national interests of the countries that belong to the Baltic Sea Region. The investigations not only focus on the work of the institutions dedicated to the Baltic Sea, such as the Council of the Baltic [...] knowledge to political stakeholders at state, regional and national levels, as well as authorities, business development companies and political institutions within the Baltic Sea Region. Contact at the [...] Sea is one of the world’s most closely linked cultural and economic regions. Topics that are relevant to the whole world can be investigated here: How do we address ecological problems, our joint cultural

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already managed to develop momentum that I have yet to see in Vorpommen,’ explains Rolf Kammann, General Manager of the Wirtschaftsfördergesellschaft Vorpommern . ‘Our important contribution to structural change [...] expanses of land, peatlands and sea harbours a significant potential for economic growth that has yet to be capitalised on. Pulses (leguminosae), such as the blue sweet lupin, are a valuable source of protein [...] fishermen. The combination of the scientific location Greifswald, with its research expertise owing to the University of Greifswald , the start-up centres of the WITENO GmbH and highly innovative small

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relationship to Estonia for several decades, which has also been cultivated by the university partnership with the University of Tartu . It was therefore a logical step for Greifswald to get involved in [...] various powers of the Baltic Sea Region. Thanks to their cultural heritage arising from former German, Swedish and Russian rule from the Middle Ages through to the 20 th Century and the current economic and [...] Region. The latter is at the heart of IFZO’s research interests. What places do to people and how they are transposed to literature is the topic of the literature forum ‘Texts - Tracks - Places’. Three

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by pneumococci is often underestimated, causing not only painful local infections, but also leading to meningitis in some cases. The vaccines that are available in the fight against pneumococci are only [...] at how virulence factors are localised on the surface of the pneumococci and how the natural ability to absorb DNA is controlled, and which new breakthroughs have been made in the search for a cross-serotype [...] Information Europneumo conference programme Conference page www.uni-greifswald.de/europneumo2019 Contact at the University of Greifswald Prof. Dr. Sven Hammerschmidt Department of Molecular Genetics and

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48 from Germany were included in the ranking. The universities were awarded their places according to data collected in 2018. By improving its THE Ranking, the University of Greifswald has reaffirmed its [...] The THE Ranking is among the serious, data-based rankings and thus enjoys an excellent reputation. Contact at the University of Greifswald Dr. Stefan Seiberling Research Support Centre Wollweberstraße 1,

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The challenge was to extend the studies along the entire chain of isotopes down to the short-lived isotopes as far as 177Hg, i.e. to half-lives of just the blink of an eye. To be able to measure this, the [...] it possible to answer the two previously unanswered questions: Does this jumping from one nuclear shape to another continue at lower mass numbers? And how can this unique behavior be traced to the internal [...] certain mercury isotopes. The phenomenon was traced to changes of the nuclear shape as a function of mass number A, namely back and forth from slightly oblate to the shape of a rugby ball. This striking behavior

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the plants to prey which they would not otherwise catch. The plant itself can save costs, because, for example, it doesn’t have to produce scents for attracting insects. Ultimately, this leads to the loss [...] different, for example, to car manufacturers; they cannot continue to produce without the cooperation of their suppliers.” In earlier investigations, the researchers were able to prove that the pitcher [...] service from an outside supplier, makes it possible for commercial companies to increase their own efficiency. Delegating services to more efficient partners can also make sense in nature. The team around Dr

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affected waste waters, in order to develop defence strategies and a quick test. The researchers can use labs at safety levels S1 to S3 for their research. This makes it possible to conduct research into model [...] guideline. The aim was to optimise the environmental impact, the functionality and efficiency with regards to energy and resource consumption for the building’s entire life cycle, as well as to create pleasant [...] central element of the C_FunGene [de] . This makes it possible to elucidate microbes’ adaptation mechanisms in various habitats in order to understand the molecular mechanisms of fundamental life processes

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different ions and, thus, better conditions to differentiate between species: The ‘mass resolving power’ increases with longer flight times. To allow ions to travel long distances even in a laboratory [...] ‘multi-reflection’ (MR) is comparable to a game of ‘ion ping-pong’, increasing the length of their flight path from one metre to several kilometres and the mass resolving power to values of several hundred thousand [...] two spectrometry stages are combined in sequence: First, the mass spectrometer is used to select clusters according to their size; then, reaction products are analysed following laser excitation. ‘In a first

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‘This is a fantastic opportunity for me to realise my scientific ideas,’ says Junior Professor Höhne, who, in summer, managed to convince the expert panel in Brussels to fund his project proposal, in face of [...] excellent opportunity to discover unknown territories: I plan, together with my team, to create ‘artificial proteins’ that catalyse unnatural reactions and use light energy in the process to enable the reactions [...] reactions,’ says Höhne. To optimise the proteins, we will use protein engineering methods. To start with, computer-aided modelling will help to design the first proteins. Then, thousands of variants will be

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a device to accumulate and store positrons and deliver these in pulses of unprecedented intensity. These will serve as tools to investigate a range of phenomena in physics, and are likely to open up new [...] IPP, and will then be integrated at NEPOMUC to expand its capabilities. “The planned multi-cell trap should make it possible to accumulate and deliver up to a trillion positrons in short, ultra-intense [...] source FRM II. The goal of the new project is to develop and then deploy a device that can accumulate positrons and then deliver them in intensive pulses to various experiments. The initial development

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passed from an animal to humans and which represent a huge challenge to society and medicine,” says Prof Dirk Heinz, Scientific Director of the HZI. Special attention will be given to infection epidemiology [...] fast pathogens are able to cross species barriers and political borders, in turn becoming a global threat. This outbreak clearly demonstrates that human health is closely related to the health of animals [...] this initiation phase as provisional founding director. The establishment of the institute goes back to a decision made by the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag. The plans for Greifswald’s new institute

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(2016). In its statement on the reasons for awarding the prize to Prof. Dr. Anna Wolff-Powęska, the jury of the Pomerania Nostra Prize refers to her publications on German-Polish relations that are held in [...] Poland which had been annexed by the Soviet Union. She grew up in Wągrowiec, a town which belonged to Prussia after Poland had been divided between 1793 and 1918. She studied at the Faculty of Philosophy [...] daily newspaper, and the periodical “Przegląd Zachodni”. Prof. Dr. Anna Wolff-Powęska is considered to be one of the most important Polish experts on German history and German-Polish relations. She has

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Medicine Göttingen, on the ‘Digitisation of Our Life. The End of Elucidation’. The Senior Award is awarded to established researchers for exceptional research in cooperation with the industry. This year’s awardee [...] the cardiovascular system, when the body’s own immune system attacks own proteins, which then leads to life-threatening complications for the patient. Cardiovascular disease is the most frequent cause of [...] of death in Germany. The start-up team from SoTaMed, Dr. Jenny Schulz and Balazs Baranyai, are to receive the Business Award for the development of a procedure for cultivating sundew on rewetted raised

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