Gutjahr lab highlights
07.06.2022
Caroline elected to the Academia Europaea.
21.03.2022
Yet another collaborative paper from the karrikin crowd: Hamon-Josse et al. 2022 from the Bennett lab is published with our contribution in New Phytologist. Congratulations to all!
07.03.2022
Sepulveda et al 2022 by the Nelson lab with our contribution is published in PNAS. Congratulations to all!
11.02.2022
Guercio et al. 2022 by the Shabek and De-St-Germain/Rameaux labs with our contribution is published in Communications Biology. Big congrats to all!
28.01.2022
Manuscript on the KAI2 receptors of pea by the Shabek and De-St-Germain/Rameaux lab with contributions from Salar was accepted in Communications Biology today. Congratulatons to all!
25.01.2022
Debatosh's paper on the role of PHRs in arbuscular mycorrhiza came out today. Congratulations!
25.12.2021
Today our paper with Mark Water's lab and a number of collaborating laboratories was published in The Plant Journal. Congrats to everyone involved and especially to Yongjie (Waters lab) and Kartikye (our lab) for their co-first authorships!
22.12.2021
Yet another manuscript accepted. This time a spotlight with Debatosh Das in Molecular Plant. What a week!!!
21.12.2021
It must be Christmas time: Today another paper was accepted in Nature Communcations. This was a great collaboration with our former postdoc Debatosh Das and his new labs of Jianhua Zhang and Lam Hon Ming, with contributions from Moxian Chen (all Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Michael Gigl from Corinna Dawid's lab (TUM) and Michael Paries and Karen Hobecker from our lab.
20.12.2021
Paper led by Mark Waters (University of Western Australia) accepted in Plant Journal today, with important contribution from our lab member Kartikye Varshney. Congratulations to all!
08.11.2021
José's paper on the role of KAI2 in regulating root hair elongation under low phosphate is out in Current Biology! Congratulations to all authors!
06.11.2021
Our collaborative review 'Sculpting the soil microbiota', with the Castrillo lab from University of Nottingham is out in The Plant Journal.
04.11.2021
A new paper from Corinna Dawid's lab with our modest contribution is out in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. It's about flavor and pharmacological compounds in licorice and how their content is influenced by phosphate and arbuscular mycorrhiza.
01.11.2021
Our review 'Sculpting the soil microbiota', which we co-quthored with the Castrillo lab from University of Nottingham was accepted in the Plant Journal.
22.10.2021
Caroline receives the Adam Kondorosi Early Career Award from the Academia Europea at the European Nitrogen Fixation Meeting (ENFC) 2021.
20.10.2021
José's paper on the role of KAI2 in root hair elongation upon phosphate starvation was accepted in Current Biology today. Big congrats to the first and all co-authors. This was a great collaboration with Maxime Hamon-Josse and Tom Bennett from Leeds University.
13.04.2021
Big congrats to Fan Du for successfully defending her doctoral thesis today. We wish you all the best for your future.
18.12.2020
Hooray! Florian's and Caroline's review on plant responsiveness to arbuscular mycorrhiza was accepted in Current Opinion in Plant Biology.
03.11.2020
Great news! Samy's and Salar's manuscript on the diversity of karrikin receptors in Lotus japonicus was accepted in PLoS Genetics. Congratulations to all involved!
30.10.2020
A short communication by Samy and Salar came out in Plant Signaling & Behaviour today.
25.08.2020
Big congratulations to José Villaécija-Aguilar for successfully passing his doctoral thesis defense today. All the best for you next career step and life!
14.07.2020
Fantastic news! Samy's paper on the role of SMAX1 in Lotus japonicus root and root hair development was accepted in PNAS. Huge congrats to Samy and all the co-authors Debatosh, Kartikye, Markus and José.
01.07.2020
Paper from Pascal Braun's group on "Extensive signal integration by the phytohormone protein network" is out in Nature with our humble contribution. Congratulations to all involved and thank you for having us on board.
02.03.2020
Caroline visits the lab of Catherine Rameaux and gives a talk at INRA Versailles, France.
16.01.2020
Debatosh's and Salar's method paper on an easy-to-use hydroponics system for arbuscular mycorrhiza was accepted by Frontiers in Plant Science. Congratulations!
10.12.2019
Now officially postdoc! Congratulations to our colleague Tian Zeng for passing his PhD thesis defense at Wageningen University. Great idea too stream the event life - so we all could participate!
