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University of Muenster (WWU)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The WWU Münster has developed a strong research profile in natural sciences, the humanities, medicine, law and business administration. It targets top-level research in high-performance areas for support and combines this with promoting first-class junior research staff. At the same time, by ensuring that broad research can be carried out it creates a secure basis on which excellence can thrive.
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
- Department of Biology
- Institute of Landscape Ecology
- Center for Bioethics
- Institute of Food Chemistry
- Centre for Forest Ecosystems
- Institute of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology
- Molecular Developmental Biology of Plants
- Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden
- Center for Reproductive Medicine and Andrology
- Institute of Physics
- Polyclinic for Parodontology
- Institute of Medical Microbiology
- Institute for Hygiene
- Institute of Geography
- Chair of Monetary Economics at the University of Muenster
- Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology
- Department of Ethnic Studies / European Ethnology
- Institute for Economic and Social History
- Chair of Social and Economic History
Coordinated projects
- Green treasure - wild energy crops for the benefit of landscape and agriculture, AP4 and 4
- Laser-based analyzer for the determination of 13C and H/D in methane
- Novel polysaccharide modifying enzymes to optimise the potential of hydrocolloids for food and medical applications (POLYMODE)
- Plant-enzyme interactions along the gradients of resource stoichiometry
- Research Group: Transformation and Sustainability Governance in South American Bioeconomies Part 2 (Political Science)
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- Animal welfare by genome editing? Animal ethical perspectives on genome editing in farm animals
- Bioeconomy International 2020: Advantage - New and value-creating alleles in potato through EcoTILLING and modern genome editing
- Breeding and cultivation of Circassian Dandelion (Taraxacum koksaghyz) - From wild plant to renewable industrial raw material; sub-project 2: molecular and physicochemical analysis
- Carbon4D: A landscape-scale model of soil organic carbon mineralisation in space, depth and time
- CC LandStraD, Subproject 5: Legal environment and spatial planning control systems
- Characterization of stimulants of gastric acid secretion and stomach-protective of coffee compounds and their influence of roasting parameters and the pretreatment of raw coffee
- Collaborative Project: Bio-and chemo-catalyzed pathways to functionalized glycerol derivatives (MetaGlyc); Subproject 3: Microbial conversion of glycerol
- Collaborative project: Breeding, cultivation and utilization of Circassian Dandelion (Taraxacum koksaghyz) - Development from wild plant to renewable industrial raw material - performace breeding. Subproject 2: Method development and breeding
- Contribution of fog deposition to water and nutrient cycling in a subtropical mountain cloud forest
- Development of breeding material by analysis and selection of important cropping and usability characters in so far neglected genetic ressouces of narrow leafed lupin (Lupinus angustifolius L.)
- Development of methods for meganuclease transfection without transgene integration
- ERA-IB: C. glutamicum organism as a platform for new and efficient production processes (BioProChemBB), Subproject 2: design, characterization and optimization of C. glutamicum strains for the production of aspartate and secondary Biomonomeren
- Everyday life and environment of the homeless poor ('land poor') in the 19th Century in Westphalia
- Exploration of the Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry Taraxacum koksaghyz germplasm collection: enhanced generation and development of elite breeding material for high quality rubber production
- GABI-FUTURE-collaborative projects: 'calcium and protein kinase-mediated signal transduction in plants - a functional genomic-biochemical approach based on a novel strategy to improve the performance of crops under environmental stress (GABI-CAPSITRAP)' (Project C)
- Grünschatz - Wild energy crops for the benefit of landscape and agriculture, WP 1 and 2
- Habitat-dependent regulation of plant cellular respiration in response to oxygen stress and elicitors
- High-Resolution Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope with Spectral Detection
- Influence of raw material and process on important aroma and flavor in fermented fresh dairy products
- Investigations on the occurrence, stability and thermal degradation of ergot alkaloids in rye and rye products
- Investigations on the stability and the reduction of mycotoxins T2 toxin in thermal treatment processes
- KMU-innovativ -KMUi-BÖ02: EKO-YAM - Establishment of cost-efficient and sustainable cultivation systems for yams - subproject University Münster
- MARVEL
- Mechanisms of restoration of surface and subsurface biodiversity and ecosystem functions in grasslands following land-use extensification
- Possibilities and perspectives of cooperative approaches to wood cascade use by the example of South Westphalia region / backgrounds, necessity and concepts of wood cascade use to improve resource efficiency, climate protection and economy in the cluster forest and wood
- Probabilistic modelling of carbon dynamics in peatlands across longer time periods
- Promoting the biodiversity of insects in agriculture by avoiding chemical-synthetic insecticides and herbicides. Scientific accompanying examination of insects / arthropods
- Real land rents in Westphalia, 16th to early 20th century
- Relationships and resource flows in rural society: social networks in Westphalia in the 19th century
- Relationships and resource flows in rural society: social networks in Westphalia in the 19th century
- Renaturation of peatlands of the nemoral zone under conditions of variable water availability and quality
- Renaturation of peatlands of the nemoral zone under conditions of varying water availability and quality
- Taraxacum koksaghyz as a sustainable local source for latex, rubber and inulin (second period). Subproject G
- Transfers of peasant property: Westphalia in the 19th century
- Use concepts for valuable forest Cultural Landscape (2.Phase)
Coordinated collaborative projects of subordinate institutions
Subordinate institutions as work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Breeding, cultivation and utilization of Russian Dandelion (Taraxacum koksaghyz) - turning a wild plant into an industrial sustainable resource crop
- CC-LandStraD: Climate Change - Land Use Strategies Germany; Subproject: Economic valuation of various forestry land use options with regard to their carbon storage under different environmental conditions
- Designing InnoVative plant teams for Ecosystem Resilience and agricultural Sustainability
- EU-based production and exploitation of alternative rubber and latex sources (EU-PEARLS)
- Interdependencies between Land use and Climate Change – Strategies for a sustainable land use management in Germany
- Monitoring of bird and snail infestations in mixture plant cultivation as part of the EU-project DIVERSify
- Pathogenic Escherichia coli EC-Network (PEN)
- Protection of bogs and fens in Germany
- Rating of former agricultural building construction levels
- Towards a better sunlight to biomass conversion efficiency in microalgae (SUNBIOPATH)
Contact
University of Muenster
(WWU)
Schlossplatz 2
48149 Münster
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Phone: +49/251/83-0
Fax: +49/251/83-32090
Email: verwaltung(@)uni-muenster.de