Congratulations to the nine researchers from Brazil (4), Colombia (4), and Mexico (1), who have just been awarded an ERC Starting Grant.

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IPB Press Release, September 3, 2026 A great success for plant research at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) in Halle: The independent junior research group leader Mariana Schuster has been awarded a highly funded ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council for her FRONTERA project. Over a period of five years and with funding of 1.5 million euros, she and her team will investigate how the targeted cleavage of membrane proteins regulates the immune defense of plants.

Genetically encoded FRET-based fluorescent sensors enable real-time, high-resolution visualization of protease activity and proteolytic signaling in living

Understanding how natural genetic variants affect protein structure and function is central to plant biology. The 1001 Genomes Project has catalogued millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)...