On Thursday, 18 December 2025, our PhD student Saskia Zeilfelder (Molecular Biotechnology/Schroda lab) successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “„Analysis of the vesicle-inducing protein in plastids 1 (VIPP1) as an ESCRT-III superfamily member in chloroplast membrane biogenesis and maintenance“”. Congratulations! We wish Saskia every success and all the best for the future, both professionally and personally.