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The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an ERC Synergy Grant of 9,996,000 Euros to the project “The role of silica at the dawn of life on our planet” (PROTOS). In the project, Helmut Cölfen, professor of physical chemistry at the University of Konstanz, will collaborate with researchers from the University of Bremen, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS-Geo-Ocean) in Brest, and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC ) in Granada that coordinates the project.

University of Konstanz again recognized for its key role in advancing equal opportunity

An interdisciplinary project led by primatologist Gisela Kopp is using genetic analysis to determine the geographic origin of mummified baboons found in ancient Egypt. The team finds evidence that the two legendary trading regions of Punt and Adulis may have been the same place separated by a thousand years of history.

CASCB health psychologist Britta Renner joined the citizen's council "Ernährung im Wandel" as a member of the scientific advisory board.

Proteostasis research is a young interdisciplinary field dedicated to the fundamental biochemical processes of life. At the University of Konstanz, pioneering research on the topic of proteostasis has been carried out since 2012, within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre "Chemical and Biological Principles of Cellular Proteostasis" (SFB 969). In December 2023, this SFB will expire. We look back on twelve successful years, while looking ahead to new perspectives that have opened…

Sometimes it is worthwhile to look at the details, to study aspects that seem to be uninteresting or were previously ignored, and see noteworthy phenomena come to light. This has been the experience of honeybee researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) at the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. In a recently published study in Animal Behaviour, they showed that male honey bees (drones), long…

Researchers from the University of Vienna, University of Konstanz, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine uncover a potential environmental trigger for Parkinson's disease.

The University of Konstanz has developed a tool to cut down on academic air travel on a voluntary basis: the carbon tax..

It contributed to a whole new perception of nature and yet soon became an environmental problem: How automobility changed people’s relationship to the environment and how this is reflected in American road literature is the subject of the ERC project of literary scholar Timo Müller, professor of American studies at the University of Konstanz.