📚 Within the last three years, our postdocs have contributed to more than 50 publications! This outstanding achievement highlights their essential role in advancing CEPLAS research and shaping the future of plant science. 👏🌱✨ #PostdocAppreciationWeek #ResearchExcellence #CEPLAS

@forscherrobert.bsky.social from @leibnizipk.bsky.social explained how his research team used genome editing to replicate wild mutations found in East Asian barley, successfully transferring virus resistance to European breeding lines. 🌾🛡 #GiveGenesAChance

Professor @apmweber.bsky.social, our project coordinator from @hhu.de talked about how to improve water use efficiency in maize through genome editing. 🌽 He pointed out that the EU should allow gene editing to make organic farming more sustainable: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

🌍 Our current postdocs come from 15 countries - bringing diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas. This diversity is a key strength of our community and enriches our research every day. We’re proud of this global team! 💡🌱 #PostdocAppreciationWeek #DiversityInScience #CEPLAS

🌟 It’s Postdoc Appreciation Week! 🌟 We are proud to currently have 33 postdocs at CEPLAS driving our projects forward with their expertise, creativity, and dedication! 🌱 #PostdocAppreciationWeek #PlantScience @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @leibnizipk.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de

I am thrilled &honoured, what a journey that was! Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors. With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)

📢📢 We are hiring!! We are looking for a coordinator for science communication and a project manager! www.ceplas.eu/de/nachwuchs...

Job Coordinator position: Science Communication #SciComm In Excellence Cluster @ceplas.bsky.social "SMART Plants for Tomorrow’s Needs" @hhu.de ‬ www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

DFG sucht zum 01.01.2026 Wissenschaftsmanager (m/w/d) im Bereich Pflanzenwissenschaften. dfg.concludis.de/prj/shw/5218...

How amino acids are transported in plants | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... @hhu.de @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social

"Pflanzen sind die besten Chemiker der Welt", sagt John D'Auria vom @leibnizipk.bsky.social im Podcast querFELDein des @zalf.bsky.social. Mit Manuela Nagel erklärt er dort nicht nur das Projekt "Obi von Knobi", sondern auch, wie es zun dem Namen kam. Reinhören lohnt!!! ➡️https://tinyurl.com/yup3n7d

In silico encounters: Harnessing metabolic modelling to understand plant-microbe interactions #FEMS Microbiol Rev by Martina Feierabend and Nadine Töpfer @ceplas.bsky.social academic.oup.com/femsre/advan...

✈️ Summer travel plans? Great! But maybe leave that cute cactus or mystery seed behind 🌵🛑 Bringing plants into the EU without a phytosanitary certificate can cause big plant health problems. Read more from @plants4thefuture.bsky.social: www.plantetp.eu/wp-content/u... #PlantHealth #TravelTips

Is plant single cell/nuc. & spatial transcriptomics your passion? Do you want to understand plant adaptation using cutting edge molecular & bioinformatics tools? Then come and join us to work together with @ceplas.bsky.social & @wggc-de.bsky.social. #plantjobs www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Please RT: We are hiring 📣! We are looking for a coordinator of our CEPLAS Graduate School! If you are interested in working in an international and dynamic academic environment with highly motivated and talented ECRs, check out the details here: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac...

🎤🧑‍🌾🌾 Benjamin Menn, joint PhD student at the labs of Antonio Molina (CBGP) and Markus Pauly (HHU, @ceplas.bsky.social), also shared his research on sustainable crop protection solutions.🌾 #CropProtection #Agroecology

Today at #2025ISMPMI and up for some chat over root colonization patterns and the role of oxidative stress? We show how the spatial patterns of ROS shape the cell differentiation of B. subtilis. Our work at Grossmann Lab @hhu.de up on poster P429 - @ceplas.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social

Awesome to see next generation of group leaders from @earlhaminst.bsky.social presenting at #2025ISMPMI 👏

Our latest article in bioRxiv. A very good and comprehensive paper by Mathias Brands, Vicente Ramirez, Laura Armbruster et al. on the deconstruction of acetylated xylan in symbiosis. If you would like to learn more, please talk to Mathias at #2025ISMPMI, poster P-239. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Enjoying TEAM scientific discussions at the #2025ISMPMI.

