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The ProLOEWE-NEWS December 2021 is here, with many current topics from the LOEWE research projects
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Prof. Dr. Anke Becker elected new deputy ProLOEWE spokeswoman

Making Hesse forests fit for hot summers, new LOEWE clusters from 2022 onwards and the ProLOEWE Science Rally – these and more topics in the latest issue of ProLOEWE NEWS
The exhibition ship operated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research is dropping anchor in about 30 cities in Germany during 2021.
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Cast off! The “MS Wissenschaft” starts its tour on a new route on 5 June 2021 – and the TBG LOEWE cluster is on board with an exhibit devoted to weaving
Using the mathematical technique of uniformisation, complicated geometrical shapes can be presented as highly symmetrical geometrical patterns.
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New Transregio 326 “Geometry and Arithmetic of Uniformised Structures” special research field connects with the work of the USAG LOEWE cluster
Feared, combatted, renamed – the downy mildew is a sickness caused by fungi and it affects cultivated plants. These types of fungi are now bracketed together in the peronsporales order. When they were discovered, they were still described as plasmopara.
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A significant challenge: millions of unknown microspecies of fungi are to be given names – scientists at the TBG LOEWE Centre involved in the strategy
Before TBG LOEWE existed: only a few research scientists at Senckenberg were working on the DNA of organisms.
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A large number of sequenced genetic codes, extensive market analyses and three new professorships – significant interim results after three years of LOEWE funding
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“The impact of sex and gender on biomedical research – examples and methods” – a guest lecture by Prof. Dr med. Sabine Oertelt-Prigione as part of the LOEWE FCI Lectures
Results from the 2021 HIGH-TECH Forum stored on DNA developed by MOSLA LOEWE at the University of Marburg
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Final report from the 2021 HIGH-TECH FORUM handed over as data stored on DNA – in conjunction with MOSLA LOEWE
Macrocycles (pink rods) represent the first chemical compounds that make a clear distinction between FKBP51, a drug target for depression, obesity and chronic pain, and the off-targets known as FKBP12 and FKBP12.6.
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LOEWE TRABITA Centre identifies bonding molecules that could enable therapeutic approaches to treat depression, obesity and chronic pain
Fragment of a piece of slate with Hebrew writing, Cologne, 14th century
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1700 years of Jewish life in Germany – Professor Elisabeth Hollender, an expert in Judaism and the spokesperson for the Minority Studies LOEWE cluster, talks about the contribution made by he
Two great-banded furrow bees – the composition of their venom is being examined together with other species as part of a DFG (German Research Foundation) project studying the evolution of venom in social and solitary bees
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The European Venom Network has been founded to conduct research into venom– LOEWE scientist Dr Björn von Reumont is one of the German representatives
Research scientists have decoded the total DNA of the pygmy hippopotamus (choeropsis liberiensis) for the first time.
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The common ancestor of hippopotamuses and whales lived on land, contrary to expectations – LOEWE TBG Prof. Michael Hiller involved in the genome analysis work
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LOEWE research in Giessen – research on bird flu and influenza viruses in high-security laboratories; the newly founded Fraunhofer Institute IME receives EUR 3.2 million for this purpose
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Redesigning main roads to promote mental health – a project conducted by LOEWE IDG

LOEWE BAMP! at the Venice Biennale of Architecture – this and more in the first issue of ProLOEWE NEWS 2021
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Start to the Senckenberg series of lectures: “Nature’s blueprint – how genomics is revolutionising our view of biological diversity – on 17 March from 7:15 p.m. onwards
People on the traffic-calmed Mainkai in Frankfurt
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How did people use the traffic-calmed Frankfurt Mainkai during COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in May, 2020? A study of the LOEWE cluster IDG provides information.
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Fourth spring symposium of the DRUID LOEWE Centre in digital form to focus on Covid-19 research on 22 February 2021
Giersch Summer School and International Conference from 22 February until 4 March 2021
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Theoretical and experimental quantitative cell biology – the DynaMem and CMMS LOEWE clusters invite people to the Giersch Summer School and International Conference on 22 February – 4 March 2
The CRACK IT project being led by the Goethe University is investigating how scientists could avoid using toxicological experiments on tissue from animals like rats
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Scientists including representatives from the TBG LOEWE Centre are successful in the “CRACK IT 36: Animal-free in vitro” competition
The theatre in Düsseldorf, which was designed by Bernhard Pfau and opened in 1970
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“Theatre buildings, culture for everybody” online panel discussions with the spokesperson of the ‘Architectures of Order’ LOEWE cluster, Carsten Ruhl, and guests
A friction stir welding unit at the specialist field of Separating and Joining Production Processes at the University of Kassel
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ALLEGRO LOEWE cluster obtains approval as an IGF project to improve friction stir welding processes
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Extracting juice from pomace – a research scientist from LOEWE AROMAplus talks about a new way of making soft drinks on ‘rheinmain tv’
Professor Ivan Đikič from the Institute of Biochemistry II at the Goethe University is the Coordinator of the forward-looking PROXIDRUGS cluster
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The PROXIDRUGS research cluster receives up to EUR 15 million in support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research – LOEWE scientists are involved
Coronaviruses (blue) leaving a kidney cell – photo taken by a helium ion microscope
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Helium ion microscope makes it possible to observe interaction between coronaviruses and host cells – LOEWE Professor Friedemann Weber involved in the study
The Mediterranean fruit fly, ceratitis capitata, and its white and brown cocoons
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An international research team centred around LOEWE scientist, Professor Marc F. Schetelig, identifies a colour gene to combat Mediterranean fruit flies in the long term
Prof. Dr Christoph G. Grevelding is a parasitology expert at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and the Deputy Spokesperson for the DRUID LOEWE Centre
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Prof. Dr Christoph G. Grevelding, the Deputy Spokesperson for the DRUID LOEWE Centre and an expert from the JLU in Giessen, on the World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day on 30 January 2021

"Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease” – an online guest lecture by Prof. Eran Elinav at LOEWE-FCI at 4 p.m. on 28 January
Cuban land snail, polymita picta
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The voting process launched for the “2021 Mollusc of the Year” competition – the “winning creature” will be decoded at the LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics
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LOEWE-FLAME is launching its international series of seminars entitled “FLAME-inars” on 14 January 2021; they will then be held every two weeks
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LOEWE TMP Centre transformed into an independent Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP

Four new LOEWE projects receive Hesse research support from January 2021 onwards – the topics: treating lung cancer, communication paths for bacteria, nano-structures and AI