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A worm bites of enough to chew
Tübingen, Germany, June 30th, 2010.
Max Planck researchers have uncovered an ingenious evolutionary trick: a signalling chain is allocated several functions, enabling optimal adaptation to environmental conditions.
Biologist from Tübingen has been elected into the French Academy of Sciences
Tübingen, June 10th, 2010.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, director at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology has been elected into the French Academy of Sciences.
No free lunch in nature either – the dilemma of plants fighting infections
Tübingen, June 3rd, 2010.
Scientists from Tübingen reveal an
evolutionary dilemma: plants that are more resistant to disease grow
more slowly and are less competitive than susceptible relatives when
enemies are rare.
More about the dilemma of plants...
„Nothing else matters - but the colors“
Tübingen, June 1st, 2010.
The Max Planck House is showing paintings of Ingrid Krüger.
The full text is only available in German language. Please click on the following link...
Plant biologist elected to the Royal Society of London
Tübingen. May 21st 2010.
Detlef Weigel, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, is one of eight foreign members who have been elected to the Royal Society of London this year.
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An island as a reflection of the world
Tübingen, May 19, 2010.
Réunion is to Ralf Sommer and Matthias
Herrmann from the Max Plank Institute for Developmental Biology in
Tübingen what the Galápagos Islands were to Charles Darwin. The island
in the Indian Ocean is where the biologists are studying biological
diversity with the help of a very unremarkable creature: the nematode.
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How plants adapt to environmental changes
Tübingen, 18th May, 2010.
Two biologists from Tübingen are involved in a new DFG priority program.
More information about "How plants adapt to environmental changes" (only in German language)...
„BeGrenzen" - Experiments with Art
Tübingen, April 20, 2010.
The Max Planck House is showing art work from Helga Mayer.
More information about the exhibition (only in German language)....
Girls’ Day: The fascinating world of research
Tübingen, March, 18th 2010.
At the Max Planck Campus in Tübingen girls turn into scientists and boys into service providers in the kitchen and administration.
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How plants put down roots
Tübingen, March 15, 2010.
Tübingen-based developmental geneticists research organ development in the plant embryo.
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MAMU: Werkausschnitt
Tübingen, February 22nd, 2010.
An art exhibition at the Max Planck Campus Tübingen.
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Detlef Weigel receives Otto Bayer Prize 2010
Tübingen, Leverkusen, February 11, 2010.
Director
at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen is
honored for his work in the field of plant genetics / His results allow
predictions on how wild as well as agricultural plants will adapt to
climate change.
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The roots of food security
Tübingen, January 26, 2010.
Max Planck Scientists discovered how certain hormones control aspects of root branching in plants.
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Nino Shervashidze wins Outstanding Student Paper Award
Tübingen, Germany, January 25, 2010.
Nino Shervashidze received one of the
most prestigious awards in Machine Learning, the NIPS Outstanding
Student Paper Award 2009.
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"Abstrakt" - An Art Exhibitition
Tübingen, January 11, 2010.
Art Exhibition on the Max Planck Campus Tübingen.
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Micro RNAs make Genes shut up
Freiburg, Tübingen, January 8, 2010.
German researchers have discovered a novel mechanism for gene regulation.
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2009
Evolution caught in the act
US-German team measures how quickly genomes change
Tübingen and Bloomington, December 31, 2009. Scientists at the Max Planck
Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, and Indiana
University in Bloomington have now been able to measure for the first
time directly the speed with which new mutations occur in plants. Their
findings shed new light on a fundamental evolutionary process. They
explain, for example, why resistance to herbicides can appear within
just a few years. Read press release: Evolution caught in the act...
Detlef Weigel receives Otto-Bayer-Preis 2010
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Tübingen based researchers are leading the developmental and plant biology within the German-speaking science community.
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Jürgen Berger and Mahendra Sonawane won the Focus Photo Contest
Their image of two-day-old zebrafish larvae convinced the jury.
Tübingen, October 12, 2009. The scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, are using zebrafish larvae to study the development of organs in embryos.
Open House at the Max Planck Campus Tübingen
On Saturday, October 17th, 2009, from 2 pm the Max Planck Institutes of Developmental Biology and biological Cybernetics will open their doors and present their research highlights.
