Welcome to COS Heidelberg
The Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg aims to study organismic biology beyond the borders of organisational level. Research and teaching at COS is dedicated to study organismic biology from the basic molecular principles to cell biology, developmental biology and physiology both in plants and in animals and to further extend into evolution, biodiversity, systems biology and biotechnology.
News:
Seniorprofessor distinctus
For his service to the university, Thomas Rausch has been appointed Senior Professor distinctus of Heidelberg University.
Bertalanffy Lecture
Mirana Ramialison (ARMI, Monash University Clayton, Australia) will give the 16th Bertalanffy Lecture on November 14/15, 2019.
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Recent Publications:
2019 Plant glutathione biosynthesis revisited: redox-mediated activation of glutamylcysteine ligase does not require homo-dimerization Biochem J 476 7 1191-1203 doi: 10.1042/BCJ20190072 [Link]
2019 Plants Neither Possess nor Require Consciousness Trends Plant Sci 24 8 677-687 doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.05.008 [Link]
2018 Ginkgo biloba's footprint of dynamic Pleistocene history dates back only 390,000 years ago BMC Genomics 19 1 299 doi: 10.1186/s12864-018-4673-2 [Link]
2018 Decoding the Regulatory Logic of the Drosophila Male Stem Cell System Cell Rep 24 11 3072-3086 doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.08.013 [Link]