Prof. Xuemei Chen from UC Riverside visited the lab and the institute. She gave a wonderful lecture on small RNAs turnover in plants.
News
Symposium on Plant-Environment interactions
Mouli and Andrea presented their work at the Hengstberger Symposium on plant/environment interactions.
Botanical Microscopy meeting
Alexis will be in Exeter (UK) to present our work on light sheet microscopy during the meeting of the Royal Society for Microscopy.
Thesis defense
Daniel von Wangenheim successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulation Dr. von Wangenheim! Keep up with the good science at the IST (Austria).
EMBO Practical Course on Live Imaging of Plants
Amaya, Daniel and Alexis will be running the show next week at EMBL for the first EMBO Practical Course on Live Imaging of Plants.
New paper
Our joint work with the Vaucheret lab showing that decapping prevents endogenous mRNA to enter silencing and therefore producing rogue siRNAs has just been published. And it is Open Access (Martinez et al. NAR 2015)