About 240 first-year students from the Department of Biology collected trash along the Outer Alster—6,370 items. This resulted in a pilot study that combines teaching, research, and environmental engagement.

On April 23, 2026, the nationwide Girls’Day and Boys’Day events took place once again. These events offer students the opportunity to explore careers and fields of study in which their gender has historically been underrepresented. At the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Natural Sciences at the University of...

We are pleased to invite master’s and doctoral students in the natural sciences to join our three-day intensive Summer School in Life Sciences organized within the MOMOBIO project, taking place 5–7 October, 2026 in Hamburg, Germany.

In March 2026 we held the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology, which took place at the Institute for Animal Cell and Systems Biology (IZS). 

Theme:
Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species

The meeting was organized by the Evolutionary Immunogenomics Research Group and included two invited talks as...

Dr. Gali Estopare Araguirang from the Research Unit Plant Immune Biology  led by Prof. Marco Trujillo received the Reinhold von Sengbusch Prize for Posters at the "Molecular Biology of Plants Conference" held from March 16-19, 2026 at Hennef Sports School, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

This annual conference is under the...

The consequences of a sedentary lifestyle are difficult to study in human trials. That is why an international research team, including the University of Hamburg, has now investigated them in king penguins. The result: While an abundant food supply in protected living conditions promotes rapid growth, it ultimately leads to...