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09 December 2020 / JMU Würzburg

ERC Consolidator Grant for Christina Felfe

Christina Felfe, Professor of Economics in Würzburg, has raised two million euros for her…

09 December 2020 / University of Bamberg

University of Bamberg Welcomes its First Double ERC Recipient

Historian Peter Riedlberger secures an ERC Consolidator Grant of 2 Million Euros.

08 December 2020 / University of Bayreuth

Large number of extinct bird species leads to misinterpretation of evolutionary dynamics

In the course of evolution, birds have adapted to the unique conditions of remote oceanic…

08 December 2020 / FAU

Three new Collaborative Research Centres at FAU

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved three new Collaborative Research…

07 December 2020 / FAU

Erlangen researchers investigate the effects Sars-CoV-2 has on digestive system

More than 55 million people across the globe have contracted Covid-19, and 1.3 million…

07 December 2020 / University of Regensburg

What the nose knows – early synthesis of olfactory perception

Scientists have proven for the first time experimentally by means of high-resolution…

04 December 2020 / TUM

WHO guidelines on physical activity: Prof. Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz calls for more exercise

Prof. Dr. med. Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz, Dean of the Department of Sport and Health…

04 December 2020 / University of Passau

Alcohol at 16 harms young people from socially disadvantaged families

In German-speaking countries, teenagers are allowed to drink alcohol from the age of 16.…

02 December 2020 / University of Bayreuth

Bayreuth microbiologists discover key protein for controlling cell shape in magnetic bacteria

The living cells of all organisms contain a cytoskeleton that stabilises their internal…

02 December 2020 / JMU Würzburg

Cell Membranes in Super Resolution

For the first time ever, expansion microscopy allows the imaging of even the finest…