News 2016

01.06.2016: Tumor immunologist Muhammad Asif Qureshi will use his Humboldt Research Fellowship to conduct research at the Mainz University Medical Center

Research focus on immunotherapeutic approaches for the treatment of liver cancer ...

31.05.2016: Nobel Prize winner Carl Wieman receives the 2016 Gutenberg Teaching Award

Nobel laureate in Physics has distinguished himself in many ways both as an exceptional researcher and as a teacher ...

30.05.2016: Geophysicist Boris Kaus receives ERC Proof of Concept Grant

EU funding for research on new methods for locating oil and gas reserves around salt deposits ...

25.05.2016: International team of scientists realizes a compact, efficient wideband source of terahertz radiation emitters

Spintronics paves the way for new terahertz sources ...

24.05.2016: Outstanding placements for Mainz University in the international CWTS Leiden Ranking 2016

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ranks in the top group of European universities in the fields of Geosciences, Physics, and Social Sciences ...

12.05.2016: ERC Advanced Grant for experimental physicist Dmitry Budker

Physicist of Mainz University receives EU funding for his search for dark matter and dark energy ...

12.05.2016: Moviegoers' exhaled breath reveals the scene that is playing

Every movie leaves a characteristic pattern of chemical compounds in the air ...

06.05.2016: One step closer to the development of an ultra-precise nuclear clock

Measuring time using oscillations of atomic nuclei might significantly improve precision beyond that of current atomic clocks ...

03.05.2016: Gutenberg Research College welcomes Klaus Müllen as a new fellow and presents the Gutenberg Research Award 2016 to Vishva Dixit

GRC focuses on the promotion of individual excellence ...

03.05.2016: Gutenberg Research Award 2016 goes to cell death researcher Vishva Dixit

Laureate Vishva Dixit is considered a pioneer in fundamental biomedical research ...

28.04.2016: Christof Niehrs elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Founding Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) becomes a Foreign Honorary Member ...

21.04.2016: New genetic risk factors for myopia discovered

Genes and environment determine short-sightedness ...

20.04.2016: Brain stem cell quiescence needs to be actively maintained in Drosophila

Hippo signaling pathway regulates quiescence in the neural stem cells of Drosophila larvae ...

15.04.2016: Physicists build the world’s smallest heat engine

Innovative heat engine uses just a single electrically charged calcium atom ...

14.04.2016: Researchers hunt for the causes and basis of wheat sensitivities

German Research Foundation funds joint project of the universities in Mainz and Hohenheim to search for better tolerated wheat varieties ...

14.04.2016: First particles circulate in SuperKEKB accelerator

Mainz-based physicists involved in detector construction and analysis of future experiments ...

10.03.2016: German Federal Foreign Office sponsors conservation of the early-Islamic caliphate palace of Khirbat al-Minya in Israel

Department of Ancient Studies at Mainz University to receive further financial support through the Cultural Preservation Program of the German Federal Foreign Office ...

08.03.2016: Division of labor among social insects: All-rounders cope better than specialists in the face of threats

Ant colonies that are highly specialized have lower chances of survival when sudden changes occur ...

07.03.2016: International research team achieves controlled movement of skyrmions

Basis for the utilization of skyrmions for application-related systems / Magnetic vortices as data storage media of the future ...

04.03.2016: First code of conduct for the use of virtual reality established

Michael Madary and Thomas Metzinger summarize problems and offer recommendations for the future of VR ...