01.04.2025
Welcome back, Lisa
Lisa will re-join our team for her Master's thesis and work on metabolic modelling of plant-microbe interactions.
03.02.2025
Welcome Frowin
Frowin will write his Master's thesis in our group and work on modelling trophic networks in plant-microbe interactions.
05.10.2024
New Publication
In our recent work published in the The Plant Cell we resolved guard cell metabolic fluxes during stomata opening and revealed distinct roles for sugars and carboxylic acids as well as unexpected fluxes in carbon central metabolism. Our analyses highlight the flexibility of guard cell metabolism and proposed metabolic flux modes for further experimental testing.
01.10.2024
Nadine im Podcast (German only)
In der Podcastreihe "Exzellent erklärt" spricht Nadine über die Wichtigkeit der Pflanzenforschung und die Rolle der mathematischen Modellierung, um den gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen zu begegnen.
09.09.2024
AG Töpfer at Botaniktagung 2024!
Tiago will talk about how he integrates anatomical constraints with metabolic models to better understand how this affects C3, C3-C4, and C4 photosynthesis.
01.08.2024
Welcome Alejandro
Alejandro will join our team as a postdoc and work in association with the TRR 341 on multi-scale plant models.
01.08.2024
Welcome Subasree
We welcome our new postdoc Subasree. She will work on integrating biotic and abiotic stress responses with metabolic models.
01.07.2024
Welcome Nele
Nele is a joint PhD student between the Hildebrandt lab and our group and member of the IMPRS Cologne. She will use experimental and computational approaches to study seedling metabolism.
01.07.2024
Welcome back, Fatemeh
We are excited to welcome Fatemeh as a new postdoc in the team. She was a guest PhD student in our group for the past three years and just defended her thesis at the University of Tehran with excellence. Well done!
30.06.2024
Bye Maurice
We say goodbye to Maurice and wish him all the best for his future career. It was a pleasure to have you in the team.
02.05.2024
New Publication!
Cecile Angermann, Björn Heinemann, Jule Hansen, Nadine Töpfer, Hans-Peter Braun, and Tatjana M. Hildebrandt published the paper "Proteome reorganization and amino acid metabolism during germination and seedling establishment in Lupinus albus".
This paper suggests that seed storage proteins mainly serve as a nitrogen resource for vigorous post-germinative growth and not as a primary substrate for energy metabolism during germination in Lupinus albus.
01.02.2024
New group member @ AG Töpfer!
We welcome Martina Feierabend to our team. She will support our team with her expertise in constraint-based modelling of microbial systems.
06.12.2023
AG Töpfer part of CRC 1644!
AG Töpfer is part of the newly funded "CRC 1644: Plant phenotypic plasticity".
04.12.2023
Nadine joined the CDS-Team!
Nadine is now one of the core scientists at the UoC's Center for Data and Simulation Science and working on the "Scientific Domain 2: Computational Biology and Medicine".
02.12.2023
New Publication!
Monique Branco-Vieira, Nídia S. Caetano, Alex Ranieri J. Lima & Nadine Töpfer published the paper "Towards Multiscale Modeling to Predict Diatom Metabolites Production for Biofuels and High-Value Compounds".
This paper proposes a multiscale model that predicts biomass production of diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum under varying light intensities, temperatures, and day lengths.
14.11.2023
Nadine @ QMCS lecture series!
Nadine will give a lecture as a part of this semester’s lecture series "Die Welt im Computer" on November 22nd at the University of Cologne.
26.10.2023
AG Töpfer part of iHead!
AG Töpfer will be part of the interdisciplinary research consortium "Immunometabolism in Health and Disease (iHead)" led by Alga Zuccaro.
16.10.2023
New group member @ AG Töpfer!
We are delighted to welcome Maurice Cheung to our team. He will join us in November and support our team with his expertise in constraint-based modelling of plant metabolic systems.
18.09.2023
Nadine @ JKI!
Nadine will give a talk at the "Quedlinburger Pflanzenzüchtungstage" and the "20th Kurt von Rümker-Lectures" at the Julius Kühn-Institute on October 4th 2023.
04.09.2023
Stefano and Tiago will give a workshop!
Stefano and Tiago will give a workshop on constraint-based modelling at this year’s German Conference on Bioinformatics.
25.07.2023
Nadine @ P&P 2023!
Nadine will give a keynote lecture at this year’s Plants and People Conference on September 6th and 7th at the MPIMP in Potsdam-Golm.
28.06.2023
Nadine elected as RA4 Co-Coordinator!
Nadine has been elected as the Co-Coordinator of CEPLAS Research Area 4 Theoretical Plant Biology and Data Science. Together with Björn Usadel, she will organize activities within the research area.
02.06.2023
Nadine @ GCB 2023!
Nadine will give a keynote lecture at this year’s German Conference on Bioinformatics from Sep 12 – 14th in Hamburg.
28.04.2023
Congratulations, Tiago!
Congrats to Tiago Machado who is now associated to the CEPLAS graduate school.