12.11.2019
Samy Carbonnel passed his doctoral thesis defense today. Big congratulations and all the best for the next step in your career and life.
28.10.2019
Caroline gives a seminar talk at the IPK Gatersleben, Germany.
21.10.2019
Welcome to Haifei Zhang our new CSC-funded PhD student. All the best for your work!
18.10.2019
Caroline gives a keynote lecture at the IEB day at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
8.10.2019
Caroline gives a talk at the XXVIth EUCARPIA maize and sorghum conference in Freising.
7.10.2019
We welcome Filippo Binci, our new Erasmus MSc student from University of Padova, Italy.
01.10.2019
Welcome to Karishma Kumari, our new DAAD-funded PhD student. All the best for your work!
17.09.2019
Caroline gives a keynote lecture at the Botanikertagung 2019 in Rostock, Germany.
29.08.2019
It's a good day today. Finally José's paper on the role of SMAX1/SMXL2 in Arabidopsis root and root hair development is out in PLoS Genetics.
29.08.2019
Our collaborative paper with Marco Chiapello (University of Turin) and Debatosh was accepted in Frontiers in Plant Sciences. Congratulations to both and thanks to Marco for coming up with this nice R tool.
31.07.2019
Caroline gives a talk at the FASEB conference "Mechanisms of Plant Development" in Olean, USA.
22.07.2019
Hooray! José's manuscript on the role of SMAX1/SMXL2 in Arabidopsis root and root hair development was accepted by PLOS Genetics. This was a fun collaboration with the labs of Corinna Dawid (TUM) and Tom Bennett (University of Leeds).
14.07.2019
Gutjahr lab is represented by 4 posters (Catarina, Fan, Georg, Michael) and one plenary talk (Caroline) at the MPMI meeting in Glasgow, UK.
03.07.2019
Caroline gives a talk at the SEB meeting in Sevilla, Spain.
27.06.2019
Caroline gives a plenary lecture at the 23rd Conference on Plant Growths Substances in Paris, France.
11.06.2019
Caroline gives a keynote lecture at the Green4Good meeting in Olomouc, Czech Republic.
09.05.2019
Caroline gives a talk in the Plant Science seminar series University of Cambridge, UK.
10.04.2019
Andy Keymer defended his doctoral thesis. Congratulations and all the best for your new life as patent lawyer trainee.
09.04.2019
Finally the strigolactone book is out: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030121525
08.04.2019
Caroline gives a talk at the Dutch Plant Science Meeting in Lunteren.
28.03.2019
Farewell party for Rishab who goes back to India after successfully completing the practical work for his MSc thesis. All the best for writing up and for your future. We hope to meet you again soon.
19.03.2019
Get the champagne out: Catarina Cardoso was awarded a prestigious Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations!
04.03.2019
Lotta Wankner and Sarah Manzer join the lab as research course and Master thesis students. Welcome and all the best for your work.
01.03.2019
Karen Hobecker joins the lab as a postdoc coming all the way from Argentina. Welcome and we wish you a very successful start.
27.02.2019
Farewell of Andy Keymer who starts a new life as a patent lawyer trainee. We which you all the best for your new job and see you soon for your defence ;-).
18.02.2019
Louis Robichez from University of Gent/VIBin Belgium joins the lab as an Erasmus Master thesis student. Welcome and all the best for your work.
13.02.2019
Caroline gives a talk at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding in Cologne.
07.02.2019
Fan and Florian present a poster at the international Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting (iMMM) in Torino (Italy) and Caroline gives a talk.
30.01.2019
Farewell of Priya, who starts her PostDoc in Cyril Zipfels lab in Zürich in February. We wish you lots of success in your new project.
07.01.2019
Our new doctoral student Annika Lübbe and (soon to be) Postdoc Tian Zeng join the lab. Welcome and lots of success with your work.
15.11.2018
Our new technician Philipp Chapman joins the lab. Welcome and enjoy! We are hoping for even happier plants :-).
15.10.2018
Rishabh Pankaj our new DAAD-funded MSc student from IIT Karagpur joins the lab. Welcome and all the best with your project!
01.10.2018
Kartikye Varshney our new DAAD-funded doctoral student joins the lab. Welcome and good luck with your research!
19.07.2018
Priya successfully defended her doctoral thesis. Congratulations Dr. Priya!!!
