All members of the FOR2581 met in Heidelberg to present their latest results. Our guest was Dag Heinemann from the Hannover Center for Optical Technologies
The DFG research unit FOR2581 has held its 2nd international symposium on plant quantitative morphodynamics. About 90 participants discussed recent advances in understanding how plants grow and shape their organs and how these shapes adapt and evolve. The symposium featured 35 talks by invited speakers and speakers selected from the abstracts as well as 35 posters on the following topics: Mechanics and...
All members of the FOR2581 met on the TU Munich campus to present their latest results. Our guest was Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein from the Haifa Technion (IL)
From 25.- 27.10.2021 the Research Unit organised an Autumn Workshop on Image Segmentation, Analysis and Bio-Mechanical Modeling at Heidelberg University. Here the participants learned, among other things, to create images and videos in various programmes as featured in this article. Wedge-based growth simulation of a idealized leaf with high growth on the margin (parallel to the margin perimeter). The ripples...
On the 21st of October 2021 the research unit came together for another progress meeting. The PIs, PhD students, and postdocs presented the latest results of their joined projects and were able to meet, either in Heidelberg in person or online, to discuss their research. The group was happy to have Cristina Martins Rodrigues and Junior Professor Timo Mühlhaus from...
The explosive work of FOR281 members from the Hay and Tsiantis labs on seed dispersal in Cardamine has been featured on the Youtube channel "Smarter Every Day". The channel by the engineer and science communicator Destin Sandlin is dedicated to 'exploring the world using science" in an entertaining format. You can find the paper he's referring to here: https://bit.ly/2TXz1uQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=342&v=MUaTOoVmg1Q&feature=youtu.be
Our members and PIs also excel in their work outside of the research unit. Prof. Karen Alim, PI for our project "Dynamic patterns of the plant growth regulator auxin", has recently been featured in an article by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. Here she talks about her work with the physarum polycephalum as professor for biological physics and morphogenesis at...
Due to the ongoing COVID situation, the research unit decided to held its bi-annual meeting online on the 23rd of April 2021. The PIs, PhD students, and postdocs presented the latest results of their joined projects and were able to meet online and discuss their research. The group was happy to have Professor Thorsten Hamann from the Norwegian University of...
We are happy to announce that two new papers by our team have been published! D. Ramos, J.R., Maizel, A. & Alim, K. Tissue-wide integration of mechanical cues promotes effective auxin patterning. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 136, 250 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01204-6Lilli Marie Schütz, Marion Louveaux, Amaya Vilches Barro, Sami Bouziri, Lorenzo Cerrone, Adrian Wolny, Anna Kreshuk, Fred A Hamprecht, Alexis Maizel, Integration of Cell Growth and...
(Arabidopsis ovule atlas enabling the quantitative spatio-temporal analysis of cell parameters and gene expression patterns in an organ of complex architecture) We are happy to announce that our latest paper has been published on eLife titled A digital 3D reference atlas reveals cellular growth patterns shaping the Arabidopsis ovule. This work was spearheaded by Athul Vijayan and Rachele Tofanelli and is the...