Gesture exchanges in wild chimps resemble human conversational patterns! New paper (with data from 5 chimp communities!) in Current Biology led by Gal Badihi and Cat Hobaiter! Ping NCCR Evolving Language UZH Science ISLE

A new study from UZH Medical Virology scientists (University of Zurich) has found that self-targeting #AutoAntibodies may be responsible for viral susceptibility later in life 📉 Learn how the research may lead to new diagnostic tests at EurekAlert!: eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

📢REGISTRATION IS OPEN!! 🤗The 7th annual Open Innovations in Life Science Conference 2024 is happening as a live event with online streaming on October 17th, 2024. Check out the flyer for details and register now! We are excited to see you at the event! oils24.b2match.io

.Sonja Fernbach, Mair, Ben Hale UZH Medical Virology and colleagues dissect how rare anti-IFN-I autoantibodies develop and weaken defenses over time, making some individuals more susceptible to infections. hubs.la/Q02H58D10 #Autoimmunity #Immunodeficiency #InfectiousDisease

✍️New preprint from the UPSCALE team on "Push-Pull" as an agro-ecological approach to protect maize from the devastating fall armyworm. 🌽🐛 It works - but how? We summarize the evidence, tackle a controversy, and propose next steps: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Arbeitet Ihr im Raum Zürich zum Thema Bewegung in urbanen Räumen? Habt Ihr Lust mit Akteur*innen aus Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft spannende Projektideen zu entwickeln? Dann meldet Euch an zu unserem #Ideenlabor am 1.+24. Oktober 2024! Alle Infos: citizenscience.uzh.ch/de/aktuelles/e…

Infektionskrankheiten wie Pest, Lepra und Syphilis begleiten den Menschen seit langem. Die Paläogenetikerin Verena Schünemann erforscht die Evolution von Krankheitskeimen und die Frage, weshalb sie sich so lange halten konnten: news.uzh.ch/de/articles/ne…

IInfectious diseases like the plague, leprosy and syphilis have shaped humanity over a long period of time – are still doing so today. Paleogeneticist Verena Schünemann explores the evolution of pathogens and why they have been able to survive for so long: news.uzh.ch/en/articles/ne…

#Register now for the MAP Young Faculty Meeting 2024 👉 map.scnat.ch/en/id/dE3ak?em… A great opportunity to network with other fellow researchers in the fields of #mathematics, #astronomy or #physics! 🗣️ Don't miss the insights from our guest speakers: Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (Materials Science & Engineering @EPFL),

Are you preparing an application for the ERC AdG2024 call for proposals️? 📌 Tune in to our dedicated webinar on Monday 19 August @ 11.00 CEST Find here the link to join, the list of questions answered during the last session, plus its recording 👉 bit.ly/46rGyD9

Kinked versus straight: which molecule breaks symmetry better? The answer is not so straight... New paper by Bogdan Dereka Bogdan Dereka UZH Chemistry published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

✍️How do beech seedlings withstand drought? How different are these capacities across genotypes and provenances? And how can we know? One small step towards answering the big question: what will become of beech forests? 🌳🍂 Read about it: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Our work "Rethinking Molecular Design: Integrating Latent Variable and Auto-Regressive Models for Enhanced Goal Directed Generation" got accepted at the ICML 2024 Workshop AccMLBio! Great work by Arthur-Louis Heath and Amina Mollaysa 👏🎉! 🗞️openreview.net/pdf?id=b1hoOXg…

📢 IPCC: Call for Authors and Review Editors based in Switzerland ➡️#IPCC Special Report on #ClimateChange and #Cities ➡️#IPCC Methodology Report on Inventories for Short-lived #Climate Forcers 📝How to be nominated and further information: proclim.scnat.ch/en/id/RLLwA FOEN

27.08.2024, 6:30 pm Mentoring Community Meeting Let's meet in the main hall of Zurich Main Station below the very big hanging angel for a picnic in the Platzspitz Park🌞(⛈️ or at Akt Niederdorf). t.uzh.ch/1IZ

07. & 08.11.2024 9:30am Führen Sie Ihre Klasse aus ins Filmpodium! Einladung für Lehrpersonen und ihre Schulklassen 📽️ «Zu viel Konsum? Zu viele Menschen? Die Erde am Limit» 📽️ «KI als Freundin: Funktioniert eine Chatbot-Beziehung?» 📽️ uzhalumni.ch/events/154278

✍️Assisted gene flow (AGF) is a management option to help forests adapt. But how to manage AGF? Closely related species are often difficult to distinguish, as are their hybrids. We use satellites🛰️to scale up a current method that uses microsatellites🧬:) doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

We are hiring multiple PhD students and Postdocs: lnkd.in/eSeJQDdg Are you ready to take your research career to the next level? We are seeking highly motivated PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to join our lab and make a significant impact on real-world

In Zeiten der Künstlichen Intelligenz dürften Austausch und Reflexion in der Lehre im Vergleich zur Wissensvermittlung mehr Gewicht einnehmen. Dies postuliert ein Positionspapier der Digital Society Initiative der UZH: news.uzh.ch/de/articles/ne…

In the age of artificial intelligence, the emphasis in teaching is likely to shift from knowledge transfer towards interaction and reflection. This is one of the recommendations from a position paper by the UZH’s Digital Society Initiative: news.uzh.ch/en/articles/ne…