In the beginning of March all member of the DFG priority program 2089 "Rhizoshphere Spatiotemporal Organisation" meet for their annual meeting at Leipzig. The main aim of the 27 project partners is the identification of spatiotemporal patterns in the rhizosphere and the explanation of the underlying mechanisms. In her project, Prof. Dr. Nadja Ray from MIDS together with the Co-PI Alexander Prechtel from FAU and the doctoral student Maximilian Rötzer investigate the mutual interaction between root growth/decay and the soil structure by means of mathematical modeling and numerical simulations.