A global study with contributions by the Department of Biology at the University of Hamburg shows that in human-disturbed regions, many native plant species are absent from their natural habitats. These missing species can be considered as the “dark diversity” of a region. The results of the study have now been published in...

From 11 to 13 June 2025 the annual meeting "exRNA research and innovation to improve human and plant health" will take place in Hamburg at the CSSB Centre for Structural Systems Biology c/o Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY.

Two years after a successful training and research cruise from Spain to Namibia with the research vessel METEOR seven students and five scientists from the Institute of Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries Sciences (IMF) and the Institute of Geology at the University of Hamburg once again had the opportunity to take part in such...