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Unit of Plant Molecular Cell Biology

    

February 8th 2024
Carneval 2024
January 12th 2024
New Year Breakfast 2024/Ralph's 60th birthday
December 14th 2023
Xmas party 2023
October 1st 2023 Hannah König joins the lab as a bachelor student
August 1st 2023 Fatima Mohaya starts as a scientist in the lab
July 20th 2023
IS-MPMI congress in Providence (USA)
June 1st 2023Kira Neumann starts as a new PhD student in the lab
March 2023Ella Doykova, Hannah Kemper, Charlotte Kummer, Gaelle Lentz and Anna Schwartz join the lab as bachelor students
February 16th 2023
Carneval 2023
January 9th 2023
New Year Breakfast 2023
December 16th 2022
X-mas party 2022
December 2nd 2022
PhD exam Jan Hübbers
November 25th 2022
PhD exam Hannah Thieron
November 16th 2022
Vol. 3-4 of the New Journal Times published (editor-in-chief: Stefan Kusch)
November 7th 2022Inga Arnold starts as a bachelor student and Allegra Wundersitz commences a research internship
October 28th 2022

Oktoberfest 2022
October 21st 2022

(Photo Lutz Kupferschläger)
Ralph Panstruga receives the teaching award of the Fachschaft Biowissenschaften in the category "Master studies"
August 8th 2022Celine Czernewski starts as a trainee in our administration office
August 3rd 2022

Vol. 3-3 of the New Journal Times published (editor-in-chief: Stefan Kusch)
July 2022Charlotte Hülsmann joins the lab for an internship
June 3rd 2022


Lab outing 2022 (mini golf @Alsdorfer Weiher) - the teams
May 3rd 2022
Vol. 3-2 of the New Journal Times published (editor-in-chief: Stefan Kusch)
March 2022Nilofar Ehsani, Philipp Krumm and Daniel Vesga Puentes join the lab as Bachelor students
February 3rd 2022
Vol. 3-1 of the New Journal Times published (editor-in-chief: Stefan Kusch)
February 2022Franziska Broeske joins the lab as a Bachelor student
December 10th 2021
X-mas party 2021
December 1st 2021 Sophie Levecque starts as a PhD student in the lab
October 29th 2021

Vol. 2-4 of the New Journal Times published (editor-in-chief: Stefan Kusch)
October 22nd 2021
Oktoberfest 2021 (photo Anja Reinstädler)
August 2021
Ralph Panstruga showcased in the RWTH Report 2020 (photo Peter Winandy)
August 10th 2021
Vol. 2-3 of the New Journal Times published (editor-in-chief: Stefan Kusch)
July 30th 2021
Lab outing ("football minigolf" at the "Indemann")
July 22nd 2021
A collaboration to study host immunity in plants and animals: The recently published JBC paper from the Panstruga and Bernhagen labs about Arabidopsis MDL proteins highlighted in ASBMB Today
May 18th 2021
Vol. 2-2 of the New Journal Times published (editor-in-chief: Stefan Kusch)
April 2021Kim Büttgen and Veronica Donde join the lab as Bachelor students
April 9th 2021
Whisky tasting in times of Corona - @home via Zoom (powered by Björn Sabelleck)
February 21th 2021Mansi Singh starts as a PhD student in the lab
February 1st 2021

Vol. 2-1 of the New Journal Times published (editor-in-chief: Stefan Kusch)
December 18th 2020

X-mas party via Zoom in the times of covid-19
December 2020
Interview with Ralph Panstruga and Matt Moscou (Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, U.K.) regarding their recently published review article addressing one of the MPMI journal’s Top 10 Unanswered Questions, “What is the molecular basis of nonhost resistance?”
December 2020Ralph Panstruga has been selected as a Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science
Highly Cited Researcher 2020
November 2020Kira von Bongartz joins the lab as a Master student
October 1st 2020
Vol. 1-2 of the New Journal Times published (editor-in-chief: Stefan Kusch)
October 1st 2020Maria Bugaro starts as a  technician in the lab
September 1st 2020Jiangzhao Qian starts as a PhD student in the lab
July 1st 2020
Vol. 1-1 of the New Journal Times published (editor-in-chief: Stefan Kusch)
May 2020
Working in times of covid-19
May 2020Lennart Gaisbauer, Stella Gebauer, Christine Lux and Anna-Maria Vllaho
join the lab as Bachelor students
May 2nd 2020Björn Sabelleck continues in the lab as a post-doc
January 17th 2020
"Night of the professors" - Being DJ in the "Apollo"
December 6th 2019
X-mas party 2019
December 2019Ralph Panstruga has been selected as a Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science
Highly Cited Researcher 2019
November 19th 2019
PhD exam Björn Sabelleck
November 2019
Alexander von-Humboldt twins
October 31st 2019
Theodore von Kármán lecture by Pietro Spanu
August 15th 2019Jan Hübbers starts as a PhD student in the lab
June 2019
IT service by Matthias
May 2019
Pietro Spanu (Imperial College London) joins the lab for a 1-year sabbatical
April 1st 2019Franz Leissing joins the lab as a post-doc
March 2019Myriam Erz and Christian Axstmann join the lab as Bachelor students
February 28th 2019
Carneval 2019
December 7th 2018
X-mas lab cleaning 2018
August 15th 2018Stefan Kusch returns as a post-doc to the lab
August 1st 2018Hannah Thieron starts as a PhD student in the lab
July 13th 2018
Katrin Wysgol passes the final examination of her trainee program as a secretary and receives her certificate
June 22th 2018
"Night of the professors" - Being DJ in the "Apollo"
June 8th 2018
PhD exam Hongpo Wu
March 29th 2018
Farewell Lamprinos Frantzeskakis (and Daan Weits)
February 9th 2018
20th New Phytologist workshop/SPP1819 workshop "Molecular mechanisms underlying the rapid evolution of plant-microbe interactions" (Kasteel Bloemendal, Vaals, The Netherlands)
March 2018Florian Kümmel joins the lab as a Bachelor student
February 8th 2018
Carneval 2018
January 2018Mirna Barsoum joins the lab as a post-doc
December 15th 2017
X-mas lab cleaning 2017
November 17th 2017
Winner "Teaching award" 2017
June 7th 2017
Lab outing 2017 (labyrinth at the border triangle)
June 1st 2017Björn Sabelleck receives a poster prize at the 12th European Foundation for Plant Pathology/10th French Society for Plant Pathology (EFPP/SFP) conference in Dunkerque-Malo-les-Bains (France)
May 2017
Research Topic "Biotrophic Plant-Microbe Interactions" qualifies as finalist (Top 10) in the Frontiers in Plant Science "Spotlight Award 2017" under the title "How microbes affect plant life" - see also the respective Youtube movie
April 28th 2017
Farewell Stefan Kusch
April 7th 2017
DURES-Trit consortium meeting in Aachen
March 2017Jan Engel, Barbara Nöthen, Tobias Spiegl and Marc Tiefes join the lab as Bachelor students
February 23rd 2017
Carneval 2017
January 21st 2017
Wall painting in Katrin´s new appartment
January 1st 2017
Happy New Year!
December 14th 2016
PhD exam Stefan Kusch
December 13th 2016
X-mas party 2016
October 28th 2016
PhD exam Meltem Cavdar
October 18th 2016

Oktoberfest 2016
October 5th  2016   
Lab outing ("Sommerbobbahn")
October 2nd 2016
Marathon finisher Stefan and Hannah
September 2016
Article in RWTH Insight 2/2016
September 2016
RWTH press release concerning wheat mlo mutants (photo: Peter Winandy)
 July 14th 2016

Lousberg run
July 11th 2016

Cold room cleaning
June 2016Lamprinos Frantzeskakis joins the lab as a post-doc
May 2016Katrin Gruner joins the lab as a post-doc
May 2016Stefan Kusch receives a travel fellowship from the Society for Experimental Botany to attend the IS-MPMI congress in Portland
May 2016Meltem Cavdar receives a Ko Shimamoto Travel Award to attend the IS-MPMI congress in Portland
March 2016Steven Dreischoff and Sandro Capellmann join the lab as Bachelor students
February 3rd 2016
Newspaper article (Aachener Nachrichten) about RWTH Aachen Highly Cited Researchers
December 2015Ralph Panstruga has been selected as a Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science
Highly Cited Researcher 2015
October 2nd 2015

Visit at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge (with Pietro Spanu - celebrating a powdery mildew outbreak in the greenhouse)
August 2015Katarzyna Drwiega and Aleksandra Patryjak from the University of Rzeszow (Poland) arrive for a 3-month ERASMUS internship in our lab
February/March 2015Matthias Freh, Meike Lauts, Sarah Josenhans, David Spencer, Susanne Thierry and Pascal Winkler join the lab as Bachelor students
February 2015
Hannah Kuhn
takes over a 8-month interim leadership of the group of Silke Robatzek at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich (U.K.) 
November 2014
X-mas party (ice skating)
November 2014Björn Sabelleck receives funding from the SUSTAIN COST Action to attend the workshop on experimental approaches for the investigation of effector function from 10-12 February 2015 in Tel Aviv (Israel)
October 1st 2014

Oktoberfest 2014
September 2014
Most cited paper in Biochemical Journal (Plant Knowledge Environment) -
see also Facebook page here
August 2014
Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher 2014  (photo: Peter Winandy)
August 4th 2014Dr. Mark Kwaaitaal joins the team as a post-doc
August 4th 2014Helen Pennington from the group of Pietro Spanu (Imperial College London) arrives for a four month internship in our lab
July 10th 2014
IS-MPMI congress in Rhodes
(together with BioIII members - Germany just won 7:1 against Brazil in the FIFA world cup)
July 2014Dr. Hannah Kuhn receives a poster award at the New Phytologist symposium "Next generation scientists" at the  John Innes Centre in Norwich/U.K.
June 2014Dr. Johanna Acevedo Garcia receives a poster award at the conference "Current Findings in Plant Pathology" at the Fraunhofer Institute IME in Aachen
June 2014Meltem Cavdar receives funding from the DAAD to attend the IS-MPMI congress in Rhodes
June 27th 2014
"Night of the professors" - Being DJ in the "Apollo"
June 12th 2014

Lab outing at the "Klettergarten" in Aachen
March 24th-28th 2014Stefan Kusch receives funding from the SUSTAIN COST Action to attend the 1st TALEN and CRISPR Training School in Halle (Germany)
February 2014
Carneval party
December 2013
X-mas party (Phantasialand)
October 2013Meltem Cavdar receives a RWTH Diversity Fund PhD fellowship
June 2013
RWTH fellow 2013 (photo: Thilo Vogel)
Summer 2013
Team photo
February 2013
Carneval party 2013
December 2012
X-mas party
June 15th 2012
"Night of the professors" - Being DJ in the "Apollo"
May 2012
Lab retreat Wildenhof
March 23rd 2012
Lab BBQ
March 8th 2012
Lab opening party
Autumn 2011

Introduction in RWTH Insight 3/2011 (photo: Peter Winandy)
October 14th 2011
Inauguration lecture and party
May 30th 2011
Appointment as professor at RWTH Aachen University

Last updated: 03.04.2024