Press release shortlisted for idw Prize

Press release shortlisted for idw Prize

The press release about our publication in Science in 2023 has been shortlisted for the Audience Choice Award in Science Communication by the German Science Information Service (Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, IDW). We are excited about the outcome which will be...
Congratulations to medac Research Award 2023

Congratulations to medac Research Award 2023

We are happy to congratulate the winners of the medac Research Award 2023 for their outstanding interdisciplinary collaboration, which has led to a publication in Science. The full article of the award ceremony can be found here. Image credit: Anna Schroll /...
Former Leibniz president Matthias Kleiner visited us

Former Leibniz president Matthias Kleiner visited us

On Tuesday, 20th February, we welcomed Prof. Dr. Matthias Kleiner in our group. As the former president of the Leibniz Association from 2014 to 2022, he made a major contribution to cooperative science, which characterises the more than 90 existing Leibniz institutes....
Loic Kemadjou Pienkep

Loic Kemadjou Pienkep

Loic Kemadjou Pienkep Student research assistant Phone: +49 3641 532-1376Email: loic.kemadjou.pienkep@leibniz-hki.de   Kemadjou Loic is from Cameroon, more precisely from Jaunde. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry at the University of Jaunde...
Second round of WSS colloquium

Second round of WSS colloquium

On Monday, 22nd January, we hosted the second Werner Siemens colloquium together with the Microbiome Sciences group of Christina Warinner from the MPI-EVA. Under the theme “Genomic Evolution of Microbial Functions: past to present” four distinguished...