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Welcome to the Faculty of Biological Sciences

Botanical Garden
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Famous scholars such as the biologist Matthias Jacob Schleiden (1804-1881) and the zoologist Zoologe Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) lived and worked in Jena. Today this tradition is still the benchmark for superior science practice and education at the Faculty of Biological Sciences.

The Faculty of Biological Sciences cooperates with other faculties of the Friedrich Schiller University and non-university research institutes of the Max Planck Society and the Leibniz Association in several coordinated research projects. These projects are part the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" funded by the German Research Foundation.  

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Exzellenzcluster Balance of the Microverse
Research Cluster Balance of the Microverse
The Research Cluster investigates the complex interactions of microorganisms with other organisms and with their environment, which are of great significance for the functioning of ecosystems, our climate and the well-being of plants, animals and humans.
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7 Feb 2020 · Life
Chemical small talk – how bacteria calculate density
Kai Papenfort is the new Professor of General Microbiology. He is studying how microbes recognise members of their community
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18 Nov 2019 · Life
Antibiotics from the sea
Research team cultivates marine bacteria that had previously been paid little attention and taps potential source of new ...
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Taucher sammeln Blätter des Neptungrases (Posidonia oceanica) in der Bucht von Calvi auf Korsika.
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24 Oct 2019 · Life
Higher local earthworm diversity in Europe than in the tropics
Global climate change could alter earthworm communities worldwide
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Ein junger Regenwurm.
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23 Oct 2019 · Life
Time travel through the evolution of terrestrial plants
An international research consortium to which scientists from Jena contributed has presented data on how plant groups, their ...
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Prof. Dr. Günter Theißen und Dr. Lydia Gramzow vom Matthias-Schleiden-Institut der Universität Jena
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10 Sep 2019 · Life
‘Human races’ do not exist
Jena Declaration adopted
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Teil eines mit bunten Farben bedeckten Gesichts
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1 Aug 2019 · Life
Using organisms to decontaminate soil
Friedrich Schiller University granted one million euros for a research project into soil remediation at Ronneburg
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Petrischale mit dem Bakterium Streptomyces lividans.
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