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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

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

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
"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)

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
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)