(home to the German parliament) and the Federal Chancellery. At the beginning of December, 25 students from the University of Greifswald will make their way to Riga for the return visit. Their trip to the [...] in both towns on current political issues and also get a taster of political practice in excursions to the national parliaments. This year the students are analysing and discussing current developments [...] impressions and knowledge. Further Information Department of Political Science and Communication Studies Contact at the University of Greifswald Dr. Stefan Ewert Department of Political Science and Communication

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agents or genome plasticity, which leads to pathogens with new or altered virulence factors. In order to fight these infections, it is immensely important to understand the pathogen and the immune or [...] master’s degree course aims to teach the students the fundamentals of the pathogen-host interactions at various levels. A further objective of the master’s degree course is to foster and train translational [...] participating institutes and working groups provide various elective modules. This enables students to enhance their profile by setting their own areas of specialisation. Applicants require an undergraduate

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published as a printed edition but is also available as an eBook. Subject to the current COVID-19 pandemic, the anthology will be presented to the public either at a reading or as a digital alternative during [...] finally, translated the short stories and poems on their own or in small groups.Teachers belonging to the involved departments provided them with assistance. In Zeitstücke , the emerging authors depict [...] ): Zeitstücke: Neue Nordische Novellen VII. Heiner Labonde Verlag, 2020. ISBN 978-3-937507-97-2. Contact at the University of Greifswald Noëmi Grimm and Anja Köneke Department of Finnish and Scandinavian

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According to the reasons for the decision, Dr. Jackelén manages in senior and the most senior of church offices, to answer challenges of the northern European civil and knowledge societies with targeted [...] the most senior of church offices to answer current challenges of the northern European civil and knowledge societies with targeted, critically founded contributions to discussions without bearing a clerical [...] targeted, critically founded contributions to discussions “without bearing a clerical attitude”. In Archbishop Dr. Antje Jackelén, the Faculty of Theology at the University of Greifswald is honouring a woman

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times. Access to on-site seminars and lectures is only permitted to persons who are fully vaccinated, tested, or who have fully recovered from a COVID-19 infection. It remains compulsory to wear masks inside [...] new additions to the University’s study offers this autumn. ‘We are pleased we can start the semester with a considerable increase in the number of on-site teaching formats that we are able to provide in [...] in safe conditions. I would like to thank all those of you who have have shown high levels of commitment to help prepare the new semester. Surveys of our students and staff members show that more than 90

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Kulturfest to get the public in the mood for the upcoming festival. Many well known music acts, who had agreed to participate in the core programme from 8 May are now contributing concert videos to the digital [...] charge on the internet. And those who have not been able to get to know Greifswald's Northern European festival so far, now have the opportunity to become new fans. In Iceland, singer/songwriter Myrra Rós [...] originally scheduled prior to the coronavirus outbreak. Other artists will address the audience directly in personal video clips. Interviews and pictures of the venues invite you to take a look behind the

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fragrances and flavouring, for example deodorants. Taxol is used to treat various kinds of cancer and artemisinin for treating malaria. To be able to produce the terpenoids in a precise an environmentally-friendly [...] of his doctorate, he completed a two-year postdoc position at NUS, before moving to the University of Basel in 2017 to take up a position as research fellow, where he conducted work on artificial meta [...] merged into synthetic metabolic pathways in microorganisms. During his stay in Greifswald, Dr. Wu plans to create new metabolic pathways in the bacterium Escherichia Coli , which would enable, for example,

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expect that this will make it possible for us to approach and solve future problems using digital means, providing the field of biocatalysis with the opportunity to master the transition into the digital age [...] and is supported by experts from engineering, and data and mathematics sciences. They all collaborate to effectively analyse large amounts of data from biocatalysis experiments. These analyses form the basis [...] group Prof. Dr. Uwe Bornscheuer [de] at the University of Greifswald’s Institute of Biochemistry Contact at the University of Greifswald Prof. Dr. Uwe Bornscheuer Institute of Biochemistry Felix-Hausdo

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in society and social activities, as well as overcoming personal restrictions and hurdles related to special life situations. During the ceremony, Falko Mahnhardt, a representative of Debeka, and the [...] Clemens Steinert is currently studying Protestant Theology. A Deutschlandstipendium scholarship amounts to € 300/month and is granted for a period of at least one year. Half of the sum is provided by the national [...] from companies, foundations, societies and private individuals. This year, the University would like to thank the following scholarship donors: apoBank-Stiftung Apothekerkammer Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Dr

