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• After 9 years of funding

  News | 26.05.2026

  Closing Symposium of the Research Training Group “Neurobiology of social and emotional dysfunctions ”  

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• Sex Pheromone of a sandgrain-sized insect deciphered

  News | 20.04.2026

  Parasitic wasps respond to extremely small scent quantities

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• No Offspring Without De Novo Fatty Acid Synthesis

  News | 15.04.2026

  Study reveals the central role of lipogenesis in parasitic wasps

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• 8th Biennial Meeting of the LARP Society “RNA-Binding Proteins in Disease” 

  News | 25.03.2026

  Join us for the 8th Biennial Meeting of the LARP Society “RNA-Binding Proteins in Disease”, taking place 02–04 September 2026 in Regensburg, Germany.

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• Heatwaves pose potential threat to bumblebees 

  News | 17.12.2025

  Thermal stress reduces pupal emergence

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• Protein factories under heat stress: What archaea can teach us about RNA stability

  News | 25.11.2025

  How heat-loving archaea adapt their cellular machinery to survive, and why this may be important for vaccine development.

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• Climate stress in adolescence weakens bumblebees for life 

  News | 14.10.2025

  Early stress endangers reproduction and survival of pollinators

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• And yet they move (external link, opens in a new window)

  News | 27.08.2025

  Researchers reveal the movements of large molecular machines by combining a variety of biophysical techniques

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• And yet they move

  News | 27.08.2025

  Researchers reveal the movements of large molecular machines by combining a variety of biophysical techniques

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• One protein, two light-activated states (external link, opens in a new window)

  News | 19.08.2025

  Researchers have gained new insights into an ion channel from algae. They could help optogenetics to realise its full potential in the future.

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