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The Department of Biology at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg comprises 21 full professorships, around 300 employees and around 1.000 students. Along with five other departments, Biology is part of the Faculty of Sciences at the FAU.

Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations (Gates Ag One) is providing approximately 25.8 million euros (28 million US dollars) in funding for an international research project led by FAU: The non-profit organization will support the cassava source-sink (CASS) project in the next five years to improve the productivity of one of the most important food crops in sub-Saharan Africa. The project unites researchers from 11 institutions around the world to optimize cassava physiology to significantly increase the yield of high-quality cassava storage roots under low-input farming conditions in smallholder farmer fields.

The Department of Biology at the FAU calls for open topic applications to establish a junior research group. We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher who is interested in establishing his/her independent junior research group within our department. The call is open for any scientific topic matching and expanding the research foci of the Department of Biology. Candidates with submitted Emmy Noether or ERC grant applications are highly encouraged to apply.

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Cells are the basis of life and new cells arise by dividing one cell into two cells. In animals, cell division is typically mediated by a ring-like structure consisting of long threads of actin fibers. This actin ring shrinks in size and generates the two new cells. In case actin ring constriction fails, cell division is abolished and numerous diseases can arise. The research group of Prof. Dr. Esther Zanin discovered a novel type of ring that assembles and constricts in case actin fibers are missing. The molecular composition of the novel contractile ring and how it constricts was recently published by the research group in Cell Reports

Antibodies are crucial, not only for treating tumors and infections. Sometimes, however, the immune reaction they trigger can be too strong and end up causing more damage, for example in the case of people infected with Covid-19. Problems such as these can often be avoided by finetuning antibodies, as Prof. Dr. Falk Nimmerjahn from FAU and two of his colleagues in the Netherlands and in the UK have now reported in the journal Nature Immunology.

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The Department of Biology at the FAU calls for open topic applications to establish a junior research group. We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher who is interested in establishing his/her independent junior research group within our department. The call is open for any scientific topic matching and expanding the research foci of the Department of Biology. Candidates with submitted Emmy Noether or ERC grant applications are highly encouraged to apply.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations (Gates Ag One) is providing approximately 25.8 million euros (28 million US dollars) in funding for an international research project led by FAU: The non-profit organization will support the cassava source-sink (CASS) project in the next five years to improve the productivity of one of the most important food crops in sub-Saharan Africa. The project unites researchers from 11 institutions around the world to optimize cassava physiology to significantly increase the yield of high-quality cassava storage roots under low-input farming conditions in smallholder farmer fields.

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In a collaborative project the research groups of Prof. Henry Dube (Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy) and Prof. Esther Zanin (Department of Biology) established a new class of light responsive molecules, based on (oxo-)rhodanine, and demonstrated that their activity can be controlled with light in cancer cells.

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