Unit of Plant Molecular Cell Biology - Lab Chronicle
2026 | |
| March 2026 | Maria Breitkopf joins the lab as a bachelor student |
2025 | |
| December 19 2025 |  X‑mas party 2025 |
| November 2025 | Jianing Li joins the lab as a master student |
| August 20 2025 |  Lab outing at the “Kletterwald” in Aachen |
| July 2025 |
  IS‑MPMI Congress in Cologne (Germany) |
| March 2025 | Marco Breidenbenden, Elisabeth Halbreiter, Hanna Simon, Paula Simon and Sarah Züscher join the lab as bachelor students |
| February 26 2025 |  PhD exam Jiangzhao Qian |
2024 | |
| December 20 2024 |  X‑mas party 2024 |
| December 1 2024 | Summia Gul joins the lab as a post‑doc |
| July 19 2024 |  Lab outing 2024 (alpaca tour) |
| July 2024 |  Pietro Spanu returns for a 3‑week sabbatical (and enjoys his findings) |
| May 31 2024 |  PhD exam Matthias Freh |
| May 16 2024 |  International Barley Hub seminar by Hannah and Ralph |
| April 2024 | Myriam Fürst joins the lab as a master student |
| March 2024 | Mara Saßmann, Mattia Comparini and Alexander Speck join the lab as bachelor students |
| February 8 2024 |  Karneval 2024 |
| January 12 2024 |  New Year Breakfast 2024 / Ralph’s 60th birthday |
2023 | |
| December 14 2023 |  X‑mas party 2023 |
| October 1 2023 | Hannah König joins the lab as a bachelor student |
| August 1 2023 | Fatima Mohaya starts as a scientist in the lab |
| July 20 2023 |  IS‑MPMI congress in Providence (USA) |
| June 1 2023 | Kira Neumann starts as a new PhD student in the lab |
| March 2023 | Ella Doykova, Hannah Kemper, Charlotte Kummer, Gaelle Lentz and Anna Schwartz join the lab as bachelor students |
| February 16 2023 |  Karneval 2023 |
| January 9 2023 |  New Year Breakfast 2023 |
2022 | |
| December 16 2022 |  X‑mas party 2022 |
| December 2 2022 |  PhD exam Jan Hübbers |
| November 25 2022 |  PhD exam Hannah Thieron |
| November 16 2022 |  Vol. 3‑4 of the New Journal Times (editor‑in‑chief: Stefan Kusch) |
| November 7 2022 | Inga Arnold starts as a bachelor student and Allegra Wundersitz commences a research internship |
| October 28 2022 |  Oktoberfest 2022 |
| October 21 2022 |
 Ralph Panstruga receives the teaching award of the Fachschaft Biowissenschaften (category “Master studies”) |
| August 8 2022 | Celine Czernewski starts as a trainee in our administration office |
| August 3 2022 |  Vol. 3‑3 of the New Journal Times (editor‑in‑chief: Stefan Kusch) |
| July 2022 | Charlotte Hülsmann joins the lab for an internship |
| June 3 2022 |
   Lab outing 2022 (mini golf @Alsdorfer Weiher) – the teams |
| May 3 2022 |  Vol. 3‑2 of the New Journal Times (editor‑in‑chief: Stefan Kusch) |
| March 2022 | Nilofar Ehsani, Philipp Krumm and Daniel Vesga‑Puentes join the lab as Bachelor students |
| February 3 2022 |  Vol. 3‑1 of the New Journal Times (editor‑in‑chief: Stefan Kusch) |
| February 2022 | Franziska Broeske joins the lab as a Bachelor student |
2021 | |
| December 10 2021 |  X‑mas party 2021 |
| December 1 2021 | Sophie Levecque starts as a PhD student in the lab |
| October 29 2021 |  Vol. 2‑4 of the New Journal Times (editor‑in‑chief: Stefan Kusch) |
| October 22 2021 |  Oktoberfest 2021 (photo Anja Reinstädler) |
| August 2021 |  Ralph Panstruga showcased in the RWTH Report 2020 (photo Peter Winandy) |
| August 10 2021 |  Vol. 2‑3 of the New Journal Times (editor‑in‑chief: Stefan Kusch) |
| July 30 2021 |  Lab outing (“football minigolf” at the “Indemann”) |
| July 22 2021 |  Collaboration on host immunity – JBC paper (Panstruga & Bernhagen labs) highlighted in ASBMB Today |
| May 18 2021 |  Vol. 2‑2 of the New Journal Times (editor‑in‑chief: Stefan Kusch) |
| April 2021 | Kim Büttgen and Veronica Donde join the lab as Bachelor students |
| April 9 2021 |  Whisky tasting in times of Corona – via Zoom (powered by Björn Sabelleck) |
