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New Insights into Ecosystem Functions

12/14/2023
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A DFG research group led by the University of Würzburg has developed a method that makes it possible to analyse the relationship between biodiversity within and between ecosystems and the multifunctionality of entire landscapes.

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Taking Insects on a Virtual Journey

12/04/2023
Hannah Haberkern studied biomedicine at the University of Würzburg. After 14 years abroad, she has now returned to JMU.

How do flies and ants find their way? Neuroscientist Hannah Haberkern is investigating this question with a new Emmy Noether independent junior research group. To do this, she has moved from the USA to Würzburg.

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Highly Cited Researchers 2023

11/15/2023
Highly Cited: Dominic Grün, Christoph Wanner, Rainer Hedrich, José Pedro Friedmann Angeli. and Hermann Einsele.

Their work is most frequently cited in publications of other scientists. Researchers from the University of Würzburg are therefore included in the Highly Cited Researchers 2023 list.

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A Potential Target for New Anti-Cancer Agents

11/07/2023
Brains of three-day-old adult flies. Left: Healthy specimens. Center: animals with a brain tumor. Right: Brain tumor after reduction of SPT5 levels. Green coloring shows central brain regions. Red coloring shows the cerebral cortex, which is strongly expanded by the tumor.

MYC proteins play an important role in many types of cancer. A research team at the University of Würzburg has now succeeded in indirectly influencing these proteins - with clear consequences for the tumor.

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Lecture by Katalin Karikó at the Biocenter Colloquium

09/27/2023

On July 26, 2023, Katalin Karikó was awarded the Theodor Boveri Prize by the Würzburg Physical-Medical Society. Those who could not experience her inspiring lecture in person at the Biocenter can watch the recording here.

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Optimized cacao pollination for higher yields

09/13/2023
For a cacao plant to bear such rich fruit, it needs effective pollination. A research group, in which JMU was involved, has investigated how this can best be achieved.

How can the cultivation of cacao be improved by using the right pollination technique? This has now been investigated by a research team including Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter's Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology.

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How internal clocks control fat metabolism

09/11/2023
In the fruit fly Drosophila, a central circadian clock in the brain controls important parameters such as daily activity or food intake. Peripheral clocks receive timing signals via further pathways, and act as clocks for various metabolic processes. If the clocks chronically get out of sync, this can trigger diseases.

In the fruit fly Drosophila, circadian clocks also control fat metabolism. This is shown in a new study by a research team at the University of Würzburg. The findings could also be relevant for humans.

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Events

3. Data Crunch Cup

03/27/2023, 8:00 AM - 04/02/2023, 11:55 PM
Einen Berg von Daten bewältigen – darum geht es beim Data Crunch Cup, einem Wettbewerb an der Universität Würzburg.
Category: Fakultät für Biologie, Studierende, SchülerInnen, Veranstaltung
Location: Online
Organizer: Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology (CCTB)

PHD defense Meiqi Ding; Faculty for Biology

“Dissecting ion signaling in pollen tube growth and plant defense responses by probing plants with Hemibodies”rhodopsin-based plant optogenetics”

12/08/2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
[Translate to Englisch:] Logo Biozentrum der Universität Würzburg
Category: Fakultät für Biologie, Kalender-JMU, Kolloquium, Promotionskolloquium
Location: Seminarpavillon des Julius-von-Sachs-Instituts
Organizer: Fakultät für Biologie
Speaker: Meiqi Ding, M. Sc.

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