3 April 2020 press release Do urban fish exhibit impaired sleep? Light pollution can suppress the production of melatonin in fish, even at very low light intensities, a finding established by Franziska Kupprat, Franz Hölker and Werner Kloas from IGB.
1 April 2020 insight IGB researcher Sonja Jähnig appointed Professor of Aquatic Ecogeography Sonja Jähnig was a successful candidate of the Leibniz Programme for Women Professors that is aimed at top women scientists, and has now been jointly appointed as professor by IGB and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
30 March 2020 press release Sturgeon genome sequenced A team of researchers with Matthias Stöck, Jörn Gessner and Werner Kloas succeeded in sequencing the sturgeon genome, delivering a missing piece of the puzzle essential to understanding the ancestry of vertebrates.
26 March 2020 short news IGB researcher Michael Monaghan seeks experts in genetics for Corona tests Usually, IGB researcher Michael Monaghan is studying the biological diversity of freshwater organisms. But currently everything is different. Michael is organising a database of experts for Berