Researchers at the University of Bayreuth are working to understand the regulatory functions of noncoding RNAs. This expands the foundations of neuroscience and provides valuable insight into the plasticity of the nervous system.
Harnessing sunlight for a cleaner tomorrow: Five Bavarian universities unite in "SolTech" to pioneer next-gen solar energy technologies—from green hydrogen to hybrid systems—for a sustainable global energy future.
Scientists at the University of Bayreuth are conducting cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research in biofabrication. The high-tech processes they are developing open up new possibilities for biomedical therapies.
Scientists at the University of Bayreuth are investigating how extreme weather events affect biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Together with their international partners, they study the local impacts of global climate change.
At the University of Bayreuth, academia and industry have partnered to form the TADFlife innovative training network. Together, they are working to develop sustainable technologies by improving the lifetime and energy efficiency of blue OLEDs.
Misleading or false claims about nutrition spread rapidly on social media – and reach children, adolescents and young adults in particular. The European collaborative project “FOOD-FRAMES” is investigating the extent to which young people in Europe are exposed to such content, and what consequences it may have for their dietary habits and mental health. The Chair of Public Health Nutrition, held by Prof. Dr Peter Philipsborn, at the University of Bayreuth, has been awarded over 220,000 euros for this research. The project at the Kulmbach campus forms part of the FOOD-FRAMES project, which runs until 2029 and is funded with a total of 2.6 million euros.
An international research team involving the University of Bayreuth has, for the first time, analysed the “inner workings” of AI language models when predicting political voting decisions. To do so, the researchers examined six national elections and AI-based election forecasts and developed a new method for making more precise predictions. They presented their findings at one of the world’s leading AI conferences, the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026) in Seoul, South Korea.
The German Research Foundation will fund the international Research Training Group “Multidimensional Biomaterials [MB]²” at the University of Bayreuth for an initial period of five years starting in early 2027. In an interdisciplinary approach, researchers from Bayreuth will collaborate with partners from three universities Australia to develop new and more broadly applicable biomaterials. At the same time, early‑career researchers will receive comprehensive training in biomaterials science during their doctoral studies. The number of doctoral candidates funded by the DFG will be matched by the Australian universities, creating an internationally networked cohort of early‑career researchers.
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth and Forschungszentrum Jülich have demonstrated that specific light-sensitive enzymes – so-called sensor histidine kinases (SHKs) – transmit their signal through a light-controlled change in asymmetry. With their new study, the researchers contribute to a better understanding of a central mechanism of bacterial signal processing. This may help to develop new tools for biomedicine or biotechnology. The findings are reported in the renowned journal Science Advances.
Enzymes are regarded as the key to sustainable chemistry. Despite major advances in protein design, creating artificial enzymes from scratch has so far remained a grand challenge. A research team at the University of Bayreuth, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Ottawa, has now demonstrated how non-functional protein scaffolds can be transformed into highly active enzymes. The researchers report their findings in the prestigious journal Nature Chemical Biology.
