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LIFE Profillinie @lifeprofile.bsky.social · 1d

Time for interdisciplinary #LIFEScience CONNECTions! Meet researchers and network with local companies & intitatives at the 4th LIFE Symposium!
🗓️Nov 26, 2025
🔗 kurzlinks.de/LIFESymposium
@uni-jena.de

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Balance of the Microverse @microverse.bsky.social · 27d

On #WorldSepsisDay, Michael Bauer from Jena University Hospital shares how microbiome research at our #ClusterOfExcellence could change the way we understand and treat #sepsis. Watch the latest "3 Questions for..." clip! #MicrobiomeResearch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=auG7...
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THREE QUESIONS FOR ... Prof. Michael Bauer

YouTube video by Universität Jena

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LIFE Profillinie @lifeprofile.bsky.social · Jul 31

🚀 LIFE Funding @uni-jena.de 2025: Apply now!

The LIFE profile at Uni Jena supports you with funding for new research projects, early career support, and events.

✨ Deadline for LIFE Connect: September 30, 2025

The funding program of the LIFE profile

Current funds & awards within LIFE

www.uni-jena.de

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Balance of the Microverse @microverse.bsky.social · Aug 15

🔬 In our new “3 Questions for…” episode, junior group leader @mlakemeyer.bsky.social reveals how chemical biology tools help decode microbial interactions & gut microbiota’s role in health & disease – and how this could inspire new therapies. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS54...
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THREE QUESTIONS FOR ... Markus Lakemeyer

YouTube video by Universität Jena

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LIFE Profillinie @lifeprofile.bsky.social · Aug 11

Come see what happens when disciplines meet:
🎥 Performance, film & talks
📍 Aug 15–16, TRAFO Jena

Artists + Scientists → Shared space, shared methods, shared questions.

LIFE Profillinie @lifeprofile.bsky.social · Aug 5

Artists + Scientists → Shared space, shared methods, shared questions.
In the residency künstlerische Tatsachen, they collect, dissect, and reimagine how knowledge is created.

Come see what happens when disciplines meet:
🎥 Performance, film & talks
📍 Aug 15–16, TRAFO Jena

#Art&Science#UniJena

LIFE Profillinie @lifeprofile.bsky.social · Aug 1

✨ Highlight:
LIFE-funded researchers will present their projects at the
4th LIFE Symposium – TIME TO CONNECT

📅 When? November 26, 2025 |
📍 Where? ZAF @uni-jena.de

More info & registration:
www.uni-jena.de/211607/life-...

#Research #UniJena #Networking #Innovation #LifeSciences

4. LIFE-Symposium - TIME TO CONNECT

Time for interdisciplinary LIFE Science CONNECTions! Academia meets industry! Networking with local researchers, companies and institutions. SAVE THE DATE 26.11.2025

www.uni-jena.de

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LIFE Profillinie @lifeprofile.bsky.social · Jul 31

🚀 LIFE Funding @uni-jena.de 2025: Apply now!

The LIFE profile at Uni Jena supports you with funding for new research projects, early career support, and events.

✨ Deadline for LIFE Connect: September 30, 2025

The funding program of the LIFE profile

Current funds & awards within LIFE

www.uni-jena.de

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LIFE Profillinie @lifeprofile.bsky.social · Jun 10

Profile area LIFE is thrilled to support this exciting collaboration! Looking forward to seeing the discoveries that will emerge from your work on rRNA activity in neurodegeneration. 🚀

Kirstein Lab @kirsteinlab.bsky.social · Jun 8

Excited to expand the cooperation with Holger Bierhoff beyond the local running trails of Jena with the support of a Life Connect grant of @uni-jena.de to work on the role of rRNA activity in neurodegeneration.

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Universität Jena @uni-jena.de · May 23

Two #ClustersOfExcellence for #UniJena – what a fantastic success! We are happy and proud that both our existing Cluster @microverse.bsky.social and our new Cluster #Imaginamics will receive funding through the #ExStra @dfg.de @wissenschaftsrat.de.

➡️ www.uni-jena.de/en/320078/je...

Members of the University of Jena and guests stand in the courtyard of the Botanical Garden and wait for the announcement of the future Clusters of Excellence to be funded, looking at a laptop. Media representatives film the event.

Prof. Dr Kirsten Küsel, spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse", Prof. Dr Andreas Marx, President of the University of Jena and Prof. Dr Johannes Grave, spokesperson of the new Cluster of Excellence "Imaginamics", toast with champagne glasses in the courtyard of the Botanical Garden (from left to right).

Prof. Dr Kirsten Küsel (right), spokesperson for the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse", embraces her predecessor Prof. Dr Axel Brakhage.

Members of the University of Jena celebrate the success of the Cluster of Excellence initiative "Imaginamics".

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NFDI4Chem @nfdi4chem.de · May 16

A #Data #management #plan ( #DMP ) is cornerstones for handling research data. They are needed for funding and are very useful.

But they are not popular. To remedy this, we have created a template for #chemistry that guides researchers easily through all parts of a DMP.

bit.ly/40X1Zv5

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NFDI4Microbiota @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social · May 16

📅 Save the Date: NFDI4Microbiota Annual Conference in Cologne, 29 Sep–2 Oct 2025!
Free, open to all hands-on workshops & scientific talks on microbial data integration. Network and shape the future of microbiome research. Details coming soon!
#NFDI4Microbiota

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Universität Jena @uni-jena.de · May 16

Together with international partners, researchers from our Cluster of Excellence @microverse.bsky.social have developed a new tool that considerably simplifies and accelerates the genetic analysis of viruses—an unprecedented achievement in #virus research. #UniJena

➡️ www.uni-jena.de/en/316536/vi...

