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University of Potsdam
Institution
Section overview
Description
The University of Potsdam is conceived as a small university. Its motto is: Small but excellent. Presently approximately 16,000 students study in the various departments of the University of Potsdam, including about 1,300 foreign students from more than 85 countries. Five faculties form the pillars of the institution. They are the Philosophical Faculty, Humanities, Law, Economics and Social Sciences and the Natural Sciences-Mathematics Faculty. With the establishment of supra-faculty, interdisciplinary areas, the University of Potsdam places special emphasis on areas beyond the teaching and research activities of the individual institutes. These fields include for example the Geo-Sciences. Proof of the quality of the research carried out at Potsdam University is the steadily increasing funding through industry and other third parties.
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
Coordinated projects
- A comparative cellular atlas of phenotypic plasticity in leaves
- BonaRes (Module A, Phase 3): I4S - Integrated System for Site-Specific Management of Soil Fertility Subproject H: Mobile Elemental Analysis by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)
- Comparison of developmental plasticity at warm temperatures between Arabidopsis thaliana and Capsella
- Environmental plasticity of asexual endosperm formation in Arabidopsis
- Ex-situ conservation of native wild plant conservation culture - creation of a national portal
- Genomic and functional basis of response norms of the leaf economic spectrum across environmental gradients (B03)
- Organ-specificity of plastical reactions on light quality and temperature
- Phenotypic plasticity of cambial secondary growth in Brassicaceae as a function of temperature and day length (A03)
- Phenotypic plasticity of the diurnal pattern of starch metabolism in response to a fluctuating environment in Arabidopsis thaliana (B07)
- Phenotypic plasticity of thermotolerance in close relatives within the genus Capsella (A06)
- Plasticity of epidermal cell shape complexity in Arabidopsis thaliana in response to temperature (A10)
- Plasticity of heat acclimatisation in selfing and outcrossing Capsella species (A07)
- Plasticity of leaf shape and function in response to temperature in Capsella bursa-pastoris (A05)
- Plasticity of lipid metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana at different temperatures (A09)
- Plasticity of photorespiratory activity in Arabidopsis thaliana in response to nitrogen availability (B04)
- Plasticity of root hair density and patterning in Arabidopsis thaliana as a function of resources (B01)
- Plasticity of secondary walls in the vascular system of Arabidopsis thaliana with respect to water limitation (B02)
- Plasticity of the Calvin-Benson cycle in Arabidopsis in response to changing light and nitrogen availability over a diurnal cycle (B06)
- Prediction of reaction norms of enzyme and metabolite concentrations in Arabidopsis thaliana exposed to different nitrogen availabilities and temperatures
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- BIOPORE - Linking spatial patterns of anecic earthworm populations, preferential flow pathways and agrochemical transport in rural catchments: An ecohydrological modelling approach
- BonaRes (Modul A, Phase 2): I4S - Integrierted system for site-specific management of soil fertility - subproject H
- Colaborative project: Mycotoxin screening of grains during and before storage (OptiScreen) - subproject 3
- Collaboration Subject: Site-adapted nitrogen management based on subarea specific data processing – sytem-, hard- and software solution - subproject 4
- Collaborative project BIOTA South III: modelling of savannah dynamics (S-D8) fragmentation in agricultural landscapes (S-D5)
- Collaborative project: Development of innovative vaccines for poultry for simplified application (innoVAK4DART) - Subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Milking processes with model-driven development of procedures and system engineering (MeMo) - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Strategies for the development of pyrophobic and climate change-resilient forests on forest fire areas. Subproject 2: Soil vegetation and soil moisture
- Complemental Research for COP (Conference of the Parties) in Agriculture
- Effects of risk - uniformity on foraging behaviour
- Enabling technologies for RNP-mediated genome editing
- FOR 948 P2: Role of NAC transcription factors in plant senescence
- Funding program 'competence networks in the agri-food research' in the framework programme 'Biotechnology - Using and design opportunities' (level 1) 'Potsdamer network of expertise in evidence-based optimization of crops'
- GABI FUTURE - Collaborative Project: 'MAPMEN: a portfolio of user-driven tools for the design, management, visualization and analysis of functional genomics. (GABI MAPMEN)' Subproject B
- GABI FUTURE Alliance project: 'Biomass production in corn: genomics-based and system-oriented plant breeding for corn to energy' (GABI-ENERGY): Project C
- GABI FUTURE Alliance Project: CentroPlanta - Integration of growth regulating influences and centrosomal protein function
- GABI-EVAST: EValuation of the power of ASsociation Tests versus QTL mapping
- GABI-TILLING: Establishment of a central platform for testing lead gene function in crops based on TILLING
- I4S - Integrated system for site-specific management of soil fertility, Subproject H: Mobile element analysis by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
- Modelling the relationships and feedbacks between spatial patterns of anecic earthworm populations, related preferential flow pathways and agrochemical transport and degradation in rural catchments
- NATURAL DIVERSITY - Evaluation of the natural diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana for traits of agronomic or basic importance
- Plant biotechnology collaborative project: Genetic and Biomarker-based Predictive Breeding of Maize Cultivars - Sub-project F
- Regulation of the development of the male germ line in plants
- SPP 1090: Investigation of soil organic matter and soil gases with laser spectroscopic in-situ metrology
- SPP 1149: Network and integrative data analysis of gene expression and metabolite data from Arabidopsis thaliana heterosis experiments
- SPP 1315: Highly-resolved imaging in aggregated soils: Which are the interfaces formed by interaction of water flow oxygen transport and biodegradation?
Involved in research projects
- Combining approaches for phytosynthetic improvement to allow increased sustainability in European agriculture
- Cross-sector project 'AgroScapeLabs – Biodiversity Exploratories for agricultural landscapes
- Nano-imaging methods for visualization of nanoparticles in vitro and in vivo: Analysis of uptake, distribution and quantitative assessment
- Process development for extending the shelf life of boar semen
Contact
University of Potsdam
Am Neuen Palais 10
D-14469 Potsdam
Brandenburg
Germany
Phone: +49 0331/977-0
Fax: +49 0331/972163
Email: presse(@)uni-potsdam.de