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3 February 2023|MIN-en

FAQ on the coronavirus and its impact on Universität Hamburg

Do we still have to wear masks? And can staff continue to work from home? You can find the answers to the most important questions on the coronavirus pandemic in the FAQ, which is regularly updated. [Last update: 3 February 2023, 10:41 AM]

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12 January 2023|MIN-en

Award for two outstanding female physicists

Prof. Olga Smirnova from the Max Born Institute, Berlin, and Dr. Benedetta Flebus, Assistant Professor at Boston College, USA, are awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship Program 2022 of the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI). The Program includes an extended research stay at the Cluster of Excellence...

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10 January 2023|MIN-en

“Thinking outside our own academic box”

The Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) now has a new Director: effective January 1, Prof. Grischa Perino from the WiSo Faculty succeeded Prof. Detlef Stammer, who co-founded the CEN and had led it since 2011. “This year we have several important milestones on the agenda,” Perino explains. “A new...

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Crossover-Verteilungen des linken (oben) und rechten (unten) Arms des Chromosom V von Arabidopsis in verschiedenen Mutanten.

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2 January 2023|Publikation

Protein identified that regulates crossover processes

By sequencing 1,000 plants, an international research team led by the Department of Biology at Universität Hamburg has discovered that two important aspects of meiosis - "crossover interference" and "crossover assurance" - are regulated by the protein ASYNAPTIC 1 (ASY1). The results, now published in the journal "PNAS...

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22 December 2022|Publikation

How biomolecules react to UV light

A sophisticated experiment provides new insights into the ultrafast reaction of biomolecules when they are hit by energetic ultraviolet light in their natural environment. The team of Jochen Küpper, physics professor at Universität Hamburg and DESY scientist, recorded the light-induced processes taking place in a small...

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20 December 2022|MIN-en

New book on Africa's biodiversity published

An international research team from Germany, southern Africa and the USA studied the functional role of social insects in the ecosystems of the drylands and savannas of southern Africa, for more than a decade. Led by the Department of Biology at Universität Hamburg, the researchers now present the results in a comprehensive...

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