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We invite to the lecture given by Prof. Dr. Korbinian Schneeberger, LMU Biocampus, Computational Genetics, Munich, Germany. Title:  “Using computational genetics to study plant genomes” Time:         Thursday , October 5th 2023, 2:15 PM Location:   Lecture Hall C, Staudtstr. 5, 91058 Er...

134. VDLUFA congress in Freising: From 5th to 8th of September 2023, the Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf (HSWT) hosted the 134. congress of the Vereinigung deutscher landwirtschaftlicher Forschungs- und Untersuchungsanstalten (VDLUFA) in Freising, Germany. Alexander Kaier, PhD student in our Bio...

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...

Efficient sugar utilization and transition from oxidative to substrate-level phosphorylation in high starch storage roots of African cassava genotypes Cassava's storage roots represent one of the most important sources of nutritional carbohydrates worldwide. Particularly, smallholder farmers in sub...

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...

On February 16th, 2023, the pupils of the 10f of the secondary school in Herzogenaurach came to our chair for an information and experimentation day. The students have chosen the science branch at their school. The exchange was initiated by a former employee, Julia Lorenz, who now teaches biology an...

We invite to the lecture by Prof. Dr. Michael Knoblauch from the School of Biological Sciences Washington State University, Pullman, USA.   “New insights on plasmodesma structure function – complex nanostructures with fundamental impacts on plant physiology” Time:             Tuesd...

On February 11, 2023, numerous graduates of the final year 2022, together with their families, accepted the invitation from the Department of Biology. Over 300 guests attended the event and the presentation of the certificates in lecture hall H11 on Cauerstrasse. The band "Saxophone Connection" unde...

This beautiful photo was submitted by Julia Eydam to the "Blattgeflüster" Photo Contest. Julia does research at the Chair of Biochemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen. Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Uwe Sonnewald works here with various crops such as cassava, sugar beet and po...

Markus Ingold, a master student from the Biocomputing Lab, recently returned from a three-month research internship at the North Dakota State University (NDSU). In the group of Dr. Brent Hulke (Sunflower Biology, US Department of Agriculture), he performed genome-wide association studies (GWAS) o...