Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week! 🎉🥳 Celebrating our amazing postdocs @mpipz.bsky.social who keep our science curious, creative, and moving forward.🌿🌱 We’re lucky to have you! #PAWGermany #PAW2026 #PostdocAppreciationWeek

We’re wrapping up #CraftYourResearch as part of #PostdocAppreciationWeek with Maryam Mahmoudi—postdoc in Detlef Weigel’s lab & one of the reps behind the idea! Maryam uses deep learning to explore genetic diversity in plants.
Thanks to everyone who joined in! #PAWGermany #PAW2026 #PostdocCommunity

Thursday’s #PostdocAppreciationWeek contribution comes from Pélagie Ratchinski — one of our postdocs and postdoc reps, who helped come up with our “Craft Your Research” session!
Pélagie studies how life cycle and sex regulation interact in brown algae.
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Meet Joseph Atemia, a postdoc studying the genomics of horned melon. His research explores genetic variation and gene families linked to valuable crop traits, including disease resistance. For #PAW2026, he turned his research into a work of art!

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It’s Day 2 of our #PostdocAppreciationWeek “Craft Your Research” series!
Today, meet Sung-Ya Lin from the Dept. of Complex Biological Interactions, who studies how nematodes rapidly evolve to sense and respond to chemical cues from their fungal predators.

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Meet the first of our creative postdocs: “I'm Daniela Ramirez, a postdoc studying plant-bacteria interactions and fascinated by microbes living within plants. My research uses bGWAS to uncover how Pseudomonas infects and colonizes Arabidopsis thaliana.”

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For this year’s Postdoc Appreciation Week, our postdoc representatives came up with the brilliant idea of organising a “Craft Your Research” session with their peers.
Every day this week, we’ll be sharing what came out of it!
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The Postdoc Office of the Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists #KHYS at #KITKarlsruhe is once again contributing the #PostdocAppreciationWeek #PAW with a series of lectures. All KHYS online events are also open for young researchers and #PAWGermany participants outside KIT.