Author: Alfred Schmiedl

The future of plant breeding: PhD student participates in workshop How can we breed crops as efficient as possible to sustain food supply in the future? To investigate this research question, Alexander Kaier, PhD student in our Biocomputing Lab, participated in the annual work shop in genomic predi...

Viktoriya Vasina came to visit the Biochemistry Chair from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. She is a 5th year PhD candidate in the Knoblauch lab, which focuses on studying phloem transport. The topic of her research is identifying proteins that are present in sieve element organe...

After pandemic years were no annual works outing was possible we gathered in the green hills near Ebermannstadt for a hiking tour which lead us on a 6 mile long Planet trail. We enjoyed a great barbecue event at the Sonnewald home in the evening.

Luisa Becker, a master student from the Biocomputing lab, is at the Colorado University (CU) in Boulder, CO, USA for a three-month research internship right now. In Boulder, Luisa is working in Prof. Dr. Nolan Kane’s lab (Department for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), and she tries to better unde...

Sindy Gutschker, one of Biocomputing Lab PhD students, is for a six weeklong research period at the Boyce-Thompson-Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. In the US, Sindy will learn new methods from the fields of genomics, transcriptomics, bioinformatics. The main goal of her research at...