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At the annual Young Talent Awards for the technical and scientific fields eight science students from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ were awarded.

A project aimed to optimize potato plant growth by mapping the microorganisms living on seed potatoes has been awarded a 940.000 euro funding.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ researcher Kathryn Barry has been granted an award that acknowledges talented researchers with innovative and original research ideas.

Since the fungus is widely used for the industrial production of protein mixtures, the new insight has potential implications for industry.

Biologists from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ collect the first reported evidence that communication and cultural behaviour are closely intertwined in chimpanzees.

Faculty Professor and head of the Biology department Rens Voesenek has been appointed Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ has appointed biologist Rashmi Sasidharan as Professor of Plant Stress Resilience. Together with her research group, Sasidharan aims to pinpoint the mechanisms that help plants cope with stressful environments. This knowledge will pave the way toward more climate-resilient crops.

BioCliVE , an experiment in the Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Botanical Gardens by the Ecology and Biodiversity group of the department of Biology, replicates natural grasslands to study the effect of climate change on this kind of ecosystem.

Insights from a new study by Debottam Bhattacharjee, Jorg Massen and colleagues have consequences for the understanding of the evolution of cooperative behaviours.

Launch of the 3RCU campaign to stop the use of fetal calf serum.

Module allows studying the response of agricultural and natural ecosystems to future environmental conditions, such as lower amounts of rainfall.

Tuncay Baubec and his research group want to figure out how genes are turned ‘on’ and ‘off’ at the right time during development.

For the first time, contagious yawning has been demonstrated in solitary animals. Researchers now demonstrated the phenomenon in orangutans.

Her Majesty Queen Máxima visited our university. The work visit dealt with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on education and the welfare of students and lecturers.

Fertilization is a major threat to the stability of grasslands at the local and larger spatial scale, is the conclusion of an international research group.

The new Phytotron at the Hugo R. Kruyt building has now been taken into use. Researchers Dr. M.A. (Angelica) Sanclemente and S.W.M. (Sanne) Poppeliers MSc and project manager Leon Knijn tell you the story of this special building project in the video above.

In two publications, Utrecht biologists and international colleagues describe processes used by plants to adapt to warmth.

Edwin Pos is one of the three nominees for the election of the greatest scientific talent of the Netherlands and Flanders by the magazine New Scientist.

Within just a few generations, bacteria on plants can adapt from harmful to beneficial. This discovery could pave the way for developing special bacterial crop fertilizers.

Yawning appears to be a measure of brain size. Animals with larger brains yawn longer than those with smaller brains, according to research by biologist Jorg Massen.