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UniBas hosts SwissForestLab Science Day
On Friday, Feb 14th the SwissForestLab Science Day brings more that 70 leading scientist form various disciplines to the University of Basel to discuss the fate of forests in the face of accelerating environmental change. The Science Day…
Botany Snow Day 2025
We had lots of fun at the 2025 Botany Snow Day, which took us to Grindelwald this year. Underneath the majestic Eiger North Face we couldn’t resist looking at some alpine plants …. and several of us almost beat the 2025 time of Marco…
New hydrogen isotope paper in New Phytologist
A new paper was published in New Phytologist today, addressing the phylogenetic origin of variability in the hydrogen isotope composition among different organic compounds and plant species. For the study we analyzed the hydrogen isotope…
New paper published in Science today showing that droughts in a warmer, CO2 rich world have strong impacts on ecosystem hydrology
The study reports findings from the ClimGrasHydro experiment in Austria that was led by the University of Innsbruck with collaborations from the PPE group at Uni Basel and other research institutions in Austria and Germany. The main finding…
Dr. Günter Hoch promoted to Professor
Dr. Günter Hoch was promoted last week by the Unirat to Adjunct Professor for Botany at the University of Basel. The entire PPE group congratulates Günter for his promotion. We look forward to many more years of fruitful collaboration in…
Dr. Frederik Baumgarten joins PPE team as senior scientist
Dr. Frederik Baumgarten has joined the PPE team in Hölstein as senior scientist on January 1st this year. Frederik studied biology at the University of Basel and received a PhD from ETHZ/WSL under the supervision of Arthur Gessler and…
Coline Le Noir de Carlan joins the PPE group as a new Postdoc
We are pleased to welcome Coline to the PPE group. Coline just arrived in Basel from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) where she has completed her PhD thesis on “The interplay between roots and soil microbes in high latitude regions under…
Santiago Perez-Bernal successfully defended his PhD thesis
We would like to congratulate Santiago Perez-Bernal, who successfully defended his PhD thesis last Thursday. Santiago has investigated the effects of mycorrhizal fungi as biofertilizers in intercropping systems in the semi arid tropics. He…
New PhD student joined PPE
Raphael Dups joined the PPE team as new PhD student in September. Raphael holds a master’s degree in Plant Sciences from the University of Basel. For his PhD he will work at the Swiss Canopy Crane II site and will investigate the effects of…
Exhibition celebrating Caspar Bauhin
The University Library and Botanical Garden have launched a well curated exhibition on the life and scientific activities of Caspar Bauhin, who passed away 400 years ago. Caspar Bauhin was the first professor for botany at our university…
PPE at the annual GfÖ meeting in Freising, GER
Several PPE members presented their work at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which was held at TU Munich in Freising this year. We were excited about the growing number of plant ecophysiology…
Visiting professor at PPE
We are very pleased to welcome Prof. Steeve Pépin as a guest professor at the Physiological Plant Ecology group! Steve holds a professorship at the University of Lavale, Canada and is specialized in ecophysiological research on climate -…Open PostDoc position in Physiological plant ecology and climate change research
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who will act as chief scientist and scientific manager for the Swiss Canopy Crane II (SCC II) experimental site in Hölstein BL, https://ppe.duw.unibas.ch/en/sccii/. Two main tasks are associated…
Songwei Wang successfully defended his PhD thesis
Congratulations to Songwei Wang for successfully defending his PhD thesis! In his thesis Songwei investigated g-min, which is the residual conductance of plant surfaces to water vapor after stomatal closure. Understanding g-min is critical…