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PhD student Nabila El Arbi (right) successfully defended her PhD thesis that was supervised by Markus Schmid (left). The central dogma of biology states that DNA is transcribed into RNA, which is then translated into proteins, assuming that one gene contains the information for one protein. However, RNA modifications like alternative splicing can produce multiple proteins from a single gene. Not much is known about this in plants, but PhD student Nabila El Arbi dived into the unknown and started to enlighten it.
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