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University of Konstanz assists with coronavirus diagnostics: A team at the University of Konstanz, including Professor Christof Hauck, Dr Marcus Groettrup and Professor Thomas Mayer from the Department of Biology, is currently assisting with testing for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).

Using virtual reality to uncover the secrets of animal behaviour: Talk by Konstanz scientist Hemal Naik at the all-online IEEE VR 2020 meeting with opportunities for journalists to take part

Baby Speech Lab at the University of Konstanz participates in international study on infant-directed speech

The University of Konstanz’s crisis task force directed the university campus to close with standby operations at 18:00 on Monday, 16 March 2020.

Research team from the University of Konstanz and Utrecht University elucidates the aggregation mechanism of the Alzheimer protein tau

New Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz: Postdoctoral researcher Dr Nasiya Daminova specialises in European Human Rights Law. With funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she will address the specific challenge of offering suggestions for a coherent European judicial policy in the area of due process rights.

Dr Einat Couzin-Fuchs from the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" at the University of Konstanz has just returned from the locust outbreak in Kenya where her team of researchers are doing something rarely done with natural plagues: basic scientific research. She describes what her team saw, what they are doing, and her hopes for how science can contribute to controlling outbreaks. Read the interview with her in our online magazine "campus.kn".

Limnologist Lutz Becks from the University of Konstanz receives funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for a research project that investigates why and how individuals of two species merge into a single life form.

While decades of research have finally confirmed that stress is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, understanding the physiological mechanisms of how this occurs is far from being a closed case: Now, Konstanz scientists from the Department of Psychology and the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" have uncovered a potential new pathway linking stress to cardiovascular disease on the basis of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone-System (RAAS).