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Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Institution
Section overview
Description
Founded in 1477, Mainz University is one of the oldest German universities. In its diversity of students, its global outlook, as well as its outstanding research it is also a university of compelling change. The University is one of the largest in Germany, and it is the research center of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. With degree programs available in more than ninety subjects and in numerous combinations, the range of courses we offer is extremely wide and covers all areas, be it the humanities, social studies, law, economics, or medicine. Moreover, the integration of the Academy of Fine Arts and the School of Music is unique in the German landscape of higher education. Currently, some 35,000 students, 14 percent of them from abroad, take advantage of these opportunities.
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
- Institute of Geography
- Institue for Zoology
- Department of Anthropology and African Studies
- Institute for molecular genetics, genetic engineering research and consulting
- Institute for Microbiology and Wine Research
- Department of Applied Molecular Biology
- Institute of Molecular Biophysics
- University Medical Center Mainz
- Geographisches Institut
- Institute of Translational Immunology
Coordinated projects
- Bottom-up design and fabrication of industrial bio-inorganic nano-porous membranes with novel functionalities based on principles of protein self-assembly and biomineralization (MEM-S)
- Collaborative: Early detection and correction of faulty fermentation process to increase the security and loss prevention in biogas plants, with special reference to propionic acid fermentation (sub-project 1)
- Phylogeny and phylogeography of Sulawesi tarsiers shear
- Wheat sensitivity: Influence of wheat varieties and growing conditions on the innate immunity
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- Acclimatization and mortality: How European forests react to increasing drought stress
- BIOTOXMARIN - Development of novel analytic tools for the detection of marine biotoxins
- Collaborative project BIOTA West III: Socio-political dimension of land use and species protection in West Africa
- Collaborative project: Development of DNA-based methods for the identification of fish and fishery products, as well as crustaceans and molluscs for practical use in the food and import control - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Genomic and proteomic architecture and environmental variability of quality and health related traits in wheat for innovative new wheat varieties and products - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Identification and functional characterisation of the Co (columnar) -gene in columnar apple varieties as a basis for a systematic use in breeding - Subproject 2
- Globe: Wetlands in East Africa
- Sorosphaera SP. (Plasmodiophorales), a new Endoparasitenart in Vitis sp. -- Initial description, phylogeny and ecology
Subordinate institutions as work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- CASCADE - Chemicals as contaminants in the food chain: an NOE for research, risk assessment and education
- In vitro tests for photogenotoxicity assessment as alternatives to photocarcinogenicity tests in ro-dents (Project part 1).
- Studies on the etiology, epidemiology and control of grapevine yellows diseases and diagnosis of associated phytoplasmas
Contact
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Saarstr. 21
55122 Mainz
Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)6131 39-0
Fax: +49 (0)6131 39-22919
Email: presse(@)uni-mainz.de