Welcome
to the Department of Biology

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Studentinnen im Bibliotheks-Foyer

Welcome and a good start to the winter semester!

Let's get started with the introductory events...

...for students of the 5th semester in all study programs: 14.10.24

...for first-year students of the Bachelor program "Biological Sciences": 15.10.24

...for first-year students of the Master programs "Biological Sciences" and "Life Science": 15.10.24

...for first-year Bachelor and Master of Education students: 16.10.24

...to the enrolement of the Advanced Courses: 18.10.24

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:

Inga Petelski and Yannik Günzel for “Synergistic olfactory processing for social plasticity in desert locusts” in Nature Communications

Peter Seeber for “Mitochondrial genomes of Pleistocene megafauna retrieved from recent sediment layers of two Siberian lakes” in eLife

Odd Jacobson for “A new approach to geostatistical synthesis of historical records reveals capuchin spatial responses to climate and demographic change” in Ecology Letters

Ruben Herrmann for "Range of trait variation in prey determines evolutionary contribution to predator growth rate" in Journal of Evolutionary Biology

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
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The University of Konstanz in two minutes

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Current news

Five pigeons are sitting on a green pole, presumably a railing. One pigeon is landing.

Focus first, then flee

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "Collective Behaviour" at the University of Konstanz have discovered when pigeons sharply recognize a predator and at what moment they take flight.

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One person is wearing a beekeeper's helmet. Two people are sitting and waiting for him and the bees he carries.

Waggle dance mysteries

How do bees navigate when the directions in the waggle dances by other bees are fuzzy? Dive into the intriguing research on bee behaviour, which occurs on the campus at the University Konstanz, to find out this research question.

A molecular control hub maintains order

How are proteins in our cells modified while they are still being synthesized? An international team of researchers from the University of Konstanz, Caltech, and ETH Zurich has deciphered the molecular mechanism of this vital process.

The South American lungfish has an eel-like, brownish-coloured body and a snake-like, yellow-spotted head.

Decoding the world’s largest animal genome

Thirty times the size of the human genome: An international team of researchers led by Konstanz evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer and Würzburg biochemist Manfred Schartl has sequenced the largest genome of all animals, the lungfish genome. Their data help to explain how the fish-ancestors of today’s land vertebrates were able to conquer land.

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