Latest News from the Faculty of Biological Sciences

Sort news

RSS feed
Filter the news

  1. How species-rich is your garden?

    A research team at the University of Jena has developed a self-test to help you assess and improve the ecological quality of private gardens.

    • Life
    Planting beds featuring standing deadwood and wooden paths.
    Image: NABU/Volker Gehrmann

  6. People perceive biodiversity

    A recent study shows that both visual and acoustic stimuli influence our perception of biodiversity.

    • Life
    Image example from the study: In the study, the participants assessed photographs and sound recordings from forests with different levels of biodiversity.
    Image: iDiv

  7. New DFG research group on protein folding

    Prof Dr Janine Kirstein coordinates the research group, which aims to gain a better understanding of age-related neurodegenerative diseases and develop new therapeutic approaches.

    • Life
    Prof Dr Janine Kirstein is Professor of the Biochemistry of Ageing at the University of Jena.
    Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)

  8. Pigments that can do more

    New study from the Cluster of Excellence ‘Balance of the Microverse’ sheds light on the bacterial use of biomass with potential for biofuels and new antibiotics

    • Life
    The comparison of two cultures of Clostridium thermocellum with filter paper as a cellulose source shows the influence of the pigment YAS on cellulose degradation by the bacterium.
    Image: Jana Krabbe, Leibniz-HKI

  9. Pandora’s microbes—the battle for iron in the lungs

    An interdisciplinary research team from the Cluster of Excellence ‘Balance of the Microverse’ has discovered a new group of bioactive natural substances in pathogenic bacteria of the genus Pandoraea.

    • Life
    Blue-colored electron microscope image of Pandoraea sputorum, a pathogen from the lung microbiome that has been little studied to date.
    Image: Elena Herzog, Leibniz-HKI

  10. When fungi take your breath

    A study from the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" reveals: Infection with Aspergillus fumigatus not only changes the lungs—the intestines and metabolism also play a surprising role.

    • Life
    𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴 (orange) along the hyphae of the pathogenic fungus 𝘈𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 (blue).
    Image: Liubov Nikitashina (Leibniz-HKI) und Sandor Nietzsche (EMZ-UKJ)

  12. Viral world organized

    International research team from the Cluster of Excellence “Balance of the Microverse” develops speedbreaking analysis tool

    • Life
    Vclust enables the fast and reliable analysis and clustering of millions of viral genomes.
    Graphic: Juliane Seeber (Gemini generated)
Pagination Page 1