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	Jobs for Student Assistants Lehre: Nutzpflanzenpraktikum (Wintersemester) - Saalbetreuung, 1 Nachmittag pro Woche. Hintergrundwissen Botanik. Kontakt: Maren Riemann, Sascha Wetters, Annette Häser. Lehre: Bestimmungsübungen (Sommersemester) - Saalbetreuung, 1 Nachmittag pro Woche. Formenkenntnis Botanik. Kontakt: Maren Riemann. Garden: Routine work - Arabidopsis cultivation (all year through), outside plants (spring, summer), regular, reliable, no fear from physical labour. Contact: Anna Luise Kuppinger. Research: Project Roots of Resilience, Screen of immunity activation by extracts from rhizomicrobiome bacteria (from October), careful, reliable, knowledge of molecular methods. Contact: Islam Khattab. Research: Project VFTHero, cultivation and routine analysis of Ginger, Turmeric and Wasabi, extraction in the context of vertical farming, start expected for October, reliable, careful and disciplined. Contact: Peter Nick
	Master- or PhD theses Applied Biodiversity Of course, you can also propose your own idea EvoDevo of Speciation (Dr. Sascha Wetters). Plant species do not fit the box. The team around Dr. Sascha Wetters tries to understand „species“ on the level of developmental processes (EvoDevo). more... Protect and Utilise – Crop plants have been bred with a bias on yield and fast growth. This made them loose their original resilience. Using the European Wild Grapevine, the ancestor of our domesticated Grapevine, we try to re-discover the genes of resilience. more... Deathly After Eight – Mints smell all differently. What for? We discovered that they scent their competitors to death with volatile suicide signals. Since these are signals, there is potential to develop novel bioherbicides. more... Superfood & Co. - Globalisation has also a botanical aspect, challenging consumer safety. Especially expensive superfoods are a realm of deception and confusion. Using our reference plant collection in the Botanic Garden and diagnostic tests based on genetic barcodes we hunt the food cheaters. more...
	Master- oder Doktorarbeiten Stress-Ökologie Of course, you can also propose your own idea Roots of Resilience – in frame of a EUCOR project with the universities of Basel and Colmar/Mulhouse the team around Dr. Islam Khattab investigates the stimulation of plant immunity by soil microbes. more... Plant Immunity – How does it work? How can the plant distinguish different types of pathogens? more... VFTHero – Cooperation with Vertical Farm Tech and Max-Rubner Institute about value giving compounds in Ginger, Turmeric, and Wasabi in a Vertical Farm set-up. more... Jasmonate and Climate Change. The adaptation to drought and salt stress is controlled by jasmonates. How? more... Talking Trees (Innovation Campus Sustainability). We search for science-based ways to improve the survival of trees on the Campus. more...
	Master- oder Doktorarbeiten Zelluläre Biotechnologie Of course, you can also propose your own idea Chloroplast Fingers Against Stress (cooperation with the University of Halle). We think that plastids contact other organelles using stromules and exchange signals for stress adapation. . more... Causa formalis – New Probes. As important as their molecular nature is the location of molecules in the cell. We work on probes that allow following or even manipulating spatial order in cells. more... Microtubules and Motors. Microtubules are mainly known as rulers of cell architecture. However, they also steer numerous signalling events. We found a microtubule motor acting as plant thermometer. more... Light and Development. Plants can change shape, depending on the environment, for instance in response to light. The team around Dr. Jathish Ponnu investigates this using heterophylly as paradigm. Hereby, different leaves are generated under water as compared to air, which is regulated by the blue light receptor cryptochrome. more...