ACGG News

On April 23rd, a new cohort of young female scientists arrived straight from school at our field station in Rauischholzhausen, as well as our greenhouse and lab here in Gießen. Our young (though not quite as young as the students) PhD candidates organized the Girls’ Day. Girls’ Day is an annual event where school students can explore careers that are traditionally male-dominated (with less than 40% female representation). Unfortunately, as PhD students in STEM fields, we are

In March 2026, Associate Professor Christine DIepenbrock from the University of California in Davis, USA visited JLU for one week to lead workshops and discuss with IRTG students about approaches and methods for quantitative genetics, predictive breeding and G*E*M analysis. Around 30 PhD students from JLU, JKI and HGU took part in the workshop activities during Christine's one-week stay. Many thanks to Christine for her great interaction with our students and the many stimul

During the past few months two new PhD graduates completed their doctoral degrees at JLU with a successful oral defence of their PhD thesis: Gözde Yildiz in December 2025 with her thesis entitled "Establishing pangenome graph as a framework for the analysis of the impact of structural variation on gene expression" (supervised by Agnieszka Golicz) and Samson Ugwuanyi in March 2026 with his thesis entitled "Elucidation of the genetic regulation of vicing and convicine in faba