Biologists, biochemists, geneticists, chemists, physicists, computer scientists and psychologists are presenting their research in guided tours, talks, and childrens experiments. Find out more about the program...
Mirror carp with gene in reserve
A duplicated gene provides the mirror carp with a back-up copy that protects against the effects of mutations and ensures sparse squamation.
Tübingen, September 3, 2009. Thanks to its
good flavour, lack of scales and high back that fills the plate, the
mirror carp has been a popular food fish for millennia. Scientists at
the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen have now
uncovered the secret behind a component of its domestication – the lack
of scales. The phenomenon is explained by a gene duplication. While one
copy of a gene, which is required for many different functions, is
mutated and therefore causes the scale reduction seen in the mirror
carp, the intact copy guarantees the fish’s survival. Read press release "Mirror carp with gene in reserve"...
Motivation impetus for researcher on bacteria
Dirk Linke (37) has been awarded the Advancement Award of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie, DGHM)
Tübingen, August 27, 2009. The Advancement Award includes prize money of 2,500 Euro and is annually conferred on a junior scientist excelling in innovative research approaches and achieving excellent scientific results. The prize money is intended to motivate further research in the field of hygiene and microbiology. Read more about "Motivation impetus for researcher on bacteria"...
The blossoms of maturity
A newly discovered signaling pathway ensures that plants remember to flower – even without positive signals from the environment.
Tübingen, August 21, 2009. Plants normally flower in response to seasonal changes, such as those associated with the end of winter or beginning of spring. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology have now identified a signaling pathway that allows plants to blossom even without positive signals from the environment. The concentration of a small RNA snippet in plants cells operates like an hour glass: a decline in its level awakes the plant from its vegetative dormancy and allows it to enter the reproductive mode (Cell, August 21, 2009). Read press release "The blossoms of maturity"...
Getting to the bottom of rice
Global rice research community provides critical tools to unravel the diversity of rice
Tübingen, July 13, 2009. By looking at what different types of rice have in common, a team of international scientists is unlocking rice’s genetic diversity to help conserve it and find valuable rice genes to help improve rice production. Read press release "Getting to the bottom of rice"...
Benjamin Schlager receives the PhD award of the German Society for Developmental Biology
Benjamin Schlager, PhD student in Ralf Sommers group at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, received the prize for his studies on the development of the nematode vulva.
The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory celebrates forty years of successful research
Tübingen, June 30, 2009. The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory (FML) on the Max Planck Campus in Tübingen celebrates its fortieth anniversary on the 3rd of July 2009. The FML was named after the Swiss physician and biologist Friedrich Miescher, who discovered the DNA 140 years ago in Tübingen. Renowned scientists, among them Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, worked at the FML. Currently, four junior research groups at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory investigate how the genetic information is encoded on the DNA and faithfully inherited. More about the FML anniversary...
International honour for two Tübingen Max Planck researchers
Detlef Weigel and Nikos Logothetis have been elected to the American National Academy of Sciences
Tübingen, 29th April 2009. Detlef Weigel, director of the
Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for
Developmental Biology, and Nikos Logothetis, director of the Department
of Neurophysiology at the neighbouring Max Planck Institute for
Biological Cybernetics, have been elected to the US National Academy of
Sciences. Read press release "International honour for two Tübingen Max Planck researchers"...
Wildlife and other natural subjects in Ink, watercolor and acrylic - an exhibition by Kirsten Bomblies
Read press release about the exhibition by Kirsten Bomblies (only in German)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center opened on the Max Planck Campus Tübingen
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology are on the scent of the structure of proteins and nucleic acids
Tübingen, March 16th, 2009. A center for molecular nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has been established on the Max Planck Campus in Tübingen. Read press release "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center opened on the Max Planck Campus Tübingen"....
Arabidopsis provides new clues for curing neurodegenerative illnesses
A genetic defect in the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana proves to be a viable model for studying the basic principles of neurodegenerative illnesses.
February 16, 2009. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, have discovered a genetic defect in Arabidopsis thaliana that leads to serious neurodegenerative illnesses in humans. Read press release on Arabidopsis (only in German)
Parasites in the genome
A molecular parasite could play an important role in human evolution
January 19, 2009. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, determined the structure of a protein (L1ORF1p), which is encoded by a parasitic genetic element and which is responsible for its mobility. Read press release "Parasites in the genome"...
