Research in Germany

Germany is a top destination for PhD students, postdocs, and senior scientists. The website "Research in Germany" helps you to find your way to Germany, to seek for PhD positions, research jobs or funding opportunities. It describes the German research landscape and helps you plan your career and life in Germany. Welcome to Germany - the Land of Ideas!

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Why Germany

There are many good reasons for doing research in  Germany. It is one of the most innovative, stable and well endowed  research nations  and its universities and research institutions are among the best in the world. Values like freedom and diversity as well as social and ecological responsibility are considered important to ensure knowledge gain and societal progress.

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Here you will find a selection of the latest R&D news from German universities, non-university research institutes and industrial research facilities.

Small birds spice up the already diverse diet of spotted hyenas in Namibia

Hyenas are generalist predators (and scavengers) with a broad range of prey species. They are known for hunting (or scavenging) larger mammals such as antelopes and occasionally feed on smaller mammals and reptiles. Being flexible in the choice of prey is a strategy of generalists – and this even extends to small passerine birds, as scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) and the University of Ljubljana observed in Namibia: Spotted hyenas pursued red-billed queleas, picked them from the ground or the surface of a waterhole and swallowed them whole, at a success rate of approximately one bird every three minutes.
Mar 28, 2024, 8:23:29 PM

Joint press release of the IPK Leibniz Institute and the Leibniz University Hannover

Researchers discover key gene for toxic alkaloid in barley
Mar 28, 2024, 8:00:00 PM

When inequality is more than “skin-deep”: Social status leaves traces in the epigenome of spotted hyenas in Tanzania

A research consortium led by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) provide evidence that social behaviour and social status are reflected at the molecular level of gene activation (epigenome) in juvenile and adult free-ranging spotted hyenas. They analysed non-invasively collected gut epithelium samples from both high-ranking and low-ranking female hyenas and showed that rank differences were associated with epigenetic signatures of social inequality, i.e., the pattern of activation or switching off of genes that regulate important physiological processes such as energy conversion and immune response in several genome regions.
Mar 28, 2024, 6:00:00 PM

New synapse type discovered through spatial proteomics

Researchers led by Ralf Jungmann at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, in collaboration with Eugenio F. Fornasiero and Felipe Opazo, both group leaders at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), and Helmholtz Munich, have developed a new super-resolution high-throughput imaging method. Using the new technique, the scientists were able to create a 3D neuronal cell atlas with single-molecule resolution and discovered a previously unknown type of synapse. The results of the study were published in the journal Cell.
Mar 28, 2024, 5:23:31 PM

Cross-Species Insights: Study Finds Calcium Link in Plant and Animal Immunity

Researchers uncover intriguing parallels in plant and animal immune systems. Groups of proteins that are similar in both life forms rely on calcium levels to trigger an immune response / publication in ‘Cell Host & Microbe’
Mar 28, 2024, 5:21:30 PM

Automated calculation of surface properties in crystals

The surface properties of complex crystalline materials can be calculated reliably and automatically using only the fundamental laws of physics, thanks to a new computer-based method. Writing in the journal npj computational materials, researchers from the University of Oldenburg in Germany outline how their method could speed up the search for new materials for important technologies such as photovoltaics, batteries or data transmission.
Mar 28, 2024, 4:19:10 PM

Small birds spice up the already diverse diet of spotted hyenas in Namibia

Hyenas are generalist predators (and scavengers) with a broad range of prey species. They are known for hunting (or scavenging) larger mammals such as antelopes and occasionally feed on smaller mammals and reptiles. Being flexible in the choice of prey is a strategy of generalists – and this even extends to small passerine birds, as scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) and the University of Ljubljana observed in Namibia: Spotted hyenas pursued red-billed queleas, picked them from the ground or the surface of a waterhole and swallowed them whole, at a success rate of approximately one bird every three minutes.
Mar 28, 2024, 8:23:29 PM

Joint press release of the IPK Leibniz Institute and the Leibniz University Hannover

Researchers discover key gene for toxic alkaloid in barley
Mar 28, 2024, 8:00:00 PM

When inequality is more than “skin-deep”: Social status leaves traces in the epigenome of spotted hyenas in Tanzania

A research consortium led by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) provide evidence that social behaviour and social status are reflected at the molecular level of gene activation (epigenome) in juvenile and adult free-ranging spotted hyenas. They analysed non-invasively collected gut epithelium samples from both high-ranking and low-ranking female hyenas and showed that rank differences were associated with epigenetic signatures of social inequality, i.e., the pattern of activation or switching off of genes that regulate important physiological processes such as energy conversion and immune response in several genome regions.
Mar 28, 2024, 6:00:00 PM

New synapse type discovered through spatial proteomics

Researchers led by Ralf Jungmann at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, in collaboration with Eugenio F. Fornasiero and Felipe Opazo, both group leaders at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), and Helmholtz Munich, have developed a new super-resolution high-throughput imaging method. Using the new technique, the scientists were able to create a 3D neuronal cell atlas with single-molecule resolution and discovered a previously unknown type of synapse. The results of the study were published in the journal Cell.
Mar 28, 2024, 5:23:31 PM

Cross-Species Insights: Study Finds Calcium Link in Plant and Animal Immunity

Researchers uncover intriguing parallels in plant and animal immune systems. Groups of proteins that are similar in both life forms rely on calcium levels to trigger an immune response / publication in ‘Cell Host & Microbe’
Mar 28, 2024, 5:21:30 PM

Automated calculation of surface properties in crystals

The surface properties of complex crystalline materials can be calculated reliably and automatically using only the fundamental laws of physics, thanks to a new computer-based method. Writing in the journal npj computational materials, researchers from the University of Oldenburg in Germany outline how their method could speed up the search for new materials for important technologies such as photovoltaics, batteries or data transmission.
Mar 28, 2024, 4:19:10 PM
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