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Conferences/Events

4^th MAdLand Black Forest Annual meeting
September 12^th - 15^th 2023
3^rd MAdLand Black Forest Annual meeting
September 13^th - 16^th 2022
2^nd MAdLand Black Forest Annual meeting
September 14^th - 17^th 2021
1^st MAdLand Black Forest workshop and kickoff meeting
September 11^th - 16^th 2020
Black Forest Summer School 2020 about Plant Ecological Epigenetics.
May 10^th - 13^th 2020
iMOSS 2020: iMOSS will co-organize a meeting together with the Marchantia community in early November 2020 in India.
iMOSS 2019: July 9^th - 12^th in Madrid (Spain) as a joint meeting with the IAB.
Black Forest Workshop 2018, the 1st Black Forest Flagellated Plant Workshop September 17^th - 20^th 2018
iMOSS 2018: June 3^rd - 6^th in St. Petersburg near Tampa (Florida)
Black Forest Summer School 2017, to see the (Black) Forest for the trees: next generation sequencing and phylogenetics July 24^th - 27^th 2017
The international molecular moss science society (iMOSS) has been founded
Studium Generale Evolution in Marburg 2016 (Pressemeldung)
Black Forest Summer School 2016, To see the (Black) Forest for the trees: NGS data for phylogenetics, Sep 13^th - 16^th 2016
Black Forest Summer School 2015, To see the (Black) Forest for the trees: NGS data for phylogenetics, Sep 14^th-17^th 2015
XVI. Annual Meeting of the International Society of Endocytobiology (ISE-G), July 21^st-24^th 2014
Black Forest Summer School on Bioinformatics Sep 10^th-13^th 2013
Black Forest Retreat on Molecular Plant Science, Sep 10^th-13^th2012
The 3rd Physcomitrella Genome Workshop (September 13th-15th 2010, Freiburg/GE): images; 2nd workshop 2009: images
Past moss meetings: 2017 Honolulu/HI, 2016 Leeds/UK, 2015 Cancun/MX, 2014 Beijing/CN, 2013 Prague/CZ, 2012 NYBG/NY, 2011 Black Forest/GE, 2010 Hokkaido/JP, 2009 St. Louis/MO, 2008 Tampere/FI, 2007 Seoul/KR, 2006 Berkeley/CA, 2005 Brno/CZ, 2004 Freiburg/GE

Publications/Press releases

Stefan Rensing becomes Vice President for Research and Innovation at the University of Freiburg
Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher awarded to Stefan A. Rensing

The water-to-land transition of plant life - explained and set into context as a 10 min movie by PBS Eons
How did plants move to land? Futureproof podcast with Stefan Rensing
PEATmoss, the Physcomitrella Expression Atlas Tool, was published in the Plant Journal. Check out PEATmoss presentation on Twitter, Instagram and the PEATmoss video gallery for more information.
The paper Reconstructing trait evolution in plant evo-devo studies provides a guide for structuring comparative biology approaches and discuss the pitfalls that (plant) researchers should avoid when embarking on plant evolutionary biology studies.
The "One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants" paper from the One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative was published in Nature. UMR Press Release.
DFG priority programme "MAdLand" (Molecular Adaptation to Land: plant evolution to change) has been selected for funding. UMR Press release.
Go to http://madland.science
The Physcomitrella patens genome
paper (Lang et al. 2018) was awarded
the SEB‐Wiley‐TPJ award
for outstanding papers published in TPJ in 2018.
Application note with BMG labtech on cheap and reliable DNA quantification, e.g. for gDNA sequencing
The Chara Genome is published!
Read more in the press release.
English press release.
The genomes of the water ferns Azolla and Salvinia were published.
The P. patens V3 genome paper is out in Plant Journal (UMR press release) and won a silver prize for the best Original Article.
TAPscan webtool is now public.
Find out more in the paper on Genome Biology and Evolution, evx258
Our lab's research ranks 23rd in German plant science (source: Laborjournal)
Application note using BMG labtech's Fluostar and a video of how we use it
Elsevier book: Genomes and Evolution of Charophytes, Bryophytes, Lycophytes and Ferns
The Rhizophagus irregularis (Glomus intraradices) genome has been published in PNAS (UMR press release & VBIO article)
The Chondrus crispus genome has been published in PNAS (UMR press release)
The genomes of two nucleomorph-bearers has been published in Nature (UMR press release; BIOSS press release; Nature comment)
The Cyanophora genome has been published in Science (UFR press release and radio interview; Science comment)
The Selaginella genome has been published in Science (UFR press release; NPR interview)
The Ectocarpus genome has been published in Nature (UFR press release and radio interview)
The Volvox genome has been published in Science (JGI & UFR press release; comment in Science)
Read about P. patens: The Scientist "Moss Makeup" and "A mossy renaissance"
Press releases: moss genome @ JGI, ASPB, U-FR, Science

Homepage of Stefan Rensing
We are located in Freiburg, Germany and work on the evolution of plants with a focus on the genome of the moss Physcomitrium (Physcomitrella) patens and plant and algae comparative genomics. Over the past decade we were interested in streptophyte evolution / early land plant evolution. Stefan Rensing teaches plant cell biology and bioinformatics, including phylogeny and next generation sequencing.

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Please note that this page is relatively static on account of Stefan Rensing serving a term of office as vice president of research and innovation.

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