PUBLIC EVENT: Workshop – Plant collections in Science & Art

Workshop for teenagers  and accompanying adults from 10-16 years on Saturday, 18 May 2013, in Basel.

SCIENTIFIC EVENT: PSC Science & Policy Summer School: Governing the Transition to a Bio-based Economy

Still places available for the PSC Science & Policy Summer School from 20-23 August, 2013, in Einsiedeln Switzerland

Current Research Topics in the SPSW

Cytokinin's role in embryonic root stem-cell formation

Plant Developmental Genetics

Despite the essential role of plants to support animal life on earth, our understanding of plant developmental processes...

Ecology and evolution in invasive plants

Plant Population Ecology

Invasion ecology, the study of the distribution and spread of organisms in habitats to which they are not native, has re...

Ecosystem function and biodiversity under global change

Plant Ecology

Plant ecology studies the interaction between plants and their environment. Ecosystem science considers life processes a...

Plant developmental biology

Plant Developmental Biology

Leaf development. The vegetative shoot apical meristem consists of a small group of dividing cells, which give ri...

Plant ecology

Plant Ecology

Most of our research is concerned with drivers and functional consequences of biodiversity change, with the ecology and ...

Understanding the genetic basis of ecological and evolutionary processes

Plant Ecological Genetics

Our work aims at understanding the genetic basis of ecological and evolutionary processes. To achieve this goal, we comb...

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15.05.2013

Unil Actualités: Les plantes se mettent à table Leçon inaugurale de Niko Geldner, professeur associé au Département de biologie moléculaire végétale (DBMV) de l'UNIL.

07.05.2013

SNSF Calls: Marie Heim-Vögtlin Grants Marie Heim-Vögtlin grants enable female researchers with excellent qualifications, who have had to interrupt or reduce their...