| February 21 2021 | Mansi Singh starts as a PhD student in the lab |
| February 1 2021 |  Vol. 2‑1 of the New Journal Times (editor‑in‑chief: Stefan Kusch) |
2020 | |
| December 18 2020 |  X‑mas party via Zoom (Covid‑19) |
| December 2020 |  Interview mit Ralph Panstruga und Matt Moscou (Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK) über ihr Review zu Nicht‑Wirt‑Resistenz |
| December 2020 | Ralph Panstruga wurde zum Highly Cited Researcher 2020 ernannt |
| November 2020 | Kira von Bongartz joins the lab as a Master student |
| October 1 2020 |  Vol. 1‑2 of the New Journal Times (editor‑in‑chief: Stefan Kusch) |
| October 1 2020 | Maria Bugaro starts as a technician in the lab |
| September 1 2020 | Jiangzhao Qian starts as a PhD student in the lab |
| July 1 2020 |  Vol. 1‑1 of the New Journal Times (editor‑in‑chief: Stefan Kusch) |
| May 2020 |  Working in times of Covid‑19 |
| May 2020 | Lennart Gaisbauer, Stella Gebauer, Christine Lux and Anna Maria Vllaho join the lab as Bachelor students |
| May 2 2020 | Björn Sabelleck continues in the lab as a post‑doc |
| January 17 2020 |  “Night of the professors” – DJ in the “Apollo” |
2019 | |
| December 6 2019 |  X‑mas party 2019 |
| December 2019 | Ralph Panstruga selected as Highly Cited Researcher 2019 |
| November 19 2019 |  PhD exam Björn Sabelleck |
| November 2019 |  Alexander von Humboldt twins |
| October 31 2019 |  Theodore von Kármán lecture by Pietro Spanu |
| August 15 2019 | Jan 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 1 2019 | Franz Leissing joins the lab as a post‑doc |
| March 2019 | Myriam Erz and Christian Axstmann join the lab as Bachelor students |
| February 28 2019 |  Karneval 2019 |
2018 | |
| December 7 2018 |  X‑mas lab cleaning 2018 |
| August 15 2018 | Stefan Kusch returns as a post‑doc to the lab |
| August 1 2018 | Hannah Thieron starts as a PhD student in the lab |
| July 13 2018 |  Katrin Wysgol passes the final exam of her trainee program as a secretary and receives her certificate |
| June 22 2018 |  “Night of the professors” – DJ in the “Apollo” |
| June 8 2018 |  PhD exam Hongpo Wu |
| March 29 2018 |  Farewell Lamprinos Frantzeskakis (and Daan Weits) |
| February 9?2018 |  20th New Phytologist workshop/SPP1819 “Molecular mechanisms underlying the rapid evolution of plant-microbe interactions” (Kasteel Bloemendal, Vaals, NL) |
| March 2018 | Florian Kümmel joins the lab as a Bachelor student |
| February 8 2018 |  Carneval 2018 |
| January 2018 | Mirna Barsoum joins the lab as a post-doc |
2017 | |
| December 15 2017 |  X-mas lab cleaning 2017 |
| November 17 2017 |  Winner “Teaching award” 2017 |
| June 7 2017 |  Lab outing 2017 (labyrinth at the border triangle) |
| June 1 2017 | Björn Sabelleck receives a poster prize at the 12th EFPP/10th SFP conference in Dunkerque Malo les Bains (France) |
| May 2017 |  Research Topic “Biotrophic Plant-Microbe Interactions” finalist (Top 10) in Frontiers in Plant Science “Spotlight Award 2017” – see also the respective YouTube video |
| April 28?2017 |  Farewell Stefan Kusch |
| April 7?2017 |  DURES-Trit consortium meeting in Aachen |
| March 2017 | Jan Engel, Barbara Nöthen, Tobias Spiegl and Marc Tiefes join the lab as Bachelor students |
| February 23 2017 |
Karneval 2017 |
| January 21 2017 |
 Wall painting in Katrin’s new appartment |
| January 1 2017 |
 Happy New Year! |
2016 | |
| December 14 2016 |
 PhD exam Stefan Kusch |
| December 13 2016 |
 X‑mas party 2016 |
| October 28 2016 |
 PhD exam Meltem Cavdar |
| October 18 2016 |
  Oktoberfest 2016 |
| October 5 2016 |
  Lab outing (“Sommerbobbahn”) |
| October 2 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 14 2016 |
Lousberg run
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| July 11 2016 |
Cold room cleaning
