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COMMUNICATING SCIENCE
(03/2023)
In the column "Wissensdrang", which appears on RP online under the heading "Meinung", Prof. Dr. Petra Bauer (Institute of Botany) and Prof. Dr. Nicole Teusch (Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology) will alternate with philosopher Maria-Sibylla Lotter on scientific topics from March 2023.
Petra Bauer sees her public task in this way: "We need to explain science from our perspective."
Further information on RP online.
Sequel 1 > Stadtpflanzen im Klimawandel
Sequel 2 > Lernen vom Sellerie
JOINT GERMAN-INDIAN DAAD-RESEARCH PROJECT
(02/23)
Warm welcome to our collaboration partner Professor Sanjib Kumar Panda from Central University of Rajasthan in India!
Professor Panda is a CEPLAS visiting guest professor in the Institute of Botany (February and March 2023). He uses biotechnology, functional genomics and genome editing to investigate and improve abiotic stress responses in the important crop species rice, chickpea, mungbean and pigeon pea.
One of the topics studied in his group is tolerance of rice to acidic soils to reduce aluminum and iron toxicity, wide-spread in North-Eastern parts of India (see our recent joint publication Kar et al. 2021). Another focus of his research is to improve abiotic stress tolerance of pulse legume crops grown in Rajasthan and widely used in India as highly nutritious food source. Recently, we obtained a joint German-Indian DAAD-DST travel grant to study iron nutrition properties and biofortification of pigeon pea.
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NRW SCIENCE MINISTER ON A VISIT
(02/23)
Ina Brandes, Minister of Science in NRW, visited Heinrich Heine University on February 10, 2022, to learn about current CEPLAS research projects in the field of plant research, among other things. On this occasion, Mary Ngigi, participant of the CEPLAS Graduate School, also presented her research topic, similar to what she had already done at Soapbox Science in August 2022.
See also: https://www.ceplas.eu/en/about-us/news/news-detail/nrw-minister-of-science-at-ceplas/
More informationen at HHU-News.
PLANTER'S PUNCH
(01/23)
Under the heading "Planter's Punch" each month members of the CEPLAS Graduate School or CEPLAS Postdoc Programme present special aspects of their CEPLAS research programme.
> Check out our latest #PlantersPunch by PhD student Mary @njerii_ on iron acquisition and allocation in plants! <
A SMALL PLANT BECOMES A STAR ...
(11/22)
Public debates on climate change and recent environmental disasters such as floods and forest fires have drawn attention to current environmental changes, which include ecosystem transformation, among many other aspects. It is obvious that in such circumstances, biodiversity is at stake.
This "Citizen Science" project aims to involve schoolchildren, students, educational institutions and interested citizens in monitoring wild plants, their characteristics and their distribution. The aim is to observe plants, collect data on habitat of origin, plant phenotypes and distribution, and provide material for genomic DNA and PCR-based genotyping data.
This will raise awareness and understanding of the importance of plants to ecosystem functioning, the various challenges and threats that plants face in the face of rapid anthropogenic change, and, in particular, the role that genetics plays in plant adaptation to these changing environments.
"Arabidopsis thaliana", the Arabidopsis thaliana, is the model plant of molecular biology:
"Eine kleine Pflanze wird zum Star für Bürgerwissenschaft"
Autoren: Petra Bauer, Bruno A. Walther (Institut für Botanik, HHU)
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