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PhD defense

Congratulations, Dr. Adrián Contreras!

Congratulations, Dr. Adrián Contreras!
PhD defense

Congratulations, Dr. Benjamin Buchfink!

Benjamin Buchfink defended his thesis today. Congratulations!
Max PhD defense

Congratulations, Dr. Maximilian Collenberg!

Max successfully defended his thesis today.

Out in NAR: Pushing the limits of HiFi assemblies (OA)

In-depth comparison of PacBio CLR and HiFi assemblies

Congratulations, Dr. Alejandra Duque!

Alejandra successfully defended her thesis

Now in Quant. Plant Biol.: New tool for DNA methlyation analysis

Methylscore to ID differentially methylated regions

Former postdoc Jiawei Wang wins Xplorer Prize

..which comes with a personal cash award of 3M RMB (~430,000€)

Detlef spoke at Kinderuni

Covered in our local newspaper Tübingen Children's University Max…

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@plantevolution.bsky.social - PlantEvolution 🌱🌾
Amazing! This report suggests that a gall aphid injects into their plant host an enzyme that manipulates auxin levels in the host and thereby induces galls. #plantscience #plantscihttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.08.730764v1.full
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Contradictio in adjecto. Clearly not "omniscient".
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Thank you, @larsostergaard.bsky.social & @eunyoungchae.bsky.social for a wonderful visit to Oxford! An honor to give a lecture named for G. E. Blackman, Sibthorpian Professor of Rural Economy from 1945-70. I spoke about the tension between lab & field work; see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1931312825002100
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Präventive Nachricht von @deutschebahn.com, dass nicht damit zu rechnen ist, dass ein geplanter Umstieg von 6 Minuten am selben Bahnsteig gegenüber realistisch ist…
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