04.02.2019 | TOP NEWS, yDiv

PhD award 2018 for yDiv alumna Bettina Ohse

Bettina Ohse (third from right) received the PhD Award 2018 of Leipzig University (photo: Christian Hüller)

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Leipzig. Bettina Ohse has received the PhD Award 2018 of the Research Academy Leipzig. At the graduate school’s annual reception, the 35-year-old was honoured by Prof Beate Schücking, rector of Leipzig University. The insights gained during her doctoral research attracted great attention and aroused international media response. Together with her co-authors, Ohse proved that trees can tell whether one of their buds or shoots was just accidentally torn off by a storm gust or fell victim to a voracious deer. When the deer eat them, the trees launch defence mechanisms. Ohse’s work has already been awarded the Wilhelm Pfeffer Foundation's Best Paper Prize.
Bettina Ohse was a graduate student in the working group of iDiv director Prof Christian Wirth at Leipzig University. From 2014 to 2018 she was member of iDiv’s graduate school yDiv.
Volker HahnMore information in the media release of Leipzig University (in German):
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/newsdetail/artikel/promotionspreise-an-herausragende-nachwuchsforscher-verliehen-2019-02-01/Media release about Bettina Ohse’s research:
https://www.idiv.de/en/news/media_releases/archive_2016/archive_2016_single_view/news_article/trees-recogn.html

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