19.07.2018
Our project MetaLoMic on the role of Lotus japonicus exudates on the root microbiome within the SPP2125 priority program of the DFG "Deconstruction and reconstruction of the plant microbiota DeCrypt" was funded. Thanks a lot to our collaborators Corinna Dawid, Martin Parniske and Michael Schloter for writing this project together.
16.07.2018
Our new postdoc Catarina Cardoso joins the lab. Welcome and all the best for your work!
03.07.2017
Caroline receives the President's Medal of the Society of Experimental Biology (UK) and gives a talk at the SEB meeting in Florence.
11.06.2018
Caroline gives a talk at the University of Düsseldorf and visits the lab of Vera Göhre.
29.05.2018
Collaborative Tansley review with Luisa Lanfranco and Valentina Fiorilli is out in New Phytologist.
25.05.2018
Caroline visits the CNB in Madrid (What a great place for plant molecular biology research!) and gives a talk in the series of "junior seminars" (organised by the PhD students).
03.05.2018
Andy's review on lipid transfer in inter organismic interactions is out in Current Opinion in Plant Biology. Congratulations!
24.04.2018
Brands et al. 2018, a paper from the Dörmann lab (University of Bonn) with our collaborative contribution, is online!
24.04.2018
Caroline gives a talk at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge and visits Sebastian Schornack and Uta Paszkowski.
23.04.2018
Caroline gives a talk at the University of Sheffield and visits Tim Daniell and Duncan Cameron.
18.04.2018
Caroline gives a talk at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm.
12.04.2018
Collaborative Tansley Review with Luisa Lanfranco and Valentina Fiorilli was accepted by New Phytologist.
06.04.2018
Andy's review on cross-kingdom lipid transfer in AM symbiosis and other organismic interactions was accepted by Current Opinion in Plant Biology.
05.04.2018
Paper from Dörmann lab with our collaborative input was accepted by Plant Journal.
03.03.2018
Andy's BioProtocol in close collaboration with the Eisenreich lab was accepted!
07.02.2018
Priya's review on transcriptional regulation of AM development is out!
16.01.2018
Elena Evertz successfully defends her Bachelor thesis. Congratulations!
01.12.2017
Georg Stabl comes back to the lab as a doctoral student. Welcome back and good luck with your work!
20.11.2017
Collaborative paper Yu et al. 2017, from Li Lab (China Agricultural University, Beijing) and Hochholdinger lab (University of Bonn) is out in New Phytologist.
07.11.2017
Caroline visits the lab of Davide Bulgarelli and gives a talk at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee.
17.10.2017
Georg Stabl sucessfully defends and finishes his Master thesis. Congratulations!
16.10.2017
Elena Evertz comes back to the lab for her BSc thesis. Welcome and good luck with your work!
11.10.2017
Caroline gives a talk at our fantastic SFB924 Conference "Plant Biology of the next generation"
06.10.2017
Caroline gives a talk at the Cologne Excellent Women in Science (CEWIS) Symposium in Cologne, Germany. Thanks to the organizing PhD students for their great hospitality.
27.09.2017
Caroline gives a talk at the Conference of the German Genetics Society in Bochum, Germany.
25.09.2017
Caroline participates and presents at the retirement symposium of her previous mentor Paola Bonfante - a great personality in mycorrhiza research! Grazie a tutti gli amici Torinesi e sopratutto a Paola per il bellissimo evento.
01.09.2017
Caroline starts her professorship at the TUM.
22.08.2017
Report in the German radio Deutschlandfunk Forschung aktuell about our work on lipid transfer from plants to arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi.
16.08.2017
Our paper on the "cover" of eLife.
11.08.2017
FANTASTIC NEWS: Caroline receives an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. Now the lab is safe for the next 5 years!
09.08.2017
Caroline receives the Valent BioSciences Young Scientist Award and gives a keynote lecture at the PGRSA conference 2017 in Anchorage, Alaska. Many thanks to the Plant Growth Regulation Society of America (PGRSA) for this honor.
31.07.2017
Caroline gives a plenary talk at the 9th International Conference On Mycorrhiza (ICOM9) in Prague.
28.07.2017
Caroline gives a plenary talk at the international Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting 2017 (iMMM2017) in Toulouse.
13.07.2017
Andy's and Priya's paper on "lipid transfer from plants to arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi" accepted in eLife. WHAT A DAY! Congratulations and big thanks to all co-authors from Delaux (CNRS Toulouse), Dörmann (Uni Bonn), Eisenreich (TU Munich) and Parniske (LMU) labs.
