And again, the Hsueh Lab used its creative powers for good (not evil!) and created the most gorgeous "dias de los muertos"-nematode curling around a fungi-themed pumpkin. Lots of planning…

On Friday, Ping hosted Dr. Nick Talbot from the Sainsbury Lab in Norwich, UK for the MPI’s Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series (DSSS). He spoke about cell biology of rice infection…

Congratulations to our Han-Wen (Vincent) Chang on earning his Doctor's degree!

In August, Ping was part of the jury at the Falling Walls Competition in Taiwan, where students and early-career professionals had three minutes to pitch their innovative ideas in the…

We had the absolute pleasure to host Lay-Sun Ma, Erh-Min Lai, Chih-Hang Wu and Ka-Wai Ma from Academia Sinica, as well as Hieng-Ming Ting from Taiwan National University for our symposium on…

We had an information-packed day at the symposium, with speakers and audience from our MPI, Tübingen University and abroad! We heard fascinating talks, looking at host-microbe interactions from all kinds…

Ping was selected to give the prestigious John Karling Annual Lecture at the Mycological Society of America's meeting this year.