On 22 Mar 2023 at 1:00 pm PhD student of the RTG, Lennart Schwalgun (P10), will defend his dissertation entitled “New insights into nuclear/cytoplasmic partitioning and posttranslational activation of Arabidopsis PI4P 5-kinases” at the lecture hall of Biochemistry, Großer Hörsaal (GHS) of Biochemistry, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3. Feel kindly invited to attend the event and support him… (read more)
Again Srijana Raj convinces with a great poster that was awarded with a poster prize at the Conference Molecular Biology of Plants of the Section Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology of the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) that took place from 06 February to 09 February 2023. Congratulations Sri!!
Debora Gasperini project leader of the RTG project P05 has recently awarded the European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant. She was selected as one of 321 excellent researchers from 2,222 applicants spanning all disciplines of research. The funded grant entitled “MECHANOJAS” aims to further investigate biophysical signals governing the production of jasmonate (JA) and acclimation…. (read more)
When Vera Wagner started her PhD in the project P01 of the RTG, she had already worked on a related project in her master’s thesis at MLU, Plant Biochemistry in the group of Prof. Dr. Ingo Heilmann. Her thesis entitled “Regulatory lipids at the membrane-actin interface in polar growing plant cells” was recently awarded the… (read more)
Two days can pass so quickly. Recently, the RTG members participated in the annual retreat. The members met again at LEUCOREA, the conference center of Martin Luther University in Wittenberg. We arrived together by train and after a coffee break and a brief welcome and introduction, we immediately started with the presentations on the projects…. (read more)
On 28 Sep, 2022 at 11:00 am thematically associated PhD student of the RTG, Nadine Bauer (P01A), will defend her dissertation entitled “Untersuchungen zur neuen Komponente Tic23 der chloroplastidären Proteinimportmaschinerie”. All RTG members are kindly invited to attend the online event and support her in her final challenge. For detailed information, please see the announcement.
On 20 & 21 October, 2022 the RTG members will meet for an exclusive retreat at the LEUCOREA in Wittenberg to discuss about the status of the projects and internal issues. It will be a kind of special event since the current and the upcoming PhD cohorts will take part. So the retreat will be… (read more)
What a great success for the two junior scientists: The posters of RTG PhD students Khansa Mekkaoui (P02) and Srijana Raj (P06A) were awared with poster prizes at Botanik-Tagung, International Conference of the German Society for Plant Sciences, taking place in Bonn from 28 August to 01 September 2022. Congratulations for this awesome achievement!!
Congratulations to Srijana Raj, PhD student of the RTG project P06A, who recently awarded the Best Poster Prize at the Plant Calcium Signaling Conference that took place in Milan from, July 11th to 13th 2022. Great success for her first poster presentation life in person.
Actually, the 3rd year of the RTG has passed and we celebrated it with a cozy RTG get-together yesterday afternoon. The PhD students of our education program have been working really hard in the lab and are making great progress on their thesis. We’re looking forward to the first internal PhD students submitting their dissertation… (read more)