13.07.2017
Priya wins the best paper award of the Life Science Munich (LSM) graduate school for Pimprikar et al 2016 in Current Biology. We are so proud of you!
22.06.2017
Caroline gives a talk at the IX. European Plant Science Retreat 2017 in Toulouse.
08.05.2017
Florian Berger starts his doctoral work on the MAZE project. Welcome and all the best for your work!
04.05.2017
Caroline gives a talk at the ZMBP Tübingen and visits Christopher Grefen's lab.
25.04.2017
Caroline gives a talk at the 3rd Adam Kondorosi Symposium "Frontiers in Beneficial Plant-Microbe Interactions" in Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
18.04.2017
Arvid Heutinck from Wageningen University joins the lab for an Erasmus internship. Welcome and good luck with your work!
27. & 29. 03.2017
Samy and Caroline give a talk and Salar a flash talk at the 2nd Internactional Congress on Strigolactones in Torino, Italy.
21.03.2017
Annika Kretschmar successfully defends her MSc thesis. Congratulations!
01.03.2017
Georg Stabl starts his master thesis in the lab. Good luck with your work!
21.02.2017
Caroline gives a seminar talk at the Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna, Austria.
09.01.2017
Caroline gives a talk at the VISCEA conference on Plant Nutrition, Growth and Environmental Interactions III in Vienna, Austria.
06.02.2017
Elena Evertz starts her lab rotation. Welcome!
12.01.2017
Caroline gives a seminar talk at the Institute of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
09.01.2017
Caroline visits Sofie Goormachtig's lab and gives a seminar talk at the VIB in Gent, Belgium.
17.11.2016
Caroline visits Didier Reinhardt's lab and gives a seminar talk at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
10.11.2016
Caroline gives a seminar talk at the Department of Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Bochum.
01.11.2016
Our former Master student Veronica Basso starts her PhD in the lab of Francis Martin at INRA Nancy. All the best for your work!
28.09.2016
Veronica Basso sucessfully defends her Master thesis in Padova. Congratulations!!
05.09.2016
Annika Kretschmar joins the lab as a Master student. Welcome and good luck with your work!
26.08.2016
Caroline gives a talk at the ENFC 2016 in Budapest.
09.08.2016
Julia Mayer successfully defends her BSc thesis. Congratulations!
18.07.2016
Caroline gives a talk at the XVII MPMI congress 2016 in Portland.
12.07.2016
Stefan Buchka successfully defends his BSc thesis. Congratulations!
25.06.2016
Samy receives one of four poster awards at the IPGSA meeting 2016 in Toronto. Well done Samy!!!
23.06.2016
Caroline gives a talk at the IPGSA meeting 2016 in Toronto.
01.06.2016
Fan Du receives a CSC fellowship to conduct her doctoral research in our lab. Well done!
26.05.2016
Caroline gives a talk at the John Innes Center in Norwich, UK.
18.04.2016
Julia Mayer and Stefan Buchka start their BSc thesis. Good luck with your work!
14.04.2016
Caroline presents our mycorrhiza project at the BayKlimaFit opening event.
01.04.2016
Peter Muth joins the lab to work on the BayKlimaFit project. Welcome and good luck with your work!
24.03.2016
Priya's paper on transcriptional regulation of RAM1 is out! Press release here.
21.03.2016
Mathias Brands from the Dörmann lab in Bonn is visiting us for a few days. Welcome and enjoy your stay!
09.03.2016
Charles Whitaker joins the lab as a student helper. Welcome!
29.02.2016
This is great: Andy was accepted as participant of the EMBO course "In vivo plant imaging" in Heidelberg.
24.02.2016
Priya receives MPMI travel award to participate at the XVII IS-MPMI congress 2016 in Portland, USA. Congratulations!!!
03.02.2016
Caroline gives a talk as invited speaker at the Plant Biotech Denmark Meeting 2016 in Copenhagen
01.02.2016
Our former Master student Markus C. Kolodziej starts his PhD thesis in the lab of Beat Keller at University of Zürich, Switzerland to work on wheat disease. All the best for your future!
29.01.2016
Caroline visits Frank Hochholdinger’s lab and gives an invited seminar talk at the INRES in Bonn, Germany.
