Thomas Rosenau to become Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)

Thomas Rosenau, Institute for Chemistry of Renewable Resources, has been appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the oldest international chemical society, for his work on the chemistry of lignocellulosic materials and the 1. prize of the International Green Chemistry Challenge 2018.

Dissertation Award

of the American Chemical Society (ACS) to Nele Zwirchmayr
This year's dissertation award of the American Chemical Society, CELL division, was presented to Nele Zwirchmayr, Institute of Chemistry of Renewable Resources, for her work on formation mechanisms of chromophores in cellulose. The high-ranking award honors outstanding doctoral theses in the field of lignocellulose chemistry .

Field Phenotyping and Remote Sensing

Third conference of the Austrian Plant Phenotyping Network (APPN) at BOKU
The third conference of the Austrian Plant Phenotyping Network (APPN) will take place the 13th of June at BOKU.

Phosphor Signaling by Roots

May 23 at UFT: guest lectura by Dr. Jörg Ziegler (Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle)

EUR-Organic: Apply now!

EUR-Organic application deadline: June 1 for EU-students for WS 2019. Get your international career started & apply now!

Immunoactive N-glycans found in the dog heartworm

The parasitic nematode Dirofilaria immitis primarily infects dogs, but also humans with its geographic range increasing due to climate change. Recently Katharina Paschinger and Iain Wilson published in Nature Communications that significant glycomic features of this nematode are immunoactive.

Public lecture: Market signals, urban amenities and the environment

27th May 2019, 4 pm, SCHW-SR 09 (Schwackhöfer Haus)
Fulbright Prof. Allen Klaiber from The Ohio State University explains how he uses individual choices to elicit preference of inhabitants for the city, environment and land use.

Drought Resistance Phenotyping in Grapevine

Seminar with Prof. Gregory A. Gambetta (ISVV Bordeaux) at the BOKU Institute for Viticulture and Pomology.

Prof. Erik Reimhult at TEDx Klagenfurt

Tiny materials with huge potential
Nanomaterials are advancing our technological capabilities in ways that border on what might be perceived as science fiction. Their role in biology, interactions and use in medicine and biotechnology are studied at BOKU. Watch this TEDx video of Univ. Prof. Erik Reimhult explaining some of the ideas guiding research on nanomaterials at the Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials.
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