PEER REVIEW SYSTEM

(11/23)

Our first experience with the peer review system from Review Commons. The revised preprint and rebuttal letter are now available online - https://www.biorxiv.org/conRewietent/10.1101/2022.12.20.520918v3#review.

In this refereed preprint, we show that the plant protein FIT (an essential regulator and transcription factor for iron acquisition in plants) can regroup and assemble with other active FIT molecules and its partner transcription factor bHLH039 to form nuclear bodies in the cell nucleus. Ksenia discovered this phenomenon initially during a small Master module project to learn fluorescence microscopy. At that time, she had observed that fluorescent FIT-GFP fusion protein formed discrete spots in the nucleus after the cells were exposed to a blue light trigger. Ksenia was interested in this curiosity and over the years she applied very elegantly an different confocal microscopy techniques to investigate the properties and potential function of the FIT spots, which she found to be condensates with a very dynamic behavior.

PARLAMENTARISCHES FRÜHSTÜCK

(10/23)

Zur Förderung des Dialogs zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik findet im Landtag NRW regelmäßig das Parlamentarische Frühstück statt.

Am 27.10.2023 trafen sich die CEPLAS-Mitglieder Petra Bauer, Maria von Korff-Schmising und Rüdiger Simon mit etwa 20 Abgeordneten im Landtag. Die Diskussion an diesem Morgen drehte sich um die Zukunft der Landwirtschaft.

Siehe auch CEPLAS