News

Amaya and Alexis will be representing the lab at the Rooting 2017 meeting in Umeå (Sweden). Both are very much looking forward to a super exciting meeting and meeting with colleagues and friends. 

Alexis will be giving a keynote lecture during the 3rd Labex SIGNALIFE
 Meeting in Nice (France) on May 9th 2017.

 The german research foundation (DFG) has created the creation of  a nation wide research consortium to elucidate the mechanisms by which plants organs acquire their specific shape. This multidisciplinary consortium called FOR2581: Morphodynamics of plants  is established for an initial period of 3 years and is coordinated by Alexis Maizel.  The RU2581 will receive DFG funding in the amount of approx. 2.7 million euros. The research unit RU2581 consists of nine expert laboratories from Heidelberg, Cologne, Munich and Göttingen with experts in the fields of plant development, computer sciences and physics.

In Heidelberg, the laboratories of Thomas Greb and Jan Lohmann both located at the Center for Organismal Studies as well as the laboratory of Fred Hamprecht from the Center for Scientific Computing are part of this consortium. In Cologne, are also members: the labs of Miltos Tsiantis, Richard Smith and Angela Hay all located at the Max Planck Institute for plant breeding. Finally, the labs of Kay Schneitz from the TU Munich and Karen Alim from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen are completing the line up.

We are all very excited by the joint work ahead of us.

Link to the press release of the DFG (in german)

Paola, Amaya and Alexis as well as our COS colleagues Christophe (Lohmann lab)  and Borja (Wolf lab) participated to the Weinheim Altstadtlauf. We had great weather and a lot of fun during 10km. The running virus is spreading through the lab…

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Alexis will be present in Elche (Spain) on March 15-17 for the very nice  Plant Organ Growth Symposium 2017  organised by José Luis Micol, Dirk Inzé and Nathalie Gonzalez.

Looking forward to this trip not only because sun will be there 😉 but also because the science we will hear will be one more time terrific.

Martin successfully defended his Master thesis! Congratulations.

Alexis will be in Japan at the CSH Asia meeting “Latest Advances in Plant Development & Environmental Response”

Nov. 29th – Dec 3rd 2016

Alexis will be present at the Auxin 2016 meeting in Sanya (China) Oct. 20th-25th

The Maizel lab has ventured in climbing trees! One can work on roots and be open minded 🙂
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Mouli’s protocols for whole mount detection of small RNAs has been published in Plant Journal. The paper had also been on BioArxiv  before publication.