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Janina Werner
@janinawern.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Doehlemann lab 🍄
University of Cologne
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Our PhD candidates are having a great time at the MadFungi transcriptomics workshop at the University of Kiel @uni-kiel.de. Special thanks to @estukenbrock.bsky.social and her team for the great organization!
September 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I am thrilled &honoured, what a journey that was!
Only possible with the great support from family, all lab members, friends, current @unicologne.bsky.social / @ceplas.bsky.social & former colleagues & mentors.
With this project, we will do all that we can to help protect plants from diseases (1/2)
🎉 Three ERC Starting Grants for Cologne researchers:
Dr. Sabina Hillebrandt, Dr. Isabel Saur, and Professor Dr. Johannes Wohlfart. They will now receive up to €1.5 million in funding for a period of five years. Congratulations 🥳

Read more👇
uni.koeln/H4YG9
Millions in EU funding: Three ERC Starting Grants Awarded to Researchers at the University of Cologne
Three researchers at the University of Cologne have each received one of the most coveted European research grants for early-career researchers / for a total of 4.5 million euros over five years
uni.koeln
September 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Happy to share our last preprint where we discovered a two step mechanism for the release of the maize signaling peptide Zip1. A “two - factor authentication”. Enjoy the reading! 👇
June 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Processing and release of the maize phytocytokine Zip1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.11.659102v1
June 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Happy to share our work on a recombinant interspecific smut hybrid of two fungal maize pathogens which helped us to understand how the regulation of effector genes determines infection style and tumor formation. Thanks to Gunther Doehlemann, Weiliang Zuo & Tom Winkler!

www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com
June 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Check this out👇 New from the Doehlemann lab! A fungal enzyme modulates plant-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions 🔥
GH25 lysozyme mediates tripartite interkingdom interactions and microbial competition on the plant leaf surface https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.04.647216v1
April 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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This was a truely fantastic day with great speakers. Thx to the organisers at the IfP @unicologne.bsky.social, @ceplas.bsky.social and the @trr341.bsky.social & of course all speaker. Cu next year on 19.02. for the next symposium
Today we celebrate a wide diversity in plant sciences at the Symposium of our institute at @unicologne.bsky.social with support from @ceplas.bsky.social & @trr341.bsky.social #PlantScience
February 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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The MadFungi🍄 research unit funded by @dfg.de kicked off this week with our meeting in Cologne @unicologne.bsky.social. We're excited to see what great science we'll achieve over the next four years.
February 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Gunther Döhlemann starting the MadFungi research unit (for5682.uni-koeln.de) kick off meeting involving groups from @hhu.bsky.social, @unibonn.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de, @kit.edu and of course
@unicologne.bsky.social (eg. @teamthomma.bsky.social, @algazuccaro.bsky.social ). Let‘s go
February 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM