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Nominate your favourite mollusc for FREE genome sequencing by the Senckenberg Museum and LOEWE-Translational Biodiversity Genomics centre!
30.11.2020
Let's have a good start to 2021!! Senckenberg/LOEWE-TBG and Unitas Malacologica will select 5 top molluscs from the nominations, and the final winner will be determined by a popular vote in January.
Any living species of mollusc, in any habitat, anywhere in the world is eligible!
Researchers of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and the LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (TBG) develop a new test to better assess environmental impact of substances
20.11.2020
(SGN/TBG press release on a publication in the journal Environmental Pollution)
Image: © Markus Pfenninger
Animal poisons as a source of novel bioresources
19.11.2020
(Article about the research field of Venomics by TBG scientists Tim Lüddecke und Björn von Reumont in the journal BIOspektrum (in German))
Partial autonomy. How species separate, but not entirely
Image: © lkpro / shutterstock.com
Controlled poisoning. Study provides deeper insight into the regulation of bacterial agents
03.11.2020
(TBG press release on a publication in the journal Nature Microbiology)
Image: © D. Kucharski, K. Kucharska/Shutterstock.com
Deciphering the genome of bats
31.10.2020
(Interview with TBG Prof. Dr. Michael Hiller on the Senckenberg website)
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Image: Myotis myotis © Oliver Farcy
New in the LOEWE TBG team: PI Dr. Kornelia Hardes, who has just been granted BMBF funding to establish her own junior research group in infection research and is heading the level three security laboratory at the new Fraunhofer Institute for Bioresources in Gießen.
01.10.2020
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Measuring and monitoring biodiversity with molecular biological methods. Functional Environmental Genomics in Focus: Joint appointment of the University of Giessen and the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
24.09.2020
(SGN/JLU press release on the appointment of PD Dr. rer. nat. Miklós Bálint as Professor and Head of the Project Area Functional Environmental Genomics of the LOEWE Centre for Translational BiodiversityGenomics (TBG))
Image: © JLU / Katrina Friese
Characterize living beings and learn from them. Genomist Michael Hiller takes over new professorship at LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics
02.09.2020
(TBG press release on the appointment of Dr. Michael Hiller as Professor at Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and Goethe University Frankfurt, and PI in the Project Area Comparative Genomics of the LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (TBG))
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Image: © Sven Tränkner/Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
Island of Methuselah. Researchers have deciphered the tuatara’s genetic makeup. These primordial animals once emerged from a catastrophe. Now they could help us understand why we age
14.08.2020
(article with quotations from Dr. Stefan Prost, TBG, in the print edition of “Der Spiegel”, No. 34 of 14.08.2020; in German)
When the worm reaches for the poison. Research into native nematodes provides insight into the evolutionary development and economic use of animal toxins
10.08.2020
(TBG press release (in German) on a publication in the journal Marine Drugs)
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Image: © Rainer Borcherding / Schutzstation Wattenmeer
The tuatara – a living fossil
06.08.2020
(article with quotations from Dr. Stefan Prost, TBG, at Wissenschaft.de under " Picture of the week"; in German)
Evolutionary secret of "living fossil" revealed. The world's first sequencing of the tuatara genome sheds light on the relationship between reptiles and longevity in the animal kingdom
06.08.2020
(TBG press release (in German) on a publication in the journal Nature)
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Image: © Bernard Spragg. NZ
Article in the NZZ am Sonntag on the discussion about wild animal markets and their role in the corona pandemic
01.08.2020
(with comments by Dr. Stefan Prost, TBG; in German)
"Why do you have eye color?" Interview with Dr. Carola Greve, LOEWE-TBG laboratory manager, on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the British biochemist and DNA specialist Rosalind Franklin
25.07.2020
(Die Sendung mit der Maus – Lach- und Sachgeschichten zum Hören. Under: Podcast 60 Min, starting at minute 41:33, in German)
Promising biomolecules discovered from the unusual venom of the wasp spider
22.07.2020
(Press release of the Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen on a publication of the TBG research group “Animal Venomics” in the journal “Biomolecules”; in German)
Evolutionary geneticist and LOEWE-TBG speaker Prof. Axel Janke in the television programme “hallo hessen” of Hessischer Rundfunk about his research at the Senckenberg Institute and the biodiversity of mammals
21.07.2020
(starting at minute 39:48, in German)
Early warning system for pandemics. International group of researchers develops strategies against virus transmission from wild animals to humans
10.07.2020
(TBG press release (in German) on a comment in the journal Science)
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Image: © Dan Bennett / CC BY
dpa-article on the current UN report on the illegal trade in wild animals and plants
10.07.2020
(with quotation from Dr. Stefan Prost, TBG, published among others in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in German)
With the backpack lab into the jungle – portable PCR and sequencing devices revolutionize genomic field studies
07.07.2020
(article by Dr. Stefan Prost, TBG, in “Laborjournal”, in German)
The benefits of biological diversity – LOEWE Centre TBG on board the MS Wissenschaft 2020
29.06.2020
(report and links on the ProLOEWE website, in German)
“Evolutionary Vertebrate Genomics” – LOEWE-TBG develops and tests course concept for the Goethe University Frankfurt
08.06.2020
(report and links to publications on the ProLOEWE website, in German)
Honeybees as drug investigators – FAZ reports on Andreas Vilcinskas (LOEWE-ZIB and LOEWE-TBG) and the versatile application possibilities of the insects
04.05.2020
(summary of the article and link to the FAZ Plus page on the ProLOEWE website, in German)
Closing all wildlife markets is too short a plan.
16.04.2020
In conversation with Senckenberg researcher Stefan Prost (contribution on the Senckenberg website, in German)
Corona Virus origin: doubts about bat and pangolin as carriers
01.04.2020
Stefan Prost of LOEWE-TBG expresses himself in a contribution of science.ORF.at (in German)
TBG-Press release regarding the international conference
25.02.2020
4th Annual Meeting in Conservation Genetics – From Genomes to Application“ held in Frankfurt am Main from 26.-28.02.2020 at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum (press release in German)
TBG-Press invitation to the international conference
25.02.2020
4th Annual Meeting in Conservation Genetics – From Genomes to Application“ held in Frankfurt am Main from 26.-28.02.2020 at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum (press invitation in German)
Press release of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art regarding the future LOEWE research funding
14.02.2020
(with picture of LOEWE-TBG speaker Prof. Axel Janke) (press release in German)
TBG-Press release regarding the Nature Microbiology-Publication of Prof. Helge B. Bode
17.10.2019
A deeper look into the treasure chest within microbes published in the online-magazine of Goethe-University Frankfurt
Public release of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute:
02.11.2018
Launch of global effort to read genetic code of all complex life on earth
Public release of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute:
02.11.2018
Launch of global effort to read genetic code of all complex life on earth
News item on Bioökonomie.de (in German)
17.4.2018
Tausende Genome entziffern
Press release of the Goethe-University Frankfurt (in German):
5.4.2018
Blauwal-Erbgut enthüllt Paarung über Artgrenzen hinweg
News item in transkript (in German)
12.3.2018
Sequenziere, wer kann
Press release of ANSA (in Italian)
9.3.2018
L”Arca di Noè’ delle specie dimenticate
Press release of the Frankfurter Rundschau (in German)
8.3.2018
Hessische Forscher wollen den Code allen Lebens knacken – Startschuss für LOEWE-Forschungszentrum
Press release of the Senckenberg Nature Research Society (in German)
8.3.2018
Hessische Forscher wollen den Code allen Lebens knacken – Startschuss für LOEWE-Forschungszentrum
Press release of the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts (in German)
8.3.2018
Neues LOEWE-Zentrum untersucht Gen-Vielfalt bei Pflanzen und Tieren
Press release of the Senckenberg Nature Research Society (in German)
5.7.2017
Die Vielfalt des Erbgutes – 17,6 Millionen Euro für die Erforschung genomischer Diversität im Tier- und Pflanzenreich
Press release of the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts (in German)
5.7.2017
Wissenschaftler erhalten 66,5 Millionen Euro aus dem Forschungsförderprogramm LOEWE