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The process of food intake appears to be organized at the cellular level like a relay race: during eating, the baton is passed between different teams of neurons until we have consumed the appropriate amount of energy. This is the conclusion of a recent study by FAU researchers.

For "A cup with the president", FAU President Hornegger visits Prof. Dr. Dr. Patricia Wiater from the Chair for Public Law, Public International Law and Human Rights.

FAU scientists Dr. Patrick Krauss and Dr. Achim Schilling have now used artificial intelligence to gain major new insights into how our brains work.

Prof. Dr. Jana Hutter and Prof. Dr. Philipp Pelz and have been awarded the coveted ERC Starting Grant for their work on improving imaging processes in medicine and material sciences.

A team of researchers at Uniklinikum Erlangen and FAU were able to successfully unlock new details of the molecular mechanisms behind the neurodegenerative disease Parkinson’s.

Functional carbon particles can transform sunlight into energy and extract hydrogen from water. FAU chemist Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi is researching the carbon dots, amongst others with the help of AI.

Man-made climate change knows no limits. In future, the AGELESS consortium will investigate how marine life in our oceans affected by climate change can be protected beyond national areas of jurisdiction.

Another episode of "A cup with the president": FAU president Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger visits Prof. Dr. Philipp Beckerle, who holds the Chair of Autonomous Systems and Mechatronics.

Once you are a student at FAU, e-mails are sent to your own university inbox. This happens automatically once you activate your user ID in the IdM portal and reserve an @fau.de address. You can either access e-mails using the webmail interface in your browser or an e-mail programme like Outlook or Thunderbird. Or, if you prefer, you can forward your e-mails to your personal inbox.

As a physicist, Gabriele Chiogna is used to working on complex equations. However, it is not enough to understand how the availability and quality of water will change during the coming years. The answer to this problem varies greatly, depending on how we use this vital resource in the future.