News of 2021

Archive

16.12.2021
Neanderthals changed ecosystems 125,000 years ago

Joint publication by GRC fellow Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser and Gutenberg Research Award winner Wil Roebroeks shows that Neanderthals used fire to keep the landscape open ...

15.09.2021
Electrosynthesis: preventing cathodic corrosion

GRC director Siegfried Waldvogel publishes literature review in Chemical Reviews and launches project designed to obtain precursors for plastics from agricultural waste ...

06.09.2021
GRC fellow Edward Lemke receives funding for his work on the replication of cellular processes using new forms of organelles

Volkswagen Foundation to provide some EUR 1 million to finance research focusing on membraneless organelles ...

25.08.2021
Engineering new cell functionalities on thin films

GRC fellow Edward Lemke has developed a method with which he can grant cells new functionalities and better understand eukaryotic cell functions ...

21.07.2021
Awareness without a sense of self

Former GRC fellow Thomas Metzinger publishes most comprehensive study to date on the experience of pure awareness during meditation ...

16.07.2021
Donald Dingwell to be invested into the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador

GRC fellow recieves the Canadian province's highest honour ...

13.07.2021
Breakthrough for the treatment of celiac disease

Former GRC fellow Detlef Schuppan leads development and clinical testing of the first effective drug for the treatment of gluten intolerance ...

30.06.2021
GRC fellow Jan Esper and colleagues redate eruption of the Laacher See volcano

Revised date of the Laacher See eruption 13,077 years ago provides crucial information about historical climate fluctuations at the end of the last Ice Age ...

17.05.2021
KHR Biotech, a spin-off company of the University Medical Center Mainz, starts operations

Biopharma company of former GRC fellow Krishnaraj Rajalingam targets development of novel therapeutics for various cancers and enters into joint venture with Indivumed GmbH ...

06.05.2021
Donald Dingwell elected as member of the Royal Society

GRC fellow has joined the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences ...

06.04.2021
Tattoo made of gold nanoparticles revolutionizes medical diagnostics

Color changes of gold nanoparticles under the skin reveal concentration changes of substances in the body / Article by former GRC fellow Carsten Sönnichsen in Nano Letters ...

23.03.2021
New international PhD program in cellular biophysics in Frankfurt and Mainz

Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Goethe University Frankfurt, and JGU jointly offer structured graduate program / GRC fellows Amparo Acker-Palmer and Edward Lemke involved ...

16.03.2021
European summer droughts since 2015 exceed anything in the past two millennia

Tree ring analyses by GRC fellow Jan Esper show historically exceptional drought in recent years / Anomaly is likely the result of human-caused climate change ...

03.03.2021
New insights into the role of the messenger interleukin 17

Scientists of the University Medical Center Mainz, among them GRC fellow Christoph Reinhardt, document a relationship between autoimmune disease and the gut microbiome ...

05.02.2021
GRC fellow Matthias Schott selected as Humboldt Scout

PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ...

29.01.2021
Synthesizing valuable chemicals from contaminated soil

Team of scientists with GRC director Siegfried Waldvogel uses electrolysis to produce dichloro and dibromo compounds in a safer and more environmentally friendly manner / Results published in Science ...

25.01.2021
Change of the senior member team at Gutenberg Academy

GRC member Concettina Sfienti elected deputy spokesperson ...

21.-23.01.2021
Conference "Sacred Architecture, Rite and Music between Byzantium and the West (6th-15th Ct.)"

Interdisciplinary online conference by GRC fellow Klaus Pietschmann in cooperation with Leibniz ScienceCampus – Byzantium between Orient and Occident (flyer for download) ...