Research

The 8th International Summer School for Neuropathology and Epilepsy Surgery is a standard fixture in the training offered by the International League against Epilepsy and has been organised several times by the Institute of Neuropathology in Erlangen.

The extinction of the dinosaurs was not the first clear indication that changes in the environment and the climate have considerable effects on the biosphere. Smaller organisms, for example belemnites, similar to the squid of today, reacted to climate change in a somewhat less spectacular manner – namely by decreasing in size.

Since May 2018, Prof. Ballarre has been a guest researcher at the Institute of Biomaterials lead by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Aldo R. Boccaccini at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at FAU. Her stay is supported by the Georg Forster Research Fellowship for experienced researchers of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Together with researchers from FAU, Prof. Ballarre will further he research on bioactive and antibacterial hybrid coatings for complex geometry surgical orthopedic and dental implants.

'Traffic jams' can also occur in the brain and they can be damaging. Researchers at FAU have been able to prove that disrupted transportation routes in nerve cells could be a significant cause of Parkinson's disease.

An international astronomical search has now been successful as a team of researchers has located a cosmic source of energy-rich neutrinos for the first time. The search began after a single high-energy neutrino was detected by the IceCube neutrino telescope in ice in the Antarctic on 22 September 2017.

Parkinson's disease, formerly also referred to as shaking palsy, is one of the most frequent disorders affecting movement and the nervous system. Medical researchers at FAU have come across a possible cause of the disease – in the patients' immune system.

FAU is among the universities in Germany that receive the highest amounts of third-party funding from research funding organisations and government ministries, especially in the field of engineering. FAU is ranked first in Bavaria according to the DFG Funding Atlas.

The dream of travelling through time – whether to the future or to the past – is as old as mankind itself. Researchers at FAU are involved in a European research project which intends to make this dream come true – figuratively at least. In our interview, Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier, Department of Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition Lab), among others explains how this time travel works.

Dr. Tallal Osama Elshabrawy, Ph. D., from Egypt has more than 10 years of experience in physical and MAC layer research within telecommunications networks. From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Elshabrawy conducted doctoral research at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he was then awarded a PhD. He will further his research at FAU´s Chair of Information Technology with a focus on Communication Electronics until November 2018.

What effect do large-scale weather patterns have on Bavarian forest ecosystems? What role is played by regional climate conditions? What do school pupils know about climate change? Researchers at FAU have been investigating these questions in a new joint project named BayTreeNet with the help of so-called talking trees.