28.01.2016
We are thrilled! Priya’s paper on regulation of RAM1 and first full Gutjahr lab paper was accepted by Current Biology. Well done Priya and a big thanks to all co-authors.
18.12.2015
Champagne!! Science paper about Caroline’s former work in the Paszkowski lab on role of karrikin receptor complex in arbuscular mycorrhiza establishment is out. Samy’s contribution is highly appreciated!
09.12.2015
Caroline receives a grant from the Bavarian State Ministry of Environment and Consumer Protection to work on arbuscular mycorrhiza responses of maize in the field within the consortium BayKlimaFit.
30.11.2015
Less than one year into his doctoral work Andy Keymer gives a talk (selected from poster abstract) at the 36th New Phytologist Symposium on “Cell Biology at the Plant-Microbe Interface” in Munich
01.11.2015
Michael Paries joins the lab as a doctoral student. Welcome back!
29.10.2015
Caroline visits Stefan Rensings’s lab and gives an invited seminar talk at the Faculty of Biology in Marburg, Germany.
15.10.2015
Fan Du joins the lab as a doctoral student. Welcome!
14.09.2015
Veronica Basso from University of Padova, Italy joins the lab as an Erasmus-funded Master student. Welcome and good luck with your work.
22.09.2015
Andy receives New Phytologist travel grant to participate at the 36th New Phytologist Symposium on “Cell Biology at the Plant-Microbe Interface” in Munich. Congratulations!
22.09.2015
Markus Kolodziej and Michael Paries successfully defend their MSc theses. Congratulations!
18.09.2015
After only a few months in the Gutjahr lab Salar wins the first poster prize at the COST meeting on Chemistry and Biochemistry of Strigolactones in Bucharest, Romania. Well done, Salar!
04.09.2015
Caroline gives a talk as invited speaker at the 2nd International Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting in Cambridge, UK.
04.08.2015
Caroline visits Ertao Wang’s lab and gives an invited seminar talk at the SIPPE, Shangai, China.
02.08.2015
Caroline gives a talk as invited speaker at 4th International Congress on Biotic-Plant Interactions in Nanjing, China.
12.07.2015
Samy receives Nature Plants-funded travel grant to participate at the 2nd International Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting in Cambridge, UK. Congratulations!
17.06.2015
Caroline visits Uta Paszkowski’s lab in Cambridge, UK and gives an invited seminar talk at the Plant Science Department.
08.06.2015
Caroline visits Peter Nick’s and Michael Riemann’s labs and gives an invited seminar talk at the KIT Karlsruhe, Germany.
25.05.2015
PNAS paper about Caro’s former work in the Paszkowski lab on transcriptional diversity in rice root types in response to AM is out. Yupi!!
21.05.2015
SFB924 funded for an additionally period of four years. We are happy to be part of it!
16.05.2015
Samy wins first poster prize at the LSM retreat. Congratulations!
15.04.2015
Our first PostDoc Salar Torabi joins the lab. Welcome!
10.04.2015
PlosOne paper about Caroline’s former work in the Paszkowski lab on JA signaling in rice AM is out.
01.01.2015
Andy Keymer joins the lab as a doctoral student. Welcome back!
06.11.2014
Caroline visits Christiane Gatz’s lab and gives an invited seminar talk at the Faculty of Biology in Göttingen, Germany.
01.11.2014
José Villaécija-Aguilar joins the lab as a doctoral student. Welcome!
25.09.2014
Monica Bohmer successfully defends her MSc thesis. Congratulations!
25.09.2014
Max Griessmann successfully defends his BSc thesis with honors. Congratulations!
11.09.2014
Samy’s and Caroline’s commentary on control of AM by nutrient signals in Frontiers in Plant Science is out. Well done Samy!
08.09.2014
Caroline receives a grant from the Emmy Noether program of the DFG to work on Phytohormone signaling in arbuscular mycorrhiza development. Now we are unstoppable
:-)!
20.08.2014
Caroline’s review on Phytohormone signaling in AM development in Current Opinion in Plant Biology is out.
26.07.2014
Caroline visits Uli Hammes’ and Thomas Dresselhaus’ labs and gives an SFB924 talk at the Faculty of Biology in Regensburg, Germany.
22.07.2014
Leonhard Karl successfully defends his BSc thesis. Congratulations!
03.04.2014
Caroline receives MPMI travel award to participate at the XVI IS-MPMI congress 2014 in Rhodes, Greece.
Let's start this chronicle ...