Both populism and antisemitism have been on the rise in the United States and around the world in the last decade. However, there is surprisingly little empirical research exploring this relationship. The lecture 1) presents evidence of rising…

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In Kant‘s view, progress towards the realization of the moral ideal begins with the individual radical change of mind, but it ultimately depends on the human capacity to form collectives driven by shared rational norms. This is an empowering…

The influence of sex (biological sex) and gender (social gender) on surgical outcomes is becoming increasingly important. This symposium is dedicated to the question of how gender-specific aspects influence clinical outcomes. The focus is on…

The intestinal tract is a mix of cells, including immune cells that balance tolerance and activation. Single-cell RNA-sequencing identified > 20 immune cell types in the porcine intestine, in addition to > 10 enterocyte populations. Spatial…

Spinors, which can be thought of as "square roots" of vectors, play a key role in differential geometry (the study of multidimensional smooth, curved spaces), with beautiful and often surprising connections to many areas within the subject. The most…

A neglected question in the history of scholarship is how and why Gerhard von Rad, the great Protestant theologian, nominated Karl Georg Kuhn to the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Kuhn, who pioneered the field of German Dead Sea Scrolls…

In reading Serhiy Zhadan’s novel Voroshilovgrad (2010), set in a fictional Ukraine in the early 2000s, an imaginative world where the dead and the living intermingle, and NoViolet Bulawayo’s Glory (2022), set in a fictional Zimbabwe in the 2010s,…

Human clinical surveillance in the African tropics
Dr. Sarah-Matio Elangwe Milo (Helmholtz-Institut für One Health, Greifswald)
At the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) in Greifswald, we acknowledge the interconnection between the health of…

Functions of immune cells are linked to metabolic profiles, which are affected by changes in the tissue microenvironment. Focusing on bone regeneration after injury, we aim to understand how the microenvironment affects the metabolism of myeloid…