Teaser: The researchers Hemal Naik, Akanksha Rathore, and Vivek Hari Sridhar went to Rajasthan, India, to study the mating behaviour of blackbucks from a bird's eye perspective. Read what they encountered during six adventurous weeks in the field.
With a new marker less method it is now possible to track the gaze and fine-scaled behaviours of every individual bird and how that animal moves in the space with others. A research team from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) at the University of Konstanz developed a dataset to advance behavioural research.
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has elected molecular biologist Elke Deuerling from the University of Konstanz as a member. EMBO membership is awarded to researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the life sciences.
The European Commission will continue funding the European University for Well-Being (EUniWell) within the framework of ERASMUS+. The University of Konstanz’s current project partner in the European Universities Initiative, the European Reform University Alliance (ERUA), also received a funding extension.
Astonishing results published from individual projects of the Tara Pacific expedition studying coral reefs – the entire dataset is made publicly available – coordinator is a biologist from the University of Konstanz
The University of Konstanz holds top position nationwide in the 2023 CWTS Leiden Ranking for the categories "open access" and "international collaboration", and ranks among the global top 150.
Researchers from Konstanz and Zurich have deciphered a biochemical mechanism that ensures that newly formed proteins are processed correctly when they leave the cell's own protein factories. This solves a decade-old puzzle in protein sorting.