Great to see two teams from the Plant Science and #QBIO communities making it to the podium at yesterday’s HHU Ideas Competition by #CEDUS! 🌱🧠 Exciting projects and well deserved — very curious to watch these ideas grow! 🚀👏 @healthycrops.bsky.social @plantgen-hhu.bsky.social

Das @leibnizipk.bsky.social ist neuer Partner im Exzellenzcluster @ceplas.bsky.social. Wie er von der Entscheidung erfahren hat, was mit den Partnern geplant ist und was junge Forscherinnen und Forscher davon haben, erläutert Nicolaus von Wirén im Interview. ➡️Alles Infos: tinyurl.com/4k5p7s6c

🎊Double congrats!! 1️⃣great science and 2️⃣ a really beautiful cover picture🌹! And actually, a third round of congratulations for that amazing cake 😋

Pflanzen, Forschung & ein bisschen Campusgeschichte! Gestern waren wir unterwegs auf einer kleinen Zeitreise durch die Pflanzenforschung @hhu.de . Von Gewächshausern bis zu Hightech-Gebäuden: viel hat sich getan in den letzten Jahren! Danke an alle, die mit uns auf Entdeckungstour waren! 💚

This was the sixth year in a row that CEPLAS, ML4Q, and CECAD @cecad.bsky.social came together to organize Soapbox Science Rheinland to promote science communication and inclusive research culture. Fotos: Nicolas Stumpe @soapboxsciencerhld.bsky.social @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social #scicomm

On Saturday, we celebrated the 6th edition of Soapbox Science Rheinland in the heart of the city! Huge thank-you to our CEPLAS speakers Jana Peter, Ganiyat Akinade and Zarah Sorger @zarizarah.bsky.social for bringing plant science to the public and showing how exciting research can be!

Congrats!!🎊🎉

Mutate or keep it classic? In our new #PlantersPunch, PhD student Laura Randarevitch explains how plants roll with the punches – sometimes by changing, sometimes by staying exactly the same! #scicomm #wisskomm bit.ly/3GhYWG4

Excited to have two fantastic speakers here today at our CEPLAS Friday seminar: Paula Duque from @gimmfoundation.bsky.social and Jane Parker from @mpipz.bsky.social @parkergroup.bsky.social! Great boost of inspiration to take with us into the summer break ☀️

Der Klimawandel stellt uns vor viele Herausforderungen – eine ist die Sicherung der Lebensmittelversorgung. Wie können wir Nutzpflanzen widerstandsfähiger gegenüber Hitze, Trockenheit und extremen Wetterereignissen machen, um die globale Ernährungssicherheit auch zukünftig zu gewährleisten? 1/3

1/7 I am very excited to announce our🌹NEW PAPER OUT IN 𝑁𝐴𝑇𝑈𝑅𝐸!🌹 𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐄: Bimodal centromeres in pentaploid dogroses shed light on their unique meiosis With the Ritz and Kovařík labs we show a potential role for centromeres on 𝘙𝘰𝘴𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘢 bizarre reproduction! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Speaker introduction. Let’s introduce our seventh speaker JANA PETER from the @hhu.de @ceplas.bsky.social who will give an inspiring talk at our #soapboxscience event in 1 week! 📅Saturday, June 28 📍Rheinpromenade, Düsseldorf #womeninstem #womeninscience #soapboxscience

Happy to share our last preprint where we discovered a two step mechanism for the release of the maize signaling peptide Zip1. A “two - factor authentication”. Enjoy the reading! 👇

Together with @ceplas.bsky.social we are planing a panel discussion in German about the applications of plant research in withstanding climate change at the "Haus der Universität" in Düsseldorf. Students, citizen scientists and all interested people are welcome to attend!

Congratulations, Miltos!!🎊 Well-deserved!

If you'd like to see how we link #PlanMicrobeInteraction research from #lab to #field, and from individual 🌱🦠 in controlled systems, to the field- where we 👀 at #roots, full #microbiomes, and #soil in the #field, stop by poster 311 today. #Rhizosphere6 🧪 #PlantScience #SoilHealth

Im Sommer auf einer Seifenkiste: Bei Soapbox Science erklären Wissenschaftlerinnen* ihre Arbeit in der Öffentlichkeit – in diesem Jahr am 28. Juni in Düsseldorf @cecad.bsky.social, am 5. Juli in München @www.helmholtz-munich.de @maxplanck.de @tum.de und am 26. Juli in Tübingen @ceplas.bsky.social.

Last week, our latest @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint was released, a joint-venture of @antonkraege.bsky.social & @wolki95.bsky.social and co-directed by @nicksnelders.bsky.social a 🧵

Speaker introduction. Let’s introduce our first speaker ZARAH SORGER from the @unicologne.bsky.social and @ceplas.bsky.social who will give an inspiring talk at our #soapboxscience event in 3 weeks! 📅Saturday, June 28 📍Rheinpromenade, Düsseldorf #womeninstem #womeninscience #soapboxscience

Am 7. Juli laden wir ein ins Haus der Universität, wenn beim Thema „Grüne Helden" Wissenschaftler*innen von CEPLAS und TRR341 über ihre Forschung berichten! Infos und Anmeldung: bit.ly/3T94o0B @trr341.bsky.social @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @teambuergeruni.bsky.social @hcsd.bsky.social

🗓️Im Juli haben wir gleich zwei spannende Veranstaltungen für euch! Am 3. Juli machen wir bei einem Campus Spaziergang eine (Zeit)Reise durch die Pflanzenforschung an der HHU. Weitere Infos und Anmeldung👉: www.ceplas.eu/de/ueber-uns... #scicomm @hhu.de @teambuergeruni.bsky.social @hcsd.bsky.social

🌱 CEPLAS ECRs on Tour! Today, a group of our early career researchers is visiting BASF | Nunhems to gain first-hand insights into the "real-world" plant breeding business. Great opportunity to connect science with practice and explore career paths beyond academia!

In our latest #PlantersPunch issue PhD student Laura Merx @laurame.bsky.social explains in a podcast together with David Spencer @davidspencer.bsky.social how bacteria can help us feed the world! #scicomm @jomivi.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social bit.ly/4mBMgtU

🎉Celebrating five Clusters of Excellence! Congratulations to our Clusters: @cecad.bsky.social for aging research🧬, @ceplas.bsky.social for plant sciences🌱, @econtribute.bsky.social for economics, ML4Q for quantum research⚛️ and 🆕DYNAVERSE for astrophysics🌌 Read more ➡️https://uni.koeln/2AKU3

🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social

Mark your calendars, we’ll be back next year May 18-20, 2026! @dice.hhu.de @richtigerniklas.bsky.social

🎉🎊We had 2 fantastic Pint of Science Days #pint25DE in Düsseldorf! Thanks a lot to all our speakers, volunteers and participants! Already looking forward to next year! @nomascus.bsky.social @mngigi.bsky.social @kevintang.org

Congrats, Miltos!!

Bahn statt Auto? Beim #PintOfScience in Düsseldorf zeigt Phil Klotz, wie das #Deutschlandticket die Mobilität verändert hat. Jetzt noch schnell Karten für den 20. Mai sichern und ab in die Kneipe! Details & Tickets hier 👇 pintofscience.de/event/event-...

Letzte Tickets gibt es hier ▶️ bit.ly/44u24Iz Seid dabei bei spannender Wissenschaft mit Bier und Barhocker! 🍻 @pintofscience.de @hhu.de @teambuergeruni.bsky.social