Caroline Marcon and Frank Hochholdinger received the cooperator award of the Maize Genetics Cooperation1
Frank Hochholdinger, professor for Crop Functional Genomics at the INRES and Carolin Marcon, project leader of the BonnMu group, were honored with the 2025 Maize Genetics Cooperator Award by the Maize Genetics Cooperation at the 67th maize genetics conference in St. Louis, USA.
67th maize genetics conference in St. Louis2
Members of the Crop Functional Genomics group attended the 67th maize genetics meeting in St. Louis, USA from 6-8, March 2025.
Marion Pitz and Frank Hochholdinger gave a presentation at Bayer, St. Louis3
Before the start of the 67th maize genetics conference Marion Pitz and Frank Hochholdinger gave a presentation of their work at the Bayer site in Chesterfield.
SPP meeting in Leipzig4
Xiaoming He presented his work at the final meeting of the SPP2089 „Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organization - a key to rhizosphere function“.
DMK and DBG awards for Cay Schäfer5
Cay Schäfer was awarded the DMK (Deutsches Maiskomitee) Prize for Young Scientists 2024 for her master's thesis “Crosstalk between the micronutrient boron and the phytohormone auxin on the level of polar auxin transport during primary root development of maize (Zea mays)”. In addition, her master thesis was selected as best master thesis in Plant Sciences at the University of Bonn by the DBG (Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft).
Congratulations to Emmy Noether group leader Peng Yu for his appointment as professor at TU Munich6
Peng Yu was today appointed professor for Plant Genetics at the TU Munich School of Life Sciences. We are very proud of you!
Faculty prize for Danning Wang7
Congratulations to Danning for receiving the faculty prize for the best thesis in plant science.
Congratulations to Yan Naing Win for successfully passing his PhD exam8
Yan worked on the development of the BonnMu transposon resource in maize and functionally charactized one of the BonnMu root mutants.
Links
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news/2025-maize-genetics-cooperation-award
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news/67th-maize-genetics-conference-in-st-louis
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news/marion-pitz-and-frank-hochholdinger-gave-a-presentation-at-bayer-st-louis
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news/spp-meeting-in-leipzig
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news/dmk-and-dbg-awards-for-cay-schafer
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news/congatulations-to-peng-yu
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news/faculty-prize-for-danning-wang
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news/congratulations-to-yan-naing-win-for-successfully-passing-his-phd-exam
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news?b_start:int=8
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news?b_start:int=16
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news?b_start:int=24
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news?b_start:int=32
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news?b_start:int=40
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news?b_start:int=48
- https://www.inres.uni-bonn.de/cfg/en/c-f-g/news?b_start:int=112