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Aurélien is starting his permanent INRAE Research Director position at Institute Sophia Agrobiotech, Nizza, France, while remaining associated with UniKoeln!

June 2021: Sofia Somoza (M.Sc.) from Argentina has joined the group with a DAAD fellowship!

March 15th 2021: Dr. Tim Jobe from the US has joined the group!

December 2020: DFG Heisenberg program started!

June 2020: Habilitation / Venia legendi obtained!

XXVIIth Minisymposium Cancelled!

Unfortunately, the XXVIIth minisympsoium on Plant Biology, my colleagues and I spent time preparing was cancelled due to COVID-19.

Hopefully, we will get another chance to meet and hear these great invited speakers!

Jens's manuscript about the conservation of CWI-related RLKs during land plant evolution was accepted in Current Biology!

Full text of first version is available here:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704601v1

Our XXVIth Minisymposium is coming soon!

Our XXVth Minisymposium is coming soon!

January 10th 2019: Jens brillantly defended his PhD!

 

 

Christina's paper in The Plant Cell is now online!!

 

http://www.plantcell.org/content/early/2018/07/10/tpc.18.00284

https://plantae.org/recognizing-plant-cell-first-authors-christina-maria-franck/

 We also wish her best of luck for her postdoc in Cyril Zipfel's new lab at the University of Zürich.

 

Team Escape May 2018

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March 2018: proud to see our brand new review in Annual Review of Plant Biology.

 

Plant Malectin-Like Receptor Kinases: From Cell Wall Integrity to Immunity and Beyond.

 

Franck CM, Westermann J, Boisson-Dernier A.

Annu Rev Plant Biol. 2018 Mar 14.

doi: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042817-040557. 

January 15th 2018: Christina Maria Franck successfully defended her PhD!

December 2017: two nice collaborative papers accepted in Plant Cell & Science!

go check them out:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29150546 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29242232

 

September 2017: Last paper of the group online.

see it here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28936654