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    Workshop FAIR Research Data Management: A Basics Series for Chemists

    NFDI4Chem basic workshop on research data management in chemistry
    Flyer for NFDI4Chem RDM workshop
    Graphic: NFDI4Chem
  2. Charity Concert in Jena: Festival Brass and quinTTTonic Perform for a Good Cause

    On April 30, 2025, the International Young Orchestra Academy returns to Jena for its 15th charity concert – a musical evening supporting children with cancer.
    A brass trumpet on stage with musicians in the background.
    Image: Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie (IJOA)
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    Protective radar for bacteria

    A team of researchers from the University of Jena and the Leibniz-HKI has discovered a chemical defence mechanism that bacteria use to detect and eliminate hostile amoebae.
    Prof. Dr Pierre Stallforth is Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry and Paleobiotechnology at the University of Jena.
    Image: Jürgen Scheere (University of Jena)
  4. 1st Sustainability Week from 5-9 May - The programme is here!

    The University of Jena's Green Office invites students and staff to take part in various sustainability-related activities
    Cover motif for Sustainability Week - three figures with six puzzle pieces with symbols of the SDGs
    Image: VectorMine/stock.adobe.com, bearbeitet durch L. Franke
  5. Innovative solutions for tricky problems

    The University of Jena will be presenting several research projects at the Hannover Messe from 31 March to 4 April 2025
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    Tipping points in the microcosmos

    The latest issue of the research magazine LICHTGEDANKEN is dedicated to microorganisms and their influence on global processes
    A person holds a petri dish with bacterial cultures (Staphylococcus aureus).
    Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
  7. Land degradation monitoring system successfully established in South Africa

    Research team from the University of Jena has handed over the last permanent observation station to the South African National Park Authority
    Handover of the measuring equipment at Augrabies Falls National Park. From left: Christiane Schmullius and Jussi Baade (University of Jena), Siboniso Thela, Angela Isaks and Benjamin Jaar (SANParks)
    Image: Christiane Schmullius
  8. Ostracods provide information on the ecological status of waters

    International research team presents water monitoring method using small aquatic organisms as bioindicators
    Olga Schmitz (right) and Paul Mehlhorn sampling the sediment of a lagoon in Richards Bay (South Africa).
    Image: Peter Frenzel (Universität Jena)
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    LIFE "Connect"-Funds

    Ready to launch a new research collaboration? The LIFE-"Connect" fund is here to support you! Apply until March 31th 2025.
    LIFE-"Connect" fund
    Graphic: Franziska Eberl edited by Dania Rose-Sperling
  10. A dictionary of fragrances

    Researchers at the University of Jena develop data sets for the description and recording of odours
    Smell - how odours are described and named has now been compiled in a dictionary of fragrances.
    Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
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    Climate change reshuffles species like a deck of cards

    International study shows that biodiversity has changed faster where temperatures have also changed faster
    A mountain meadow in the Alps. Here, too, changes in temperature influence the diversity of species.
    Image: Gernot Kunz
  12. Insights into the nanoworld

    Volker Deckert receives Lamb Award 2025
    Prof. Dr Volker Deckert.
    Image: Sven Döring/Leibniz-IPHT
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