The post-holder is expected to engage in research on a topic related to territorial, institutional, social, cultural or virtual (digital) bordering, boundaries, territorial borderlands, or borderscapes [...] full-time position starts in January 30, 2023, and is attached to a Horizon Twinning project "Advancing Trans-Regional Border Studies" (to be launched in November 1, 2022), with funds and extra opportunities [...] conduct PhD research and contribute to the project. More info and application: https://www.tlu.ee/en/doctoral-admission-2023-spring-semester#school-of-humanities . Please contact Karin Dean ( karin.dean@tlu.ee

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2406 would like to find out how marine bacteria are able to utilise the seas’ complex algae sugars. The aim is to determine all of the genomes and proteins of marine bacterial communities, to elucidate the [...] required. Nature has established a community of various bacteria that work hand in hand to perform this task. In order to gain a better understanding of the microbes’ strategies for degrading sugar, the researchers [...] the details of their enzymatic functions and to investigate the bacteria’s specific adaptation mechanisms. The DFG Research Unit POMPU helps to elucidate important ecological functions of marine bacteria

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training groups ‘Contact Zone Mare Balticum’ and ‘Baltic Borderlands’ and is currently spokesperson of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO). In addition to working together [...] the worldwide reception of his works, which have been published in 15 languages and stand out due to their good readability. The honorary doctor also recognises Greifswald’s development into the international [...] Office at pressestelle@uni-greifswald.de . If published, the author of the image must be named. Contact at the University of Greifswald Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael North Chair of Modern History Department

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social exclusion are related to brain activity in the areas of the so-called social brain, which is linked to the navigation of complex social environments and makes it easier to interact and cooperate with [...] social functions. It delivers information on how it is possible to support the development of the social brain and, as a result, how to foster social competency at school. The study was financed by a grant [...] http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13613 For more information about the study, please contact Prof. Dr. Dr. Diana Raufelder. Contact at the University of Greifswald Prof. Dr. Dr. Diana Raufelder Department of

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The goal is to elucidate the host-pathogen interactions, the course of illness and the host immune response in order to produce new strategies for fighting and preventing illness. Pigs are to be established [...] clinical use. Contact at the University of Greifswald Press and Media Relations Office Domstraße 11 17489 Greifswald Tel.: +49 3834 86-1150 pressestelle(at)uni-greifswald(dot)de Contact at the Friedri [...] infections in which not only bacterial, but also viral pathogens are found in the organism, leading to severe courses of illness. Coinfections can affect both humans and animals. In particular, coinfections

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Pursuant to the decision made on the 17 th January 2018, the University’s Basic Regulations will be changed to read as follows: “The University in Greifswald carries the name Universität Greifswald ; this [...] uniform appearance in legal matters must be ensured.” The change to the Basic Regulations will not be effective until it has been agreed to by the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s Ministry of Education [...] this can be preceded by the supplementary name Ernst Moritz Arndt subject to the provisions made in an ordinance that must be passed by the Reduced Senate after hearing the Extended Senate. At the same

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History welcomes its new guest and is looking forward to exciting research impulses. ‘We are proud that with Professor Seppel’s decision to come to Greifswald for his Humboldt Fellowship, the Department [...] field of demesne farming in the territories east of the river Elbe. It therefore made sense for me to contact him when I was applying for the Humboldt fellowship,’ explains Prof. Seppel. And also the archives [...] Every year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables 2,000 researchers from all over the world to come to Germany for a period of academic stay. The foundation maintains a network of more than 28,000 Humboldt

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Programme to explicitly strengthen fundamental research in the arts and social sciences from 2017 to 2020. The programme's namesake is the classicist Kurt von Fritz, who was the only German Professor to refuse [...] refuse the oath to Adolf Hitler in 1934, as he felt it was not compatible with the freedom of research. “Arts and social sciences help us to gain understanding for the world. They analyse human history, the [...] professor). In addition to the 10 projects at the University of Greifswald, 15 projects at the University of Rostock and two at the HMT Rostock also received funding, amounting to a total of 2.5 million

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until now it was presumed that these females only help to catch prey and build webs, as only females who are at the stage of maternal care, are able to regurgitate. This is true for spider species that do [...] her genes to the next generation. The so-called kin selection increases the evolutionary overall fitness of the unmated females and explains how this seemingly selfless behaviour was able to evolve from [...] together in nests, with several hundred of their own kind. In such a nest, the animals work together to catch prey and build webs. Mothers with offspring even help each other out with the arduous care of

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PhD student Monica Sheffer hosted two interns this summer to work on projects related to metabolomic responses to different winter conditions in Argiope bruennichi spiderlings. Jasper Murphy and Kate Miller [...] Miller, bachelors students from UC Berkeley, stayed from May 26th to August 17th, 2019. Monica applied for and received funding for Jasper's internship through the RISE DAAD Germany Program . Jasper's [...] the University of Greifswald and the Institute for European Studies in Berkeley. Kate's project aimed to test the homeoviscous adaptation hypothesis in A. bruennichi by investigating the fatty acid composition

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exchange visit. From 9-21 June, a group of four students training to be teachers and two university lecturers will visit Greifswald to participate in the school project “Schule Machen” and attend university [...] the University of Michigan-Flint (UMF) started their partnership in 2018. Both universities strive to internationalise teacher-training degrees by implementing measures such as joint research and student [...] university lectures and seminars. The visiting students will team up with German students to carry out research whilst putting their theoretical teaching skills into practice. The photo can be downloaded and

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