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    Optimising the processing of plastic waste

    University of Jena involved in new research project for the improvement of plastic recycling
    Redox polymers are purified in a laboratory at the Centre for Energy and Environmental Chemistry.
    Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
    • Studies and Teaching
    Excellent ratings for the University of Jena

    Master's programmes in Physics, Computer Science and Mathematics score highly in the latest CHE University Ranking
    Students on the campus of the University of Jena.
    Image: Nicole Nerger (Universität Jena)
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    Interdisciplinary research reveals adaptation mechanisms of microscopic algae

    Study by researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" shows how the green alga can adapt its shape and metabolism under natural conditions without changing its genome.
    Dr Trang Vuong (l.) and Dr Prateek Shetty show the growth of the green alga in the spatially structured 3D environment in comparison to conventional cultivation conditions in the laboratory.
    Image: Maria Mittag (Universität Jena)
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    Touch me!

    Psychologist Prof. Dr Ilona Croy receives “ERC Consolidator Grant” worth two million euros for a project on interpersonal touch research
    Hyperscanning research in TOUCHNET: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy is used to visualize oxygen consumption in the brain during everyday touch events.
    Image: Ilona Croy (Universität Jena)
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    Paving the way for diagnostics

    Chemists at the University of Jena develop graphene-based biosensor
    Dr David Kaiser holds a nasal swab sample, which is examined for biomarkers using the developed sensor.
    Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
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    Property issues remain in focus

    The German Research Foundation is funding the Collaborative Research Centre "Structural Change of Property" at the Universities of Jena and Erfurt for a further four years.
    They represent the CRC ‘Structural Change of Property’: (from left) Hartmut Rosa, Silke van Dyk and Tilman Reitz.
    Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
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    Pioneers of archaeology

    The travelling exhibition "Ein gut Theil Eigenheit. Life journeys of early female archaeologists" can be seen from 26 November in the University Main Building
    View of the exhibition with excavation artefacts and documents.
    Image: Marco Körner (Universität Jena)
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    • Knowledge Transfer and Innovation
    A way out of the antibiotics crisis

    Interdisciplinary research team is developing new strategies against resistant pathogens in the Carl Zeiss Foundation's "CZS Breakthroughs" programme
    The pathogenic mould Aspergillus fumigatus is one of the infectious agents that the research team wants to combat with the help of non-pathogenic microbes.
    Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
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    New approaches in nanomedicine for the targeted treatment of liver diseases

    Carl Zeiss Foundation funds joint nanomedicine project from Mainz and Jena with six million euros
    Functionalised polymer nanoparticles in a test tube.
    Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
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    Drug resistant fungi spreading

    The yeast Candida parapsilosis is emerging as a growing threat in a new study. A team from the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" and from the National Reference Centre for Invasive Fungal Infections investigated an outbreak of multi-drug resistant strain.
    Colonies of Candida parapsilosis.
    Image: Grit Walther
    • Awards and Personnel
    Taiwan's legal culture is based on German law

    Law scholar from Taiwan receives honorary doctorate from the University of Jena
    Dean Christoph Ohler (l.) and laudator Matthias Knauff (r.) with the new honorary doctor Chien-Liang Lee.
    Image: Jürgen Scheere/Universität Jena
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    How the moon was created

    Bilingual touring exhibition "Moon Impact" can be seen at the ThULB from 21 November
    View of the moon during a slight partial lunar eclipse.
    Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
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