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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…
Two new masters!
We congratulate Meret Fricker and Raphael Dups for successfully defending their master's theses on May 30th! In her MSc thesis, Meret investigate the growth patterns of branches from mature trees at the SCC II research facility in relation…
Yating Li successfully defended her PhD!
We are pleased to announce that Yating successfully defended her PhD thesis on May 29nd! In her PhD project, Yating investigated the negative effects of low root temperatures on the water relations of temperate tree species. She…
Gabriela Ushida Neves visiting
Gabriela Ushida Neves from Wageningen University is visiting the PPE team to learn more about ecophysiological measurements and mechanistic modeling. Gabriela is pursuing her PhD within the Forest Ecology and Management group, alongside…
New phylogenomic tree of angiosperms published in Nature
This landmark paper is the result of ca. 9 years of coordinated work and includes the first comprehensively sampled phylogenomic tree of the flowering plants (all 64 orders, all 416 families and 7923 genera included), based on genome-wide…
Marie-Louise Schärer successfully defended her PhD thesis
Marie-Louise successfully defended her thesis last Thursday in a packed auditorium in the botany building at the University of Basel. In her thesis Marie-Louise asked why grasslands grow better after a drought compared to non-drought…Open PostDoc position in Physiological plant ecology ad climate change research
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who will act as 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 with the position.…
New paper on CO2 effects on oxygen isotopes in plants published in New Phytologist
This week our latest paper on stable oxygen isotopes in plant materials got published in New Phytologist. The paper describes an experiment where we tested the effects of elevated CO2 on the oxygen isotope composition of leaf water and leaf…