Viral world organized

International research team develops speedbreaking analysis tool

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Universität Jena @uni-jena.de · May 1

The dance video ‘Plant Vaccination’ by PhD student Priya Reddy at #UniJena won the prize in the biology category of the international ‘Dance Your PhD’ competition. The choreography creatively shows how plants activate their immune system. Congratulations! 🥳

➡️ www.uni-jena.de/en/314061/au...

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JSMC @jsmc-info.bsky.social · May 8

Our 5th #AlumniMeeting on 📆 Friday, June 27, 2025 is getting closer! Our alumni will share their experiences and information about their current position.

All alumni and current PhDs and PostDocs cordially invited! Register here by 23rd May: kurzlinks.de/f8rj

And please spread the word! 📣

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · May 8

🚨 Episode 2 of #InsideBiodivesity with Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social explores biodiversity shifts, human impact & how better science can shape better conservation.
Don’t miss it! 🎙️ insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

Inside Biodiversity

What do we really know about biodiversity? Inside Biodiversity brings you in-depth conversations with leading researchers tackling the most pressing and controversial questions in biodiversity science...

insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

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Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms @mpm-hki.bsky.social · May 9

Check out Bernie's radio comment on a new @science.org study highlighting the importance of fungi in the intestinal microbiome!🦠🍄

Leibniz-HKI @leibniz-hki.de · May 8

Candida expert Bernhard Hube comments on German #DLF about a new @science.org study: Gut fungus #Fusarium foetens may protect the liver in a mouse model: lmy.de/CmFhO

🎧 lmy.de/sWCGI (German speaking radio feature)
📄 lmy.de/jxsgf (“Science” study)

Close-up of a petri dish with the white microbial fungus Fusarium oxysporum, a close relative of the intestinal fungus Fusarium foetens investigated in the study. Photo credit: Slavica Janevska, Leibniz-HKI

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Universität Jena @uni-jena.de · Apr 3

Some bacteria use a chemical radar to protect themselves from predators: how this happens, was discovered by #UniJena, @leibniz-hki.de and @unibayreuth.bsky.social with our Cluster of Excellence @microverse.bsky.social, as they reported in "Cell". 🦠

➡️ www.uni-jena.de/en/307648/pr...

Eine Petrischale mit Kulturen vor orangem Licht. Foto: Jens Meyer / Uni Jena

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Universität Jena @uni-jena.de · Apr 15

Our microbiologist Prof. Dr Kirsten Küsel has been elected as member of @leopoldina.org. 💐

The speaker of the Cluster of Excellence @microverse.bsky.social and @crc-aquadiva.bsky.social at #UniJena studies microbial communities in soil, water and deep underground.

➡️ www.uni-jena.de/en/310794/pr...

Prof. Dr. Kirsten Küsel. Foto: Jens Meyer / Uni Jena

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JSMC @jsmc-info.bsky.social · Feb 25

Are you nearing the completion of your Master's degree in a natural science subject, such as life sciences, medicine or optics/photonics, and interested in doing your PhD @uni-jena.de?
Join the Jena Alliance Talent Fair which will be held online on March 25

➡️https://www.uni-jena.de/en/talent-fair

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LIFE Profillinie @lifeprofile.bsky.social · Feb 14

JSMC @jsmc-info.bsky.social · Feb 12

We’re looking for alumni who’d love to give a talk or just join us at the JSMC/ILRS Alumni Meeting 2025 in Jena! A great chance to reconnect, share experiences, and network.

📅 When? 2025 – Details here: tinyurl.com/4wtykaut

Interested? Let us know! 🚀 #JSMC #ILRS #AlumniMeeting #Networking #Science

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JSMC @jsmc-info.bsky.social · Feb 12

We’re looking for alumni who’d love to give a talk or just join us at the JSMC/ILRS Alumni Meeting 2025 in Jena! A great chance to reconnect, share experiences, and network.

📅 When? 2025 – Details here: tinyurl.com/4wtykaut

Interested? Let us know! 🚀 #JSMC #ILRS #AlumniMeeting #Networking #Science

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LIFE Profillinie @lifeprofile.bsky.social · Feb 10

🚀 Attention #LifeSciences researchers at @uni-jena.de & @Uniklinik Jena!

💡 Ready to launch a new research collaboration? The LIFE-"Connect" fund is here to support you!

📅 Deadline: 31.03.2025
🔗 Apply now: kurzlinks.de/Connect-Fund

🔄 Spread the word! #Funding #Collaboration #ResearchBoost

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Universität Jena @uni-jena.de · Jan 31

Dr Pepe Eulzer from #UniJena has been awarded the prestigious VRVis Visual Computing Award 2025. In his work, he was able to visualise dangerous narrowing of arteries supplying the brain. This helps to better assess the risk of strokes. Congratulations! 🎉

➡️ www.uni-jena.de/en/297055/vi...

Award winner Dr Pepe Eulzer. Image: Anne Günther / Uni Jena

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LIFE Profillinie @lifeprofile.bsky.social · Jan 10

Calling early-career life science researchers! 🎉

The LIFE Talent Award @UniJena
is here! 🏆 Celebrate innovation, excellence, and impact with a prize of €5,000!

📅 Apply by January 31, 2025
kurzlinks.de/LIFETalent
Showcase your research at the LIFE Symposium & beyond!
#LIFE

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