Press Releases 2016
Identifying Brain Regions Automatically1
Biologists develop a new method for analyzing brain images and demonstrate it with a study on fruit flies
Adipose analysis on microfluidic chips2
Platform works with minute quantities of liquid to grow cells and study their development
Hits of the Renaissance to the 20th Century 3
A new online portal collects 14,000 historical song pamphlets and makes them available to a broad public
How Toxins Activate Cellular Guides4
A diarrhoea pathogen modifies the surface of intestinal cells, enabling bacteria to colonize it more easily
Dancing Neurons 5
How synaptic connections in the brain force nerve cells to coordinate their work
Freiburg Biologists Explain Function of Pentagone6
Study shows how the protein controls the development of fruit fly wings
Fighting Resistant Blood Cancer Cells 7
Biologists present new findings on chronic myeloid leukemia and possible therapeutic approaches
Harvard Comes to Freiburg8
University of Freiburg welcomes 20 students from the elite American university to a summer school
Earn a Master’s in Global Urban Health 9
Continuing education program on urban health to be launched in the 2016/17 winter semester
New Model of T Cell Activation10
Biologists from the University Freiburg show that cholesterol prevents an immune response, even when no antigen is present
2.3 Million Euros for Young Researchers 11
The University of Freiburg is collaborating on a project that aims to use plant models to develop new materials
How Neural Circuits Implement Natural Vision 12
Researchers have designed a new computational model to study how nerve cells in the visual cortex process natural stimuli
Evolution of Cellular Power Stations13
The protein OXA plays an important role in integrating protein molecules into mitochondria
University of Freiburg Launches Master in Neuroscience14
New interdisciplinary program will have an international orientation
Thinking Knows No Boundaries15
European Campus officially opened – Hans-Jochen Schiewer elected as first president
Predicting Precision of Movement Tasks16
Procedure uses brain signals to make prognosis on precision of movement
Center for Modern China Studies Opens17
University of Freiburg and Nanjing University strengthen their strategic partnership with institutes in both cities
Natural Sciences and Languages in Top Group18
Fields of study at the University of Freiburg receive good scores on the new Centre for Higher Education ranking
Faulty Connection 19
Disturbed transmission of signals in the cerebrum promises new findings for epilepsy research
Fighting Epidemics in Africa 20
Researchers develop a rapid test for diagnosing malaria and other tropical diseases out of blood in a single run
