A research team led by UFZ hydrogeologist Prof Holger Weiss has started up a pilot plant at the UFZ site in Leipzig as part of the KONATES research project. It is intended to serve as a heat exchanger while also removing pollutants from the groundwater.»
In their Leipzig Declaration, the research institutions in the Leipzig region, including the UFZ, take a firm stand against anti-democratic sentiment and right-wing extremism and for academic freedom, human rights and democracy.»
A project in the Leipzig area shows how floodplain landscapes in urban areas can be restored and transformed back into living ecosystems that make an important contribution to natural climate protection. A team from the UFZ provided scientific support for the project. »
Germany aims to be climate neutral by 2045. In order to achieve this goal, greenhouse gas emissions must be greatly reduced and effective measures to remove CO2 from the atmosphere established. Researchers led by the UFZ and GEOMAR have now developed an evaluation matrix. »
At an online event on 23 May, SRU members Prof Josef Settele and Prof Wolfgang Köck will present the statement "Renaturation: Protecting biodiversity, managing land sustainably". This will be discussed with stakeholders from politics and practice.»
The MiBiTox projects gathers data about the unknown role of the human microbiome in interaction with synthetic chemicals from the environment. Do the chemicals influence the microbiome? Or the other way around? And if yes, is the outcome favorable for our body and us humans, toxification or detoxification? My role is to identify possible transformation products via targeted and untargeted analysis from a simplified human gut microbiome(SIHUMIx)to zebrafish to mice and real human gut samples.
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