Novel findings on the evolution of parasitism
Scientists discover a conserved signaling module controlling the formation of dauer or infective larvae in nematodes
January 13, 2009. Analyzing the chemical signaling pathways the Tübingen scientists detected an evolutionarily conserved module which controls the fate of the worm larvae. Thus they found the first indication that infective larvae originally evolved from dauer larvae (Current Biology, January 13, 2009). Read press release "Novel findings on the evolution of parasitism"...
2008
Uncovering secrets of life in the ocean
November 20, 2008
Researchers unravel how the very first eyes in evolution might have
worked and how they guide the swimming of marine plankton towards light
Read press release: Uncovering secrets of life in the ocean
Max Planck Campus and University of Tübingen are intesifying their cooperation within the life science departments
November 4, 2008
A syposium and a "Faculty Club" shall support networking and bundle strengths
Read press release: Max Planck Campus and University of Tübingen are inensifying their cooperation (only in German)
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard was elected Mercator-Professorin 2008
October 30, 2008
The first German female scientist to win the nobel prize for medicine is now Mercator Professor 2008 at the University Duisburg-Essen: Biologist Prof. Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (66). She is renowned for her research on genetic control of embryonic development.
Read press release: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard was elected Mercator-Professorin 2008 (only in German)
Microcosms go Textile - Art Exhibition at the Max Planck Campus Tübingen
October 27, 2008
From October 27th to December 19th the Max Planck Guest House is showing the textile artwork of Gisela Weigand. In her exhibition "Textilbilder" she is showing her large-sized collages that were inspired by biological structures.
Read press release: Microcosms go Textile - Art Exhibition at the Max Planck Campus Tübingen
Clever architecture - structure of a cellular fuel pipeline decoded
October 27, 2008
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the Max Planck Institutes of Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen), Biochemistry (Martinsried), Developmental Biology (Tübingen) and Biological Cybernetics (Tübingen) has described the structure of an essential transport channel in the power stations of our cells - the mitochondria. This channel is not only used to transport engergy and metabolites into the cells, but also to issue a suizide order. The results obtained in this study allow new insights into the functionality of these protein channels. This channel could be an important target point for new drugs that may cure autoimmune diseases as well as neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer or cancer. (PNAS, 7. Oktober 2008)
Read press release: Clever architecture - structure of a cellular fuel pipeline (in German only)
Gates Foundation Invests in 106 Novel Ideas for Global Health
October 23, 2008
Scientists from Diverse Set of Disciplines and Regions Receive $100,000 Each to Explore Bold, Untested Projects
Read press release: Gates Foundation Invests in 106 Novel Ideas for Global Health
Sequencing thousand and one genomes
September 29, 2008
Researchers report the simultaneous completion
of the first genomes of wild Arabidopsis thaliana strains as part of
the 1001 Genomes Project
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University of Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology strenghten their cooperation
September 24, 2008
Gerd Jürgens was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Read press release: University of Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology strenghten their cooperation (available only in German)
Kirsten Bomblies receives the "Genius Award"
September 23, 2008
German-American plant evolution biologist wins MacArthur Award
Read press release: Kirsten Bomblies receives the "Genius Award"
Formula discovered for longer plant life
September 23, 2008
Molecular biologists from Tübingen have discovered how the growth of leaves and the aging process of plants are coordinated
Read press release: Formula discovered for longer plant life
Insight into the evolution of parasitism
September 22, 2008
Molecular biologists have decoded the genome of a nematode living in beetles
Read press release: Insight into the evolution of parasitism
Microbiologist from Tübingen was elected to become a member of Leopoldina
September 12, 2008
Volkmar Braun, Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, was selected to become a member of the German Acadamy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Read press release: Volkmar Braun becomes member of Leopoldina (available only in German)
Detlef Weigel was selected to become a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
July 10, 2008
Leopoldina is now Germany's first national academy of sciences.
Read press release: Detlef Weigel becomes member of Leopoldina (available only in German)
Elisa Izaurralde was selected to receive the Leibniz Prize 2008
February 11, 2008
Elisa Izaurralde was selected on Dec 06, 2007 as a Leibniz Prize winner 2008 together with Elena Conti. The prize will be handed over to her on February 11, 2008.
Press release of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Read press release: Eliza Izaurralde receives Leibniz Prize 2008