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Interesting research topics and methods of companies will be the focus of the half-day symposium “Research in the chemical industry (FoChIn)” at the University of Münster. This event will take place in lecture hall C2, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 6 on the 17th of May (1-7 pm).

“Tap” the knowledge of 13 researchers from Münster! From 14 to 16 May 2018, they will be talking about their work – in bars and restaurants. Following the short lectures, you will have a chance to chat with them – for example, about opportunities that have arisen because of their work and how they actually arrive at their results.

In his dissertation written at the University of Münster, the author, Dr. Jan Markus Weber, dealt with the question of the extent to which competitors should have access to the algorithms and data sets held by the dominant force in the market, Google.

Through its Emmy Noether Programme, the DFG is funding medical chemist Dr. Anna Junker with 1.3 million euros. As a postdoc, she had succeeded in obtaining third-party funding in the Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence. Now she is putting together her junior research group at the European Institute for Molecular Imaging.

The aim of research data management is to increase the transparency of science, enable reliable quality control and guarantee the assurance of results. "Nowadays, it’s possible to process large quantities of data", says Dr. Dominik Rudolph, Managing Director of the ZIV. "What is needed for this, though, is not only technical know-how, but also library competence and legal knowledge."

Researchers at the Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence have developed a new method enabling them to locate important modifications to messenger RNA. This is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between biochemists and molecular biologists. It has been published in “Angewandte Chemie”.

Sport scientists and psychologists at the University of Münster show in a study published in the "Scientific Reports" journal that the more accurately children assess their motor competences, the more positive is the effect on their physical activity.

Adults have fewer neuronal connections than infants because during development, neurons degenerate the non-specific connections. Biologist Dr. Svende Hermann investigates a similar mechanism in the fruit fly. In a guest contribution, she explains her research in a way that everyone can understand.

"We live in exciting times", says Prof. Guido Hertel, Executive Director of the Institute of Psychology at Münster University. Digitalisation is changing not only the jobs market, but also our private lives. Guido Hertel calls for openness and user-friendliness in dealing with the new technologies.

The first step has been taken – three Cluster of Excellence proposals have been officially submitted by their respective representatives. Now comes the assessment, and on 27 September, the final decision. WWU press officer Dr. Kathrin Kottke spoke with the representatives of the three planned clusters about the joys and ordeals of the writing process

Two “Advanced Grants” from the European Research Council (ERC) go to researchers at the University of Münster and the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Molecular Biomedicine in Münster. Biochemist Ralf Adams, Professor at the Medical Faculty of the University and at MPI, and Frank Glorius, Professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University, each receive one of the grants.

The March for Science in Münster will get going on Saturday, 14 April, 2018 – under the motto “Science is a driving force”. The Rectorate calls on all those interested to come and join in the event. In advance of the march, the University of Münster’s Press Office asked some of the academics at the University what, in their opinion, would be missing in our society without science. Their answers, as well as further information on the March for Science, can be found here.

The Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” introduces the wealth of its research in a new format: “Religion and Politics. The Magazine” presents in richly illustrated reports, interviews, portraits, and essays the research and the researchers connected over the past few years to the interdisciplinary network of the University of Münster.

An experimental approach to visualize structures of organic molecules with exceptional resolution is reported by physicists and chemists from the University of Münster in a recently published study in the scientific journal “Nature Nanotechnology”.