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New BOKUdoku: "Plastic Age - Forever?"

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For many years, researchers at the BOKU Institute of Environmental Biotechnology have been working on the biodegradability of synthetic materials. In cooperation with the Environment Agency Austria, a BOKUdoku about the increasingly massive problem of plastic pollution and possible solutions has now been released.

BOKU-kino: Film Screening with Discussion

5th of May

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EPICUR: Opportunities for student mobility

EPICUR, an alliance of 8 European universities, presents its mobility offers to BOKU students during the ZOOM IN.ternational days. On Wednesday, May 5 between 3:15 pm to 4 pm EPICUR will give an insight into the alliance and present (virtual) internships in start-ups or research institutions, courses of its partner universities and much more. (The presentation will be in German, questions can be posed in English.)

DFST presents itself in a new video

Get an insight into research, education and student activities at the Department of Food Science and Technology (DFST)

Life Science Awards Austria 2021

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Each year, the ÖGMBT awards prizes to young researchers who have published outstanding scientific research papers in the field of life sciences and biotechnology. The Life Science Research Awards Austria are the most prestigious life science Award a young researcher working in Austria can win. The award winners and their research topics will be presented to the scientific community and the broad public. Application closes May 28, 2021.

Guest professor: Stephen V. Evans

Professor Stephen V. Evans of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at the University of Victoria will present the lecture course Advances in Protein Crystallography in the summer term 2021 in a digital format (LV 773010). Professor Evans is an internationally renowned expert in the structure determination of glycobiology-relevant proteins, with his contributions focused on glycosyltransferases and carbohydrate-specific antibodies.