🌱🐣 Happy Easter from our Plant Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Group! 🧬

Celebrating renewal, curiosity, and the hidden “Easter eggs” in biological data 🧪💻

🌿 Happy Easter! 🌼
https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb
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@samnm

FORGET SILICON: de.NBI Switches to 100% Organic Server Racks! 🧬🌿

We are phasing out traditional GPUs in favor of our new chlorophyll-powered compute clusters.

Please remember to water your allocated cloud partition every Tuesday. Over-watering may result in corrupted files or unexpected fern growth in your metadata.

#GreenIT #Bioinformatics #SustainableScience #DNAstorage #AprilFools

One year at Uni Bonn after moving from TU Braunschweig — time really flies! A year full of exciting research, fresh ideas, and strong growth for our group. Grateful for amazing collaborators and supporters along the way. 🚀

On to an even more exciting year ahead!
https://www.pbb.uni-bonn.de

#ResearchLife #Science #Collaboration
@boas_pucker
@samnm

Interested in the genetic secrets of your favorite plant?

A genome sequence might reveal them. We wrote down a workflow from DNA extraction & sequencing to genome sequence assembly & annotation. It includes a hands-on guide with example commands.

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12623-z

#Genomics #Bioinformatics
@samnm
@boas_pucker

Excited about plant pigments? Anthocyanin biosynthesis is a hot topic in plant biology, judging by the growing number of publications #FlavonoidFriday

https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202603.2058.v1 & https://shorturl.at/Hrm4c

@PuckerLab

📢 We’re hiring for the Research IT / Open Science team at the University of Bonn!

👉 IT Consultant & Platform Developer (E13, full-time)
📍 Bonn | ⏳ fixed-term until Dec 31, 2029

Work on DataPublication.nrw and help build a state-wide research data service!

📅 Apply by April 19, 2026

🔗 https://www.uni-bonn.de/de/universitaet/arbeiten-an-der-uni/stellenangebote/stellenausschreibungen/it-berater-in-und-plattformentwickler-in-fuer-datapublication.nrw

#OpenScience #ResearchIT

Completing "Plant Bioinformatics" 🌱

Students worked with CLI, big data, and cloud computing (thanks to de.NBI). Critically assessed papers and reproduced analyses. Alarming how often methods are incomplete or data is not shared. Teaching #OpenScience is crucial.

🔗 https://github.com/bpucker/teaching

🔗 https://codeberg.org/snmeckoni/Teaching

@PuckerLab
@samnm
@deNBI