14.08.2020 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 (article with quotations from Dr. Stefan Prost, TBG, in the print edition of “Der Spiegel”, No. 34 of 14.08.2020; in German)
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10.08.2020 When the worm reaches for the poison. Research into native nematodes provides insight into the evolutionary development and economic use of animal toxins (TBG press release (in German) on a publication in the journal Marine Drugs)
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06.08.2020 The tuatara – a living fossil (article with quotations from Dr. Stefan Prost, TBG, at Wissenschaft.de under ” Picture of the week”; in German)
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06.08.2020 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 (TBG press release (in German) on a publication in the journal Nature)
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01.08.2020 Article in the NZZ am Sonntag on the discussion about wild animal markets and their role in the corona pandemic (with comments by Dr. Stefan Prost, TBG; in German)
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25.07.2020 “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 (Die Sendung mit der Maus – Lach- und Sachgeschichten zum Hören. Under: Podcast 60 Min, starting at minute 41:33, in German)
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22.07.2020 Promising biomolecules discovered from the unusual venom of the wasp spider (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)
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21.07.2020 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 (starting at minute 39:48, in German)
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10.07.2020 Early warning system for pandemics. International group of researchers develops strategies against virus transmission from wild animals to humans (TBG press release (in German) on a comment in the journal Science)
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10.07.2020 dpa-article on the current UN report on the illegal trade in wild animals and plants (with quotation from Dr. Stefan Prost, TBG, published among others in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in German)
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07.07.2020 With the backpack lab into the jungle – portable PCR and sequencing devices revolutionize genomic field studies (article by Dr. Stefan Prost, TBG, in “Laborjournal”, in German)
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29.06.2020 The benefits of biological diversity – LOEWE Centre TBG on board the MS Wissenschaft 2020 (report and links on the ProLOEWE website, in German)
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08.06.2020 “Evolutionary Vertebrate Genomics” – LOEWE-TBG develops and tests course concept for the Goethe University Frankfurt (report and links to publications on the ProLOEWE website, in German)
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04.05.2020 Honeybees as drug investigators – FAZ reports on Andreas Vilcinskas (LOEWE-ZIB and LOEWE-TBG) and the versatile application possibilities of the insects
(summary of the article and link to the FAZ Plus page on the ProLOEWE website, in German)
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16.04.2020 Closing all wildlife markets is too short a plan. In conversation with Senckenberg researcher Stefan Prost (contribution on the Senckenberg website, in German)
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01.04.2020 Corona Virus origin: doubts about bat and pangolin as carriers – Stefan Prost of LOEWE-TBG expresses himself in a contribution of science.ORF.at (in German)
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25.02.2020 TBG-Press release regarding the international conference “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)
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25.02.2020 TBG-Press invitation to the international conference “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)
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14.02.2020 Press release of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art regarding the future LOEWE research funding (with picture of LOEWE-TBG speaker Prof. Axel Janke) (press release in German)
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17.10.2019 TBG-Press release regarding the Nature Microbiology-Publication of Prof. Helge B. Bode
A deeper look into the treasure chest within microbes
published in the online-magazine of Goethe-University Frankfurt
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02.11.2018 Public release of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute:
Launch of global effort to read genetic code of all complex life on earth
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17.4.2018 News item on Bioökonomie.de (in German):
Tausende Genome entziffern
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5.4.2018 Presse release of the Goethe-University Frankfurt (in German):
Blauwal-Erbgut enthüllt Paarung über Artgrenzen hinweg
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12.3.2018 News item on Bioökonomie.de (in German):
LOEWE-Zentrum startet Genom-Offensive
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12.3.2018 News item in transkript (in German):
Sequenziere, wer kann
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9.3.2018 Press release of ANSA (in Italian):
L”Arca di Noè’ delle specie dimenticate
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8.3.2018 Press release of the Frankfurter Rundschau (in German):
Das Potenzial der Vielfalt nutzen
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8.3.2018 Press release of the Senckenberg Nature Research Society (in German):
Hessische Forscher wollen den Code allen Lebens knacken – Startschuss für LOEWE-Forschungszentrum
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8.3.2018 Press release of the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts (in German):
Neues LOEWE-Zentrum untersucht Gen-Vielfalt bei Pflanzen und Tieren
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6.7.2017 News item in Science:
E. Pennisi – Germans provide big boost for sequencing often ignored organisms
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5.7.2017 Press release of the Senckenberg Nature Research Society (in German):
Die Vielfalt des Erbgutes – 17,6 Millionen Euro für die Erforschung genomischer Diversität im Tier- und Pflanzenreich
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5.7.2017 Press release of the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts (in German):
Wissenschaftler erhalten 66,5 Millionen Euro aus dem Forschungsförderprogramm LOEWE
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