ACGG News

Marie Fuchs started her position as Administrative Coordinator for IRTG 2843 at Justus Liebig University Giessen in January 2026. She succeeds Paul Knight, who will be leaving IRTG 2843 in the coming weeks to take up a new position at Wageningen University & Research. We thank Paul warmly for his valuable work and wish him all the best for his future in Wageningen. Marie brings extensive experience in project coordination. In her most recent position, she served as Lead Proje

From late September until mid-December 2025, PhD student Zsa Zsa Boyny from JLU's second IRTG student cohort spent three months at the University of Queensland in the research group of Prof. Mark Cooper, under the supervision of Dr. Owen Powell. During her exchange, Zsa Zsa advanced her simulation work modeling the impact of increased recombination on breeding outcomes, expanding it from purely additive models. She especially benefited from Owen's close supervision and his ex

PhD student Charlotte Häuser from JLU's Department of Genetics of Crop Diversity is spending three months at the University of Queensland from September to December 2025, conducting research with the team of Dr. Millicent Smith. Millicent's research focuses on understanding the physiological mechanisms that underpin yield stability and quality in grain legumes — a perfect match for Charlotte's work in Germany on yield stability in faba bean under heat and drought stress. This