A collaborative effort by the Formosa-Jordan lab from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, the Fox lab from Duke University, USA, and the Roeder lab from Cornell University, USA, developed a new computational pipeline
Researchers in the groups of George Coupland at the Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne and their collaborators have elegantly shed new light on the existing model for how florigen and two other proteins interact at the shoot apex. The results have now been published in Nature.
In a recent Nature Genetics publication, an international team led by Dr. Thomas Hartwig and Dr. Julia Engelhorn (MPIPZ, Cologne; HHU Düsseldorf) introduces a scalable method to map genomic regulatory regions—often referred to as “switches” for their role in controlling the timing and strength of gene expression.
Mercier is awarded together with four other researchers for introducing asexual reproduction through seeds into rice, an innovation that could hugely simplify efforts to propagate elite plant varieties, thus revolutionizing agriculture and contributing significantly to food security.
Together with our University partners in Cologne and Düsseldorf we train about 90 mostly international doctoral students and are inviting talented young researchers to apply for individual open positions and to our structured IMPRS programme.