Towards a coherent application of Human Rights Law in Europe

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.

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Locust outbreak in Kenya: Interview with Dr Einat Couzin-Fuchs

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".

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Dem Ursprung der Symbiose auf der Spur

Der Limnologe Lutz Becks von der Universität Konstanz erhält Förderung von der Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation für ein Forschungsprojekt, das neue Erkenntnisse dazu liefern wird, warum und auf welche Weise sich Individuen zweier Arten zu einer einzigen Lebensform entwickeln.

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A potential new pathway linking stress to heart disease

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).

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