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To help wherever possible, the Faculty of Science makes materials, scientists and laboratories available for UMC Utrecht during the Corona pandemic.

In the early 1980s, Smeekens was able to clone Coronavirus RNA and to sequence the very first coronavirus gene, the E1 glycoprotein.

They have been awarded the prestigious grant for two years of research, Andrés Romanowski in Environmental Biology and Huaiyang Yuan in Theoretical Physics.

De ontwikkeling van ‘klimaatbestendige’ planten die overstromingen kunnen overleven, komt een stap dichterbij. Bioloog Rashmi Sasidharan ontvangt 700.000 euro voor onderzoek naar de overlevingsstrategieën van planten tijdens overstromingen.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ biologist Rashmi Sasidharan receives a 700.000 Euro grant, allowing her to further extend her research on how plants cope with flooding.

Persoonlijkheid bepaalt voor een groot deel of iemand meegaapt met anderen. Dat concluderen onderzoekers nadat ze analyseerden hoe een grote groep proefpersonen reageerde op video’s van gapende mensen.

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.

Universiteit Utrecht-onderzoeker Kathryn Barry krijgt de prijs die getalenteerde onderzoekers met vernieuwende en originele onderzoeksideeën erkent.

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

Omdat de schimmel op grote schaal wordt gebruikt voor de productie van eiwitmengsels, heeft het nieuwe inzicht mogelijk gevolgen voor de industrie.

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

Biologen van de Universiteit Utrecht tonen aan dat cultureel gedrag ook bij dieren een samenspel tussen individuen kan zijn.

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

Faculteitshoogleraar en hoofd van het departement Biologie Voesenek is benoemd tot Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw.

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.

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.