Botanical Garden

Welcome to the Faculty of Biological Sciences

Botanical Garden
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The Faculty of Biological Sciences represents a broad variety of biological disciplines as well as the nutritional sciences and pharmacy. Famous scholars such as the botanist Matthias Jacob Schleiden (1804-1881) and the zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) worked here with their sunny and dark sides.

The Faculty of Biological Sciences cooperates with other faculties of the Friedrich Schiller University and non-university research institutes of the Max Planck Society and the Leibniz Association in several coordinated research projects. These projects are part the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" External linkfunded by the German Research Foundation.  

  • Exzellence cluster Balance of the Microverse
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    Research Cluster Balance of the MicroverseExternal link

    The Research Cluster investigates the complex interactions of microorganisms with other organisms and with their environment, which are of great significance for the functioning of ecosystems, our climate and the well-being of plants, animals and humans.

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    Interdisciplinary research reveals adaptation mechanisms of microscopic algae

    Study by researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" shows how the green alga can adapt its shape and metabolism under natural conditions without changing its genome.
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    More attention for influential survivalists

    At the initiative of a biologist from the University of Jena, young researchers are calling for more intensive research into mosses
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    A fox in a garden.
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    A tree for Jane Goodall

    An oak tree was planted in the botanical garden in honour of the famous primate researcher Jane Goodall
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    The preparation makes the poison

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