RTG 2737 – STRESSistance
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Tamy speaks at the “Gordon Research Conference” in Barcelona
Our PhD student Sadia Tamanna from Stefanie Müller-Schüssele's Molecular Botany group is currently attending the Gordon Research Conference "Mitochondria and Chloroplasts" in Barcelona, Spain (https://www.grc.org/mitochondria-and-chloroplasts-conference/2024/). Based...
Inspiring career talk with Klaske Schukken
This week our PI Zuzana Storchová (Molecular Genetics) hosted Dr. Klaske Schukken, Postdoc at Yale University School of Medicine (New Haven, Connecticut, USA) in her lab. We were very happy that Klaske agreed to share her career experience with our PhD students on...
After Work Networking & Strategy Meeting
This year's "After Work Networking & Strategy Meeting" of the RTG 2737 took place on Tuesday, June 25, 2024 in the Botanical Garden of the Department of Biology at RPTU Kaiserslautern. It was used for internal exchange, networking and further strategy planning....
Guest seminar with Thomas Lachmann
Today we had the pleasure of having Prof. Dr. Thomas Lachmann from the Department of Cognitive and Developmental Psychology at RPTU as guest speaker in our Research Training Group. We enjoyed listening to his very interesting lecture entitled "The multiple-level...
Welcome to Fuka, our second DAAD-RISE scholarship holder in 2024
On June 19, 2024 we were delighted to welcome this year's second DAAD-RISE scholarship holder to our RTG STRESSistance. For the next three months, Fuka Somatomo from Ohio, USA will be supervised by our PhD student Melike Gond in the Plant Physiology Department of...
Welcome to Anisha to her research internship within our RTG
Anisha Prabhu is a Bachelor student at the State College in Pennsylvania, USA who successfully applied for a DAAD RISE Germany fellowship. During her 3 months internship in our RTG, she will be hosted by the Zoology & Neurobiology lab of our PI Jan Pielage and is...
Guest seminar with Jörg Nickelsen
On 27 May 2024, we had the pleasure of welcoming Prof. Jörg Nickelsen from the Department of Molecular Plant Sciences at LMU Munich as a guest speaker at our Research Training Group in Kaiserslautern. We would like to thank Prof. Nickelsen for his fascinating talk on...
Excursion to BASF
Last Wednesday, our doctoral students had the opportunity to spend an exciting day at the BASF Agricultural Center in Limburgerhof and at the BASF Visitor Center in Ludwigshafen. Several informative talks about the history and the portfolio of the company, lab- and...
Welcome to Ashwin and Raj from Edmonton
In 2024, we are once again welcoming two students from the University of Alberta in Edmonton to our graduate program. Ashwin Anand and Raj Roshankumar Patel are participating in the UoA Undergraduate Research Abroad Program, which enables students from the Department...
A successful PhD student retreat
The second self-organized retreat of our doctoral students took place from 29 to 30 April 2024 at the Kurpfalz Youth Hostel in Speyer. Our student assistants were also invited to take part in the event. In addition to several lecture and poster sessions, the program...