Press Releases

The best protection against my unforeseeable small-scale disasters is to take immediate action [more]

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology is mourning its longtime employee, colleague and friend Martin Kalbe. [more]

The first case-control study on medieval genetic material provides new insights into historical epidemics and their possible effects on current inflammatory diseases. [more]

Young scientist Hye Jin Park receives renowned Korean Physicist Award [more]

The efforts of bacteria in their defence against predators is so great that they can barely invest resources in offspring [more]

Experiments with bacteria show that genes can fuse together, leading to the production of novel proteins [more]

John Baines, Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and head of the research group for Evolutionary Biology at the Max Planck Institute in Plön, did receive one of the so-called "Schleswig-Holstein Excellence-Chairs". [more]