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Collaborative research centre on extreme drought enters second funding phase
In the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1211 "Earth - Evolution at the Dry Limit", the mutual relationships between landscape development and the evolution of life are being investigated. The German Research Foundation has extended the CRC and will fund it with approximately eleven million euros over the next four years.
Anthoceros genomes illuminate the origin of land plants and the unique biology of hornworts
New publication in Nature Plants on hornwort genomes and the evolution of land plants - Hornworts comprise a bryophyte lineage that diverged from other extant land plants >400 million years ago and bears unique biological features, including a distinct sporophyte architecture, cyanobacterial symbiosis and a pyrenoid-based carbon concentrating mechanism (CCM). Here, we provide three high-quality genomes of Anthoceros hornworts.
Online-Lehre des Nees-Instituts im Sommersemester 2020
Das Land NRW und die Universität Bonn haben bekannt gegeben, die Vorlesungszeit erst zum Montag, 20. April 2020 beginnen zu lassen. Digitale Lehrangebote stehen aber jetzt schon über eCampus zur Verfügung.
BIO-GEEC
The German-Ecuadorian Biodiversity Consortium (BIO-GEEC) financed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit” (GIZ) in close collaboration with the Ecuadorian “Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad” (INABIO) started stage 1: Establishing barcoding pipelines for biological systems of public and economic relevance. BIO-GEEC joins four German (Nees (UoB), IEB (UoM), ZfMK, CeNAK) and four Ecuadorian (ESPE, Ikiam, UTN, PUCE) institutions to identify and characterize organismic groups that have public and/or economic importance.
Bedrohte Vielfalt
Studie der Uni Bonn und der Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg untersucht den Zustand der Natur im Raum Bonn
Biologische Vielfalt und Klimawandel
Vortrag im Rahmen der Öffentlichen Ringvorlesung "Aspekte der Erderwärmung"
Resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of mosses using targeted exons from organellar and nuclear genomes
New publication in Nature Communications - A team of fourteen researchers from ten countries joined forces to infer the ordinal phylogeny of mosses using complete organellar exomes and a comparable set of nuclear genes.
What can a billion years of coexistence tell us about plants and fungi evolution and their symbiotic interactions?
New publication in Nature Communications - A team of fourteen researchers with complementary expertise in botany, mycology, paleontology and phylogenetic methods joined forces to infer the global phylogenies and dates of major evolutionary events for the two kingdoms – plants and fungi.
Habilitation Dr. Marcus Lehnert
We congratulate Dr. Marcus Lehnert for obtaining the Venia Legendi in botany from the faculty of mathematics and natural science at the University of Bonn.
Biogeography and Evolution of the Atacama Desert Flora
Our Atacama team has been awarded for the best poster at the XII Congreso Latinoamericano De Botanica in Quito (October 2018)
