Andrea Müller from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has been studying plants that live symbiotically with ants in Peru. Below, she shares her enthusiasm for the rainforest and how, in addition to the coronavirus, protesting coca farmers can jeopardize scientific field work.
Lima, you fly over the snow-capped Andes and the Amazon
On 12 February 2022, Charles Darwin would have been 213 years old. In honour of the British naturalist, the international Darwin Day will be celebrated worldwide tomorrow. One person who recently sailed in Darwin’s footsteps is Eduardo Sampaio from the MPI of Animal Behavior in Constance. He spent ten days on board the Captain Darwin in the waters off Cape Verde – almost 200 years after Charles Darwin visited the islands off the West African coast.
Researchers discover how microbial cooperation can emerge Amazon
To shed light on the archipelago’s settlement history, researchers sequenced and analyzed sixteen ancient genomes
Researchers discover how microbial cooperation can emerge Amazon
Artificial transcription factor reprograms cells of different mammalian species, including human, with high efficiency
Susan Trumbore on the tipping points of the fragile Amazon
Research into the development and evolution of animals and plants. The Institute’s scientists study how a fully functioning organism develops from a fertilised egg cell, and which genes are involved. They also analyse the role of these developmental processes in the emergence of new species, and examine the evolution of proteins.
christiane.nuesslein-volhard@tuebingen.mpg.de more From the MPI Amazon
Researchers from different disciplines will jointly examine cell processes at the new facility.
Environment Minister Steffi Lemke to ATTO in the Brazilian Amazon
The pathogens want to benefit as long as possible from the food supply that life in the vector mosquitoes offers them
Researchers discover how microbial cooperation can emerge Amazon
Worms provide new insights into evolution and diversity of the TGF-beta signalling pathway
Researchers discover how microbial cooperation can emerge Amazon
An interview with Matthias Meyer from the Max Planck Institut of Evolutionary Anthropology about the new analyses of the Denisova genome
Researchers discover how microbial cooperation can emerge Amazon
Brain sleep appeared early in vertebrate evolution
zebra finches back their ability to learn new songs Amazon
