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Programm summer semester 2024

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Wednesday, 23. October 2024 Saturday, 26. October 2024
International conference, Focus: SOCIETY

Nodes of knowledge – Manor houses in the 18th century

Final conference of the research project Manor House Centre of the Baltic Sea Region

The team of the Manor House Center of the Baltic Sea Region invites you to the final conference to present and discuss the results of their three years of research. For centuries, the Baltic Sea region has been a center of complex relationships that…

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Tuesday, 29. October 2024 6:00 pm
Focus: EARTH, ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE

Mitochondrial responses and adaptations to stress: What can we learn from stress-tolerant marine organisms?

Public lecture as part of the lecture series “Planet Earth 3.0 - Living in a changing world” by Professor Dr. Inna M. Sokolova (University of Rostock, Institute of Biosciences)

Mitochondria are essential for ATP production and stress responses in aerobic organisms but are sensitive to fluctuations in oxygen, temperature, and salinity. Hypoxia-sensitive species often suffer mitochondrial damage due to reactive oxygen species…

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Monday, 18. November 2024 6:00 pm
Focus: HEALTH & LIFE

Advancing the development of an improved vaccine for tuberculosis

Fellow Lecture by Associate Professor Andreas Kupz, Ph. D. (Fellow of the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald/James Cook University)

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading infectious causes of death globally claiming ~1.5 million lives per year. The only licensed TB vaccine, Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG), which is used to prevent TB in children, fails to protect against pulmonary…

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Tuesday, 10. December 2024 6:00 pm
Focus: EARTH, ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE

Seasonal adaptations of forest insects: Eco-physiological research on bark beetles and some other bugs to assess impacts on key ecosystems

Public talk by Privatdozent Dr. Martin Schebeck (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection) as part of the lecture series “Planet Earth 3.0 – Living in a changing world”

Insects play key roles in forest ecosystems, e.g. as pollinators, as parts of food webs or as landscape engineers. The lifecycles of many species are regulated by abiotic environmental conditions, such as temperature or photoperiod, affecting…

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