Sad to miss #ESEB2025, but check out work from our lab. The poster of Tom Winkler (P01.272) on repeated evolution under ecological selection during domestication tonight. And the talk of Margarita Takou on the detection of polygenic selection from time series data on Tuesday 15:30.

If you’re at #SMBE2025 and want to know how polygenic adaptation to different environmental change scenarios proceeds, go see PhD student Yuna Zhang from my lab presenting today 17:10-17:15 in Symposium 22 #quantgen

How can climate distribution models help to harness crop diversity? We look at recent advances in grain amaranth genomics and breeding to suggest how leveraging genetic diversity of underutilized crops could contribute to resilient and sustainable cropping systems. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Now published. Led by Dr. Akanksha Singh, we studied what happened to grain amaranth once it arrived to India. Surprisingly differentiation stayed high and populations adapted individually. No gene flow, high diversity.

Talking Biotech 459 - where did the key domestication mutations in corn come from? Were they present in resident gene pools waiting to be selected, or new mutations? I discuss with @jrossibarra and his student Regina Fairbanks. @aspb @ASHS_Hort @UF_IFAS share.transistor.fm/s/bed2ffa6

Forza CEPLAS 3!

New preprint from the lab: 'Domestication shaped the chromatin landscape of grain amaranth'. #domestication #chromatin #amaranth www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cologne Spring Meeting starts with “Plant Ecological Genetics: From Lab to Nature and Back” talk by @meauxjuliette.bsky.social Exploring the bridge between laboratory insights and real-world plant ecology. #EcologicalGenetics #PlantScience

Our work on selection and how it shaped the diversity of European maize landraces is now published. Read for diversity changes not following expansion routes but climatic gradients, & genetic load accumulation. With @mgstetter.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The 2025 maize genetics meeting is over. Looking forward to having the 2026 maize meeting from Feb 26 to March 1 in Cologne (Köln), Germany 🇩🇪. Please already mark your calendars. #MGM2025 > #MGM2026.

Today we celebrate a wide diversity in plant sciences at the Symposium of our institute at @unicologne.bsky.social with support from @ceplas.bsky.social & @trr341.bsky.social #PlantScience

I’m very happy to share that I will start as associate professor for plant ecological genomics at the University of Cologne in January 2024. Huge thanks to my great team, mentors, collaborators and everyone who helped to make this happen!