Fungi play an important role in the forest ecosystem, for instance as wood-decaying agents. Biotechnology specialist Daniel Kracher is investigating how exactly these processes work. In his host city of Manchester, the Schrödinger Fellow enjoyed the extremely open research culture and reciprocated by sharing samples of traditional Austrian cuisine. Continue reading “Sachertorte in Manchester”
In the context of her Erwin-Schrödinger project at the Technical University of Denmark, Elisabeth Varga investigates compounds produced by microalgae that are potentially toxic to fish. In Denmark, the natural scientist has broken new ground not only professionally, as she reports in her contribution for scilog. Continue reading “Hygge, Hamlet and HABs”
In spite of ever more effective therapies, HIV keeps managing to survive in the body. A comprehensive project conducted by the Austrian Science Fund FWF has clarified the molecular processes which contribute to this effect. In the process, approaches were discovered for possible therapies to combat the hidden reservoir formed by the virus. Continue reading “New insights into latent HIV infections”
Gudrun Böhmdorfer has garnered a postdoc fellowship at the laboratory of the renowned biologist Andrzej Wierzbicki at the University of Michigan, where she discovers new research methods and professional crisis management for when tornadoes strike. Continue reading “Hi, how are you? Hello from Ann Arbor”