Podcasts
What can bioinformatics do to counteract species extinction?
What does biodiversity have to do with our prosperity? There have been several mass extinctions in the history of evolution – what's different this time? And how can a bioinformatics tool help us to conserve endangered species? In this German language podcast episode with Dr Hajk-Georg Drost, previous research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen, about the loss of biodiversity, its consequences, and what bioinformaticians can do to counteract it.
Why it’s important that chromosomes break
Why do we look different from our siblings? Why do we become less fertile with age?
German language podcast episode with Dr John Weir, research group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tübingen, explains how reproduction works at the cellular level.
What has Obelix got to do with fish?
How do zebrafish patterns arise and how do you test what a gene contributes to the fish pattern?
German language podcast episode with previous doctoral student Marco Podobnik, answers these and other questions.
The sex life of algae
Daniel Liesner and Susana Coelho talk about sexual reproduction, the difficulties of finding a partner in the ocean, and switches of sexual systems.
"Auf den Grund gegangen" is the new Podcast series of the Max Planck Campus Tübingen (in German language).