Statement by the Max Planck Institutes in Cologne [more]

Our new PhD students spent two days exploring the life at MPIPZ and Cologne.
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Korbinian Schneeberger awarded prestigious grant [more]

Successful start of public talk series at MPIPZ science barn
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André Marques, group leader in the Department of Chromosome Biology, has been awarded a prestigious and highly competitive Starting Grant  from the European Research Council (ERC). This ERC grant scheme will allow excellent early-career researchers to strengthen their autonomy by advancing their research within the European landscape.
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A great success for this years’ PhD retreat, held from 10-12 of May, bringing together a diverse group of PhD candidates and their supervisors for three days of learning, collaborating and bonding. [more]

A huge congratulations to Jane Parker who is among the new Fellows elected to join the UK’s Royal Society for outstanding contributions in the field of sciences. [more]

Ryohei Thomas Nakano, previously a postdoc with Paul Schulze-Lefert, is now continuing his research as a professor at Hokkaido University in Japan.

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Prof. Patrick Cramer, President elect of the Max Planck Society visits the MPIPZ. [more]

Award ceremony at the Seed Festival in Cologne, Germany [more]

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Pint of science went live again! [more]

From May 4th to 6th, students and supervisors of our PhD programme got together for the first in-person PhD retreat since 2019. [more]

Enric Bertran Garcia de Olalla, a PhD student in the Department of Plant Development Biology, took part in a Spanish outreach school event in March this year. [more]

Rigel Salinas-Gamboa, IMPRS student in the Mercier group, was elected to be part of the new 2022 Plantae Fellow class.
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Isabel Saur, former postdoc in the Schulze-Lefert group has been granted a DFG Emmy Noether group leader position. [more]

MPIPZ provides feedback to the initiative of the European Commission on 'Legislation for plants produced by certain new genomic techniques’
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For the second time, our postdoctoral students invited to a great symposium of interesting talks and discussions.
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Adam Runions, a former post-doc in the Tsiantis group, has been awarded the prestigious Heinz Billing Prize by the Max Planck Society for his work on the Modelling and Analysis of Morphogenetic Processes in plants.   [more]

On October 4 it was finally time to inaugurate the new PhD Tree Alley. [more]

We are delighted to announce that three early career researchers from the Department of Plant Microbe Interactions [more]

For the 16th time, PhD students from the IMPRS on "Understanding Complex Plant Traits Using Computational and Evolutionary Approaches“ and the MPIPZ Graduate School were presenting their work to their research fellows. [more]

117 research facilities appeal to the newly elected bodies to remove obstacles for breeding new plant varieties [more]

Germany’s only purely plant-focused Cluster of Excellence, CEPLAS, will receive an additional seven years of funding through the “Excellence Strategy” programme. This continued support, starting from the beginning of 2019, constitutes a ringing endorsement of the quality of plant science in the Cologne/Düsseldorf area and will ensure that the Rhineland and its institutions will continue to lead the way in world-class plant research. [more]

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Raphael Mercier from INRA Versailles has accepted an offer from the Max Planck President, Martin Stratmann, to develop a new Department at MPIPZ focusing on Chromosome Biology. [more]

HHU Düsseldorf awards PhD prize to Ruben Garrido-Oter [more]

With great sadness we announce that our colleague Peter Starlinger passed away on the 1^st September 2017. He was 86 years old. [more]

“MICRORULES” that was awarded to him for the next five years (September 2017 - August 2022) [more]

The plant molecular biologist Wolf B. Frommer (58) from Stanford University, USA, was nominated by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf together with the Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. [more]

University of Cologne and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) attract a world-leading scientist [more]

The president of the Max Planck Society has appointed Professor Dr. Jonathan Howard to Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research as of April 1, 2013. [more]

Miltos Tsiantis from Oxford University, UK, has accepted an offer from the Max Planck President, Peter Gruß, to develop a new Department at our Institute in Cologne [more]

In recognition of his scientific achievements Dr George Coupland was elected on May 1^st 2012 as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). [more]