Research News

Researchers of the University of Greifswald have discovered four new species of small freshwater snails in New Zealand. Dr. Gerlien Verhaegen and Dr. Martin Haase from Greifswald’s Zoological Institute and Museum, have named three of the new species after public figures. The newly discovered species…

Following agreement with the Academic Senate, the University of Greifswald’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities has decided to award the title of Honorary Doctor (Dr. phil. h.c.) to the Finnish linguist Prof. Kaisa Häkkinen from the University of Turku, Finland. The bestowal of the title shall take…

For the seventh time now, two students of the University of Greifswald have recently published the anthology Neue Nordische Novellen (New Nordic Novellas). The latest anthology Zeitstücke was published by the Heiner Labonde Verlag. It comprises 53 short stories and poems which engage with various…

Fenja Neumann, who is studying Landscape Ecology in Greifswald, has won 2020’s first prize in the Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue’s category ‘project ideas’. The prize is awarded by the Council for Baltic Sea States. The prize ceremony took place in Lithuania’s National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Vilnius…

Scientists from the University of Greifswald and University Medicine Greifswald have collaborated with the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and various institutions from across Germany to analyse an outbreak of particularly multidrug resistant bacteria belonging to the species Klebsiella pneumoniae. The…

As contributing editor and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception Online, Dr. Nicole Rupschus and Prof. Dr. Heinrich Assel, both theologians from Greifswald, have been awarded the American Library Association’s ‘Outstanding Academic Titles 2020’. The encyclopaedia is one of…

The European Union is funding a project on artificial intelligence (AI) to enable researchers and doctors from Germany and Poland to continue their collaboration in spite of the contact restrictions as a result of the coronavirus. University Medicine Greifswald and the Pomeranian Medical University…

A research group at University Medicine Greifswald (UMG) has uncovered a novel drug escape mechanism that utilises splicing factors in cancer cells. The collaborating research groups around Professor Florian Heidel at UMG and Professor Matthias Mann at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in…

Multi-drug resistant microbes have been on the rise for years. They were responsible for more than 33,000 deaths in Europe in 2018 alone. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has granted funds to a junior research group at the University of Greifswald that comprises more than two…

Plastics are wonderful materials. They are extremely versatile and of almost eternal durability. But that also causes a problem. After around 100 years of plastic production, plastic particles are almost everywhere: in ground water, the oceans, the air and the food chain. Across the globe,…