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that we have been able to achieve in Greifswald, based on scientifically proven concepts. By means of international networking and the use of Community Medicine, we would like to achieve the same chances [...] paediatric dentists and 15 master’s students is working together with ORCA not only to gain new scientific insights, but also to include them directly in the treatment of patients or in school dentist visit [...] presidency will start with the annual congress in 2019 in Columbia. ‘It honours Greifswald that we are able to consolidate the introduction of ideas originating in Scandinavia for the prevention and treatment of

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critical situation. I am very grateful to Frank-Walter Steinmeier that he managed to find time to visit our Institute of Slavonic Studies and I’m looking forward to an interesting speech on current issues [...] able to secure this unique profile of Ukrainian Studies here in Greifswald, together with the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern”, said Frank-Walter Steinmeier. “The Federal Foreign Office helped to maintain [...] for Ukrainian Cultural Studies has now been advertised. The goal is to find someone for the position as soon as possible. Contact at the University of Greifswald Press and Media Relations Office Domstraße

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finally able to solve the structure of PETase; this was also made possible due to experiments held at the Diamond Light Source. However, PETase is only part of the solution. It is equally important to characterise [...] solving the structure of MHETase and then using this insight to optimise the enzyme for use in PET recycling. To do this, they first had to extract the enzyme from bacterial cells and purify it. This [...] X-ray light that is produced by the facility. “In order to see how MHETase binds to PET and decomposes it, you need a fragment of plastic that binds to MHETase but is not cleaved by it,” explains Weber. A

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summer drought. This is probably due to the fact that pine, as an evergreen conifer, is able to photosynthesise in warmer winters. In our forests we generally need to plant those tree species today that [...] and the research group of Prof. Kreyling, used tree rings to contribute to these pressing questions. In particular, they investigated where and to what extent tree growth was influenced by which climatic [...] growth of the deciduous tree species beech and oak along the southern Baltic Sea from the German coast to Estonia is mainly determined by summer conditions, especially water supply. And this influence of summer

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food. It helps cells to eliminate cellular waste, i.e. parts of the cell that are no longer needed. This process is also called autophagy. It is assumed that spermidine uses autophagy to slow down the ageing [...] in different brain areas, are an indicator for Alzheimer's disease. "To better understand this well-known contrast, we wanted to investigate the relationship between spermidine blood levels and established [...] used four MRI-based brain markers and were able to show that elevated spermidine blood levels were associated with advanced brain ageing according to all four markers. Study participants were healthy

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location for Nordic studies, which is closely related to the traditional ties the town has to the north of Europe due to its position right next to the Baltic Sea. The language classes for Nordic languages [...] departments of foreign languages and culture started to be created in the German Empire in 1918. Due to the joint German-Swedish history, the decision was made to found the Nordic Institute at the University of [...] audience to join in the group dance. Prof. Dr. Christer Lindqvist summarised the Department’s history during his celebratory speech. He not only highlighted the importance of Swedish in Greifswald due to the

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is appointed. The University of Greifswald expects to receive funds from the Stifterverband (Association of Foundations for German Science) amounting to € 450.000, for a maximum period of five years. Gr [...] need to address climate change and climate protection,’ stressed Science Minister Birgit Hesse during the signing of the target agreement in Schwerin. ‘Peatlands make a substantial contribution to the [...] threatened due to human use. Greifswald’s scientists are investigating how mankind and agriculture can use peatlands without destroying them. By creating this professorship, we wish to support these efforts

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The main goal of the DFG Research Unit VolImpact is to substantially improve the scholarly understanding of the ways the climate system reacts to volcanic eruptions. The data produced by satellite-based [...] Volcanic eruptions are one of the most significant natural causes of changes to the climate system. Although atmospheric research has been investigating the influence of volcanic eruptions for more than [...] sed measurements of corresponding atmospheric parameters will be used to make comprehensive models of the physical and chemical processes. The DFG Research Unit is made up of five scientific sub-projects

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tudentische-gremienwahlen/ What needs to be considered in the run-up to the election? Participation and electoral roll: A university e-mail account is required to participate in the election. You are listed [...] *** Dear students, the current legislature of student councils is coming to an end. From Tuesday, 9 January 2024, 8. 30 a. m. to Friday, 12 January 2024, 12.00 p.m. , the elections for the Student Parliament [...] candidacy: All enrolled students have the active and passive right to vote for the Student Parliament and the Student Council assigned to their course of study - i.e. they may vote and stand as candidates

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