News from the Göttingen Campus

How well does the adapted Covid-19 vaccine protect?

BA.5-adapted vaccine improves antibody response, but new omicron subvariants still show strong immune escape
Should I get another booster? And if so, which vaccine should be used? These questions are asked by many citizens who have received the basic immunization consisting of usually three individual vaccine doses. A team of researchers from the German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen and Hannover Medical School studied antibody-mediated neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variants following a fourth vaccination with…

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Catching the Sun’s Dynamic Coronal Web

In the Sun's middle corona, a team of researchers discovers web-like dynamic plasma structures – and an important clue as to what mechanism drives the solar wind.
Using observational data from the U.S. weather satellites GOES, a team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany has taken an important step toward unlocking one of the Sun’s most persevering secrets: How does our star launch the particles constituting the solar wind into space? The data provide a unique view of a key region in the solar corona to which researchers have had little access so far.…

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Science Award Lower Saxony 2022 for Medical Ethicist at the University Medical Center Göttingen

Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiesemann, Director of the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen, receives the Science Award Lower Saxony 2022.

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A world map of plant diversity

International research team led by Göttingen University use advanced machine learning to model biodiversity

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Award for interdisciplinary research

Viola Priesemann receives Arthur Burkhardt Prize

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Asteroid Ryugu: A Traveler from the Edge of the Solar System

Iron isotopes in samples from asteroid Ryugu suggest its origin to lie beyond the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn.

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New animal husbandry building opened at DPZ

PriCaB combines research and husbandry under one roof

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Wind music causes less transmission than singing

Playing wind instruments spreads more viruses than breathing, but less than speaking or singing
A relatively large number of viruses can emerge from the clarinet. It releases considerably more aerosols, which can contain pathogens such as Sars-CoV-2, compared to other instruments such as the flute. However, the risk of transmission from an infected person on a wind instrument is generally much lower than for people who sing or speak, provided that one spends the same amount of time in their vicinity. This is the conclusion drawn by a…

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Predicting Solar Storms Earlier than Before

With the help of an ERC Proof of Concept Grant, Prof. Dr. Maarit Korpi-Lagg is breaking new ground in predicting space weather.
Prof. Dr. Maarit Korpi-Lagg of Aalto University in Espoo (Finland) and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Göttingen (Germany) has received a Proof of Concept Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). In the next year and a half, Prof. Dr. Korpi-Lagg intends to develop an innovative method to predict solar storms. The novel approach to space weather forecasts could increase the possible warning times by a few days,…

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Award for German-French research collaboration

Professor Lutz Ackermann receives SCF French-German Georg Wittig-Victor Grignard Award 2022
The chemist Professor Lutz Ackermann from the University of Göttingen receives the SCF French-German Georg Wittig-Victor Grignard Prize 2022. The Société Chimique de France (SCF) awards this prize to outstanding chemists who have enriched research in both countries through their work. Ackermann receives the prize for his research in the field of catalytic activation of reaction-carrying C-H bonds by transition metal catalysis. The prize also…

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