Aurélien is starting his permanent INRAE Research Director position at Institute Sophia Agrobiotech, Nizza, France, while remaining associated with UniKoeln!
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June 2021: Sofia Somoza (M.Sc.) from Argentina has joined the group with a DAAD fellowship!
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March 15th 2021: Dr. Tim Jobe from the US has joined the group!
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December 2020: DFG Heisenberg program started!
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June 2020: Habilitation / Venia legendi obtained!
XXVIIth Minisymposium Cancelled!
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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!
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Full text of first version is available here:
Our XXVIth Minisymposium is coming soon!
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Our XXVth Minisymposium is coming soon!
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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