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| June 2015 | Lamprinos Frantzeskakis joins the lab as a post‑doc |
| May 2015 | Katrin Gruner joins the lab as a post‑doc |
| May 2015 | Stefan Kusch receives a travel fellowship from the Society for Experimental Botany to attend the IS‑MPMI congress in Portland |
| May 2015 | Meltem Cavdar receives a Ko‑Shimamoto Travel Award to attend the IS‑MPMI congress in Portland |
| March 2015 | Steven Dreischoff and Sandro Capellmann join the lab as Bachelor students |
| February 3 2015 |
 Newspaper article (Aachener Nachrichten) about RWTH Aachen Highly Cited Researchers |
2015 | |
| December 2015 | Ralph Panstruga has been selected as a Thomson‑Reuters ISI‑Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher 2015 |
| October 2 2015 |
Visit at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge (with Pietro Spanu – celebrating a powdery‑mildew outbreak in the greenhouse)
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| August 2015 | Katarzyna Drwiega and Aleksandra Patryjak (University of Rzeszów, Poland) arrive for a 3‑month ERASMUS internship in our lab |
| February / March 2015 | Matthias Freh, Meike Lauts, Sarah Josenhans, David Spencer, Susanne Thierry and Pascal Winkler join the lab as Bachelor students |
| February 2015 |
 Hannah Kuhn takes over an 8‑month interim leadership of the group of Silke Robatzek at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich (U.K.) |
2014 | |
| November 2014 |
 X‑mas party (ice skating) |
| November 2014 | Björn Sabelleck receives funding from the SUSTAIN‑COST Action to attend the workshop on experimental approaches for the investigation of effector function (10‑12 Feb 2015, Tel‑Aviv, Israel) |
| October 1 2014 |
Oktoberfest 2014
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| September 2014 |
 Most cited paper in *Biochemical Journal* (Plant Knowledge Environment) – see also the Facebook post |
| August 2014 |
 Thomson‑Reuters ISI‑Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher 2014 (photo: Peter Winandy) |
| August 4 2014 | Dr. Mark Kwaaitaal joins the team as a post‑doc |
| August 4 2014 | Helen Pennington (group of Pietro Spanu, Imperial College London) arrives for a four‑month internship in our lab |
| July 10 2014 |
 IS‑MPMI congress in Rhodes (together with BioIII members – Germany just won 7:1 against Brazil in the FIFA World Cup) |
| July 2014 | Dr. Hannah Kuhn receives a poster award at the New‑Phytologist symposium “Next generation scientists” at the John‑Innes‑Centre in Norwich (U.K.) |
| June 2014 | Dr. Johanna Acevedo Garcia receives a poster award at the conference “Current Findings in Plant Pathology” at the Fraunhofer Institute IME in Aachen |
| June 2014 | Meltem Cavdar receives funding from the DAAD to attend the IS‑MPMI congress in Rhodes |
| June 27 2014 |
 “Night of the professors” – DJ in the “Apollo” |
| June 12 2014 |
  Lab outing at the “Kletterwald” in Aachen |
| March 24‑28 2014 | Stefan Kusch receives funding from the SUSTAIN‑COST Action to attend the 1st TALEN and CRISPR Training School in Halle (Germany) |
| February 2014 |
  Karneval party |
2013 | |
| December 2013 |
 X‑mas party (Phantasialand) |
| October 2013 | Meltem Cavdar receives a RWTH Diversity Fund PhD fellowship |
| June 2013 |
 RWTH Fellow 2013 (photo: Thilo Vogel) |
| Summer 2013 |
 Team photo |
| February 2013 |
 Karneval 2013 |
2012 | |
| December 2012 |
 X‑mas party |
| June 15 2012 |
 “Night of the professors” – DJ in the “Apollo” |
| May 2012 |
 Lab retreat Wildenhof |
| March 23 2012 |
 Lab BBQ |
| March 8 2012 |
 Lab opening party |
2011 | |
| Autumn 2011 |
Introduction in RWTH Insight 3/2011 (photo: Peter Winandy)
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| October 14 2011 |
 Inauguration lecture and party |
| May 30 2011 |
 Appointment as professor at RWTH Aachen University |