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Monitoring Forests More Closely

05/08/2023
Mixed forest on a slope with withered conifers.

Increasing heat and drought are changing forests faster than expected. Researchers at the University of Würzburg want to keep a better eye on these dynamics. They have raised 1.2 million euros for their project.

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How bee-friendly is the forest?

04/20/2023
A honeybee (Apis mellifera) collects honeydew on a fir tree. The study shows that the beech-dominated Steigerwald provides insufficient food resources for honeybees.

What role do forests play as a feeding habitat for honeybees? A team led by Würzburg biologist Dr. Benjamin Rutschmann investigated this question. For this purpose, the researchers used observation hives inside the Steigerwald.

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More biodiversity at the field edge

04/12/2023
Flower strips are the focus of a Europe-wide research project involving scientists from the University of Würzburg.

Can flower strips combined with hedges improve biodiversity in intensively used agricultural areas? This is what a team from the University of Würzburg is investigating with project partners from four EU countries.

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Eliminating the partners of cancer

01/31/2023
A Starting Grant in 2017, now a Consolidator Grant: Elmar Wolf has now raised several million euros in third-party funding for his research projects.

Elmar Wolf has been on the hunt for new therapies for a type of pancreatic cancer and has been awarded a two million euro ERC Consolidator Grant for this.

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Mutant with Counting Disability

01/23/2023
Stimulation of the Venus flytrap by touch triggers electrical signals and calcium waves. The calcium signature is decoded; this causes the trap to shut quickly. The DYSC mutant has lost the ability to read and decode the calcium signature correctly.

The newly discovered dyscalculia mutant of the Venus flytrap has lost its ability to count electrical impulses. Würzburg researchers reveal the cause of the defect.

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A difficult key factor

10/19/2022
How many people does an infected person infect in a population that has not yet had any contact with this virus? Information on this question is provided by the so-called basic replication number R0.

At the beginning of the corona pandemic, the R0 value was an essential criterion for estimating the further development. A study by the University of Würzburg now shows that it was often not really accurately determined.

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Commander in the cell's production room

10/14/2022
Cells probably require up to 50 percent of their energy reserves for ribosome production. Under nutrient deficiency, the LARP1 protein ensures that protein production is reduced.

How do cells manage to quickly adapt their growth to changing environmental conditions? A new study by a research team from Würzburg provides an answer to this question.

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Events

PHD defense Jinping Lu; Faculty for Biology

"The vacuolar TPC1 channel and its luminal calcium sensing site in the luminal pore entrance"

02/16/2022, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
[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, via Zoom
Speaker: Jinping Lu, M.Sc.

PHD defense Pamela Ferretti; Faculty for Biology

“Clostridioides difficile beyond the disease-centred perspective: Beneficial properties in healthy infants and over-diagnosis in diseased adults identified by species- and SNV-based metagenomic analysis"

12/15/2021, 9:15 AM - 12/10/2021, 1:15 PM
[Translate to Englisch:] Logo Biozentrum der Universität Würzburg
Category: Fakultät für Biologie, Kalender-JMU, Kolloquium, Promotionskolloquium
Location: Hörsaal A102, B1 (Biozentrum), Hubland Süd
Organizer: Fakultät für Biologie, via Zoom
Speaker: Pamela Ferretti, Master in Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology

PHD defense Anna Vyalkova; Faculty for Biology

“Testing efficacy of approved Smallpox Vaccines in Human and Canine Cancer Therapy: Adipose - tissue derived stem cells (ADSC) take up VACV and serve as a protective vehicle for virus delivery to tumors"

12/08/2021, 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
[Translate to Englisch:] Logo Biozentrum der Universität Würzburg
Category: Fakultät für Biologie, Kalender-JMU, Kolloquium, Promotionskolloquium
Location: Hörsaal A102, B1 (Biozentrum), Hubland Süd
Organizer: Fakultät für Biologie, via Zoom
Speaker: Anna Vyalkova, Dipl. Biol.

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