What an end to the year and a finish to our IRTG! 🎉Congratulations to Hawi Deressa Kenea from the @thomas-spallek.bsky.social lab on her defence today!

On 4 December, we marked the fourth defence in our RTG. Congratulations to Durga Prasad Naik Bhukya from the @thomas-spallek.bsky.social lab!

What a start to the final month of our IRTG! Congratulations to Anja Sieven from the @kaiheimel.bsky.social lab on her defence!

📢Applications are open for the second cohort of our RTG! Learn more about the opportunities: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi... 🔔Join our info meeting on Dec 10, 1 p.m. CET. Register via: survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/34...

We are hiring the second cohort of EvoReSt PhD students. If you are interested in deep evolutionary questions, checkout: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/687607.html Apply here: obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/In...

What a week! Congrats to @numahmud.bsky.social on his successful defence!

Gagan Gupta was the first to graduate from our third cohort of PhD students on August 20th, 2025. Congratulations! #irtg2712

Congrats!!!

Congrats to our doctoral researcher, Gagan Gupta, well done! #IRTG2172 #ecfg17 #ecfg2025 #ecfg172025

#IPIS2024 speaker's intro: Dr. Sophie de Vries See you at the 3rd IPIS2024 (Aug 26-28, 2024) in Göttingen, Germany. #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Please visit uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html

#IPIS2024 speaker's intro: Prof. Kai Heimel See you at the 3rd IPIS 2024 (Aug 26-28, 2024) in Göttingen, Germany. #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Please visit uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html for more details.

#IPIS2024 speaker's intro: Prof. Armin Djamei See you at the 3rd IPIS 2024 (Aug 26-28, 2024) in Göttingen, Germany. #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Please visit uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html for registration

#IPIS2024 speaker's intro: Dr. Daniela Nordzieke See you at the 3rd IPIS 2024 (Aug 26-28, 2024) in Göttingen, Germany. #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Please visit uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html for registration

#IPIS2024 speaker's intro: Dr. Thomas Spallek See you at the 3rd IPIS 2024 (August 26-28, 2024) in Göttingen, Germany. #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Please visit uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html

#IPIS2024 speaker's intro: Prof. Guus Bakkeren See you at the 3rd IPIS 2024 (August 26-28, 2024) in Göttingen, Germany. #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Please visit uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html

#IPIS2024 speaker's intro: Prof. Natalia Requena See you at the 3rd IPIS 2024 (August 26-28, 2024) in Göttingen, Germany. #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Pls visit uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html

#IPIS2024 speaker's intro @isabelmonte.bsky.social Join us @3rd IPIS2024 in Göttingen, Germany #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Pls visit www.uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html Registration is free; deadline 30.06.24

#IPIS2024 speaker's intro: Dr. Slavica Janevska Join us at 3rd IPIS2024 in Göttingen, Germany #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Pls visit www.uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html Registration is free, deadline 30.06.24

#IPIS2024 speaker's intro: Dr. Hirofumi Nakagami Join us @ 3rd IPIS2024 in Göttingen, Germany #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Pls visit www.uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html Registration is free, deadline 30.06.24

#IPIS2024 speaker's intro Prof. Matthias Hahn Join us at the 3rd IPIS2024 in Göttingen, Germany #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Pls visit www.uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html Registration is free, deadline 30.06.24

#IPIS2024 speaker's intro Prof. Ralph Hückelhoven Join us at the 3rd IPIS2024 in Göttingen, Germany #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Pls visit uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html Registration is free, deadline 30.06.24

#IPIS2024 speaker's intro: Prof. Xin Li Join us at the 3rd IPIS 2024 in Göttingen, Germany. #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Please visit uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html Registration is free, deadline 30.06.2024

How about visiting Göttingen (Aug 26-28, 2024) and joining international experts in discussing #plantimmunity? Take a look at our program and join us at #IPIS2024. uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html Registration is open until June 30. Can participate with or without a poster presentation.

Excited to have @estukenbrock.bsky.social with an insightful talk about how microbial interactions contribute to pathogen defense in wheat leaves. Thanks for interacting with our #IRTG2172 PhD students Interested in #plantfungalinteractions? Register for #IPIS2024 uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html

We had a fantastic talk by Prof. Katrin Philippar about the structure and function of FAX fatty acid transport proteins in the light of land plant evolution Host: @ifeussner.bsky.social If you are curious to interact with our faculty #IRTG2172 Register for #IPIS2024 uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html

Florian Altegoer gave an insightful talk about the structure and function of fungal effector protein. Curious about plant-fungal interactions? Come join us at #IPIS2024. Register for #IPIS2024 by June 30, 2024 uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html

We started our #IRTG2172 summer seminar series with Prof. Kirsten Krause talking about variations of the interaction between parasitic dodders and their hosts. If you are interested in hearing more about parasitic plants, join us at #IPIS2024 uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html Aug 26-28, 2024

Are you interested in #PlantProtection? Join us at the 3rd IPIS 2024 in Göttingen, Germany. #Plantmicrobeinteractions #Effectorbiology #Fungalpathogenesis #Plantsignaling #Secondarymetabolites #Parasiticplants Please visit uni-goettingen.de/de/684252.html #IRTG2172 #IPIS2024 @ifeussner.bsky.social

It is amazing to hear from Prof. Jörg Kämper @kitkarlsruhe.bsky.social about crazy combinatorial gene regulation in Ustilago maydis to transition from saprophytic to biotrophic with a humorous example of the transition from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde. Hosted by Prof. Kai Heimel.

Last kisses to Gänselisel from our second cohort of students, Andrea Vasquez Chacon, Ishani Shankar Das, and Qiqi Yan. All the best for your future endeavors!! Our third cohort is on its way!!

It's a wrap! 😍🥳 With Ishani Shankar Das the last member of our second cohort successfully defended her PhD Thesis! 👩‍🎓🌱🥳Congratulations! Well done!👍🔥

Congratulations to our new PhD Ishani Shankar Das from the Polle group in our @irtgprotect.bsky.social

Yesterday it was Qiqi Yans turn! Congratulations on your great defense!😍🌱🥳👩‍🎓

Congratulations to our new PhD Qiqi Yan from the Wiermer group from our @irtgprotect.bsky.social

Congratulations to Andrea Vasquez Chacon from Volker Lipkas lab on her successful defense last friday! 🔥🥰👏🌱

I am very pleased that this wonderful piece of work is published in frame of our @irtgprotect.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-...

Congratulations to our new PhD Andrea Vasquez from the Lipka group in our @irtgprotect.bsky.social