 4 cutting-edge projects in the EU-funded
#rePLANT
programme. Collaborate 🇬🇧
@JohnInnesCentre
and 🇪🇸
@CRAGENOMICA
and make a real impact in plant research. 🌱
Learn more and apply here: 👉
‼️ Attention all aspiring PhD students!
The
#rePLANT
Programme offers in this second call 4 predoctoral grants at
@mpipz_cologne
🗓️ Deadline for applications: August 27th
🔗 Hurry up and apply now! 👉
One more addition to the ranks of Doctors! 🎉 A big congratulation to Dr. Frederickson Entila from Paul Schulze-Lefert's group
@mpipz_cologne
🥳🥳 Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!
#phdlife
#PhDone
📣 New doctor in the house! Huge congratulations to Dr. Rigel Salinas-Gamboa
@mpipz_cologne
on successfully defending her thesis! 🎉🎉 Well done Rigel! 👏🥳🥳
#PhDone
#plantsci
Please spread the word: the Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences
@ceplas_1
currently invites applications for 21 (yes, twenty-one)
#postdoc
projects, including some hosted
@mpipz_cologne
.
📅application deadline: June 6
❓further information: 👇
📣DEADLINE EXTENDED:
@mpipz_cologne
&
@CRAGENOMICA
invite international candidates who hold, or pursue, a Master's degree to apply for 1 of 14 available PhD student positions in plant reconstruction biology. Further information on
#rePLANT
is available at
📢 Paper alert! Are fungi friends or foes in the plant root microbiome? Check out this new
@NatureComms
study from Fantin Mesny (
@f_mesny
), Stéphane Hacquard (
@hacquard_st
) & colleagues to find out! 👏 Congrats to all the authors for their great work 👏
👇
Great time at our Welcome Days for the new PhD class
@mpipz_cologne
and
@UniCologne
. Lots of fun and interaction during the cologne city rally together with various presentations gave a great overview on the new
#phdlife
. Welcome class 2021!
#plants
#research
#PhD
📣Paper Alert! New publication out
@NaturePlants
by André Marques
@marques_et_al
@mpipz_cologne
and his team on the regulation of crossing-over activity in holocentric chromosomes. 🎉Congratulations! 🥳👏Read more about it here 👉
📣📣Paper alert! New publication out by Hirofumi Nakagami
@Grandpa_Hiro
@mpipz_cologne
and others, giving insights into prehistoric plant immunity. Read more here 👇Congratulations! 🥳👏👏
New paper from the Coupland group published
@CellReports
:
@MaidaRomera
et al. show that 2 florigen-interacting bZIPs, FD & FDP, have distinct functions in Arabidopsis flowering control which may have diversified from a more ancient role in ABA signalling:
New article from the Hay and
@RichardSmithLab
published
@eLife
!
@Marie_Monniaux
et al. define the role of the pleiotropic floral regulator APETALA1 (AP1) in petal number robustness:
📢 We are seeking a Head of Public Relations & Outreach.
If you are passionate about plant science and interested in a career in
#scicomm
this position is for you!
Healthy plants need iron for optimal growth – but can they rely on their resident bacteria to help in times of starvation?
Read the latest piece from
@CjHarbort
, Paul Schulze-Lefert & team
@cellhostmicrobe
to find out!
👉
👉 (pr)
📣📣New paper out by the Tsianits group
@mpipz_cologne
on understanding how evolutionary modifications in expression of developmentally important genes are translated into diverse leaf shapes. Congratulations 👏👏
#evolution
#plants
#Genetics