Open Ph.D. position
A fully funded Ph.D. position will be available in our lab soon (flexible starting date). See the attached flyer for details!
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Phloem Development – a comprehensive review
…we hope. This attempt to summarize the essence of some 150 papers in the field and integrate their findings has now appeared in the Tansley Review series of The New …
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Celebrating Cecilia
Congratulations to our newly minted Ph.D. in the Life Sciences, Dr. Ana Cecilia Aliaga Fandino! After the ‘private exam’ with the outside expert Prof. Remko Offringa from Leiden University, she …
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Double trouble CLE peptide signaling
Our latest nearly-back-to-back outputs in Current Biology and Nature Communications: for years we have known that autocrine CLE45 peptide signaling via its receptor BAM3 suppresses protophloem sieve element differentiation. What …
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The grey zone between natural and artificial exposed
Who would have thought BRX mutants and transgenics will make it to the museum one day? An intriguing exposition at the Natural History Museum in Sion explores the question where …
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“I’m gonna git you SUC8!”
Update: Now published after peer review as “Single-gene resolution of diversity-driven overyielding in plant genotype mixtures” in Nature Communications! We are very happy to have contributed essential resources and services …
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“I think I need a bigger box.”
…for my bigger seeds. Sam’s paper, building on his keen sense of observation, is now out in Development: We found that heterologous expression of certain BRX variants boosts seed size …
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Dusk of an era…
We are happy to announce that Sam and Surbhi are now Dr. Koh and Dr. Rana! Of course we wish them best of luck for their future endeavours at the …
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A conserved module regulates receptor kinase signaling in immunity and development
Our collaborative paper with Zack Nimchuck’s lab at UNC Chapel Hill and Cyril Zipfel’s lab at the University of Zurich is out now in Nature Plants. Supported by the proteomics …
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The “ground truth” of brassinosteroid signaling
Our paper “A single-cell morpho-transcriptomic map of brassinosteroid action in the Arabidopsis root” is available in its final, typeset version online now. The datasets demonstrate that brassinosteroid signaling is essential …
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