Welcome
to the Department of Biology

Das FB-Seminar/ Departmental seminar
Summer semester 2024

The Biology Department Seminar Series takes place weekly on Thursdays and showcases exciting new research in biosciences and related fields, such as chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, and psychology.

Find out here which exciting lectures are on the schedule and how you can participate.

Best Paper Award

Exciting science is at the heart of our Department!  To honor new, innovative, and visibly published discoveries, we are awarding the "Best Paper Award" once every semester. Our most recent awardees are:

Rebekka Lambrecht for “Non-canonical BIM-regulated energy metabolism determines drug-induced liver necrosis in Cell Death and Differentiation

Anna-Katharina Ückert for "Identification of the bacterial metabolite aerugine as potential trigger of human dopaminergic neurodegenerationin Environmental International

Nikan Toulany for Uncovering developmental time and tempo using deep learning in Nature Methods

Congratulations!

Orientation studies Go.MINt

Go.MINt is the new orientation course in mathematics, computer science, biology, chemistry and physics, which will be offered for the first time in the winter semester 2024/2025.

Orientate.explore.decide.

Find the right STEM degree program for you at the University of Konstanz!

Further information here.

Movie: The University of Konstanz in two minutes
Innenhof und Ausblick auf die Mainau

The University of Konstanz in two minutes

The university of Konstanz  introduces itself - click image to see the movie.

Tag der Lehre 2024

Members of the department Biology met on 12th April 2024 to discuss current trends and problems in our study programs.

Thanks to everyone who took part and contributed actively to ensure good teaching!

Current news

Plague of locusts in Kenya. Countless locusts in one place.

Following your nose into the swarm

Locusts adapt their sense of smell to better detect sparse food sources in crowded swarms of up to billion animals, as researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz discovered. They published their results in the journal Nature Communication.

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Tracking animals without markers

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour developed a computer vision framework for posture estimation and identity tracking which they can use in indoor environments as well as in the wild. They have thus taken an important step towards markerless tracking of animals in the wild using computer vision and machine learning.

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Events

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