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Weber, Sven

Postdoc

My focus lies on predictive breeding in general. My research covers quantitative genetics tasks like haplotype block and structural variation-based genomic selection as well as machine learning based high throughput phenotyping with 3D plant scans and multispectral data from UAVs. I´m interested in the relationship between genotype, phenotype, architectural interaction between traits and genotype by environment interactions. I lead a Junior Research Group with multiple PhD students for GxExM modelling and genomic prediction in rapeseed and sorghum.

 

Research Keywords

  • Genomic prediction
  • Haplotype blocks
  • Phenomic prediction
  • Multi-omics
  • 3D imaging and analysis
  • Plant architectural traits
  • UAV data analysis

 

Curriculum Vitae

  • November 2024: Group leader of the independent Junior Research Group "AIM4GEM" for GxExM modelling in rapeseed
  • January 2024: Winner of the Sherago International Travel Grant Award for the Plant and Animal Genomics conference in San Diego
  • September 2023: Price for the best students poster on the international rapeseed congress 2023 in Sydney
  • 2020-2024: PhD student at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
  • 2022-present: Social Media Editor, Theoretical and Applied Genetics
  • 11.-12. 2022: Visiting Scientist, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  • 2017-2020: Master of Science in Crop Sciences at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
  • 2014-2017: Bachelor of Science in Agronomy at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

 

Publication list

  • Mikwa, E.O., Wittkop, B., Windpassinger, S.M., Weber S.E., Ehrhardt D., Snowdon R.J. (2024) Early exposure to phosphorus starvation induces genetically determined responses in Sorghum bicolor roots. Theor Appl Genet 137, 220. DOI:10.1007/s00122-024-04728-4
  • Roscher-Ehrig L, Weber SE, Abbadi A, Malenica M, Abel S, Hemker R, Snowdon RJ, Wittkop B, Stahl A. (2024) Phenomic Selection for Hybrid Rapeseed Breeding. Plant Phenomics 2024;6:Article 0215. DOI: 10.34133/plantphenomics.0215
  • Weber, S. E., Roscher-Ehrig, L., Kox, T., Abbadi, A., Stahl, A., & Snowdon, R. J. (2024). Genomic prediction in Brassica napus: evaluating the benefit of imputed whole-genome sequencing data. Genome. DOI:10.1139/gen-2023-0126
  • Makhoul, M., Schlichtermann, R.-H., Ugwuanyi, S., Weber, S. E., Voss-Fels, K. P., Stahl, A., … Obermeier, C. (2024). Novel PHOTOPERIOD-1 gene variants associate with yield-related and root-angle traits in European bread wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 137(6), 125. DOI:10.1007/s00122-024-04634-9
  • Golicz, A. A., Yildiz, G., Weber, S., Kox, T., Abbadi, A., Snowdon, R. J., & Zanini, S. F. (2024). Graphical pangenomics-enabled characterisation of structural variant impact on gene expression in Brassica napus. DOI:10.1101/2024.03.14.585028
  • Weber, S. E., Chawla, H. S., Ehrig, L., Hickey, L. T., Frisch, M., Snowdon, R. J. (2023). Accurate prediction of quantitative traits with failed SNP calls in canola and maize. In Frontiers in Plant Science. Frontiers Media SA. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1221750
  • Weber, S. E., Frisch, M., Snowdon, R. J., & Voss-Fels, K. P. (2023). Haplotype blocks for genomic prediction: a comparative evaluation in multiple crop datasets. In Frontiers in Plant Science (Vol. 14). Frontiers Media SA. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1217589
  • Difabachew, Y. F., Frisch, M., Langstroff, A. L., Stahl, A., Wittkop, B., Snowdon, R. J., Koch, M., Kirchhoff, M., Cselényi, L., Wolf, M., Förster, J., Weber, S. E.., Okoye, U. J., & Zenke-Philippi, C. (2023). Genomic prediction with haplotype blocks in wheat. In Frontiers in Plant Science (Vol. 14). Frontiers Media SA. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1168547
  • Vollrath, P., Chawla, H. S., Alnajar, D., Gabur, I., Lee, H., Weber, S. E., Ehrig, L., Koopmann, B., Snowdon, R. J., & Obermeier, C. (2021). Dissection of Quantitative Blackleg Resistance Reveals Novel Variants of Resistance Gene Rlm9 in Elite Brassica napus. In Frontiers in Plant Science (Vol. 12). Frontiers Media SA. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.749491

 

Contact details:

IFZ Room B314/316

Phone (0641) 99 37425

Email: Sven.E.Weber@agrar.uni-giessen.de

Twitter: @Svenomics