Awards

Ueli Grossniklaus has been elected member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina

 

Florian Schiestl received a 2011 ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant for his project «FLORSIGNALS – Evolution and consequences of floral signaling in plants».

 

Ansgar Kahmen received a 2011 ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant for his project «COSIWAX – Compound Specific Hydrogen Isotope Analyses of Leaf Waxn-Alkanes as a Novel Tool to Assess Plant and Ecosystem Water Relations Across new Spatial and Temporal Scales» (Nina Buchmann group)

 

The Cassava Research Team of the Plant Biotechnology Lab of ETH Zurich led by Hervé Vanderschuren won the SFIAR Award 2011 for their project “Cassava research – technology transfer and capacity building: Making tropical crop technologies available where it can have an impact”. The team aims at developing improved manioc varieties by both conventional breeding and genetic engineering (Wilhelm Gruissem group).

 

The following three young researchers received the 2011 PSC Symposium Poster Award: Aurélien Bailly (1st prize), Institute of Plant Biology, Department of Microbiology UZH  (Laure Weisshaupt group); Frank Liebisch (2nd price), Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETHZ (Achim Walter group); Christian Andres (3rd prize), Research Institute of Organic Farming FiBL, Frick, Switzerland (collaboration with Emmanuel Frossard group).

 

Bettina Gutbrodt received the prestigious Vontobel Prize for her outstanding PhD thesis in basic agricultural sciences (Silvia Dorn group).

 

Michael Raissig and Heike Lindner won an award for the best poster at the Retreat of University Priority Programs in Systems Biology / Functional Genomics (Ueli Grossniklaus group).

 

Claudio Sedivy received the Royal Entomological Society award for his excellent oral presentation at the RES Ento’11 Conference in September 2011 (Silvia Dorn group).

 

Two PSC-Syngenta Fellowships awarded

„Temporal analysis of the regulatory activities of small RNAs during the cell-to-cell spread of tobaccovirus infection” (Manfred Heinlein, Franck Vazquez, Thomas Boller).

 

„Characterization of the purine permease (PUP) family of genes in Arabidopsis as candidates for a cytokinin transport system controlling signaling activities and domains” (Bruno Müller, Enrico Martinoia, Ueli Grossniklaus).

 

For project description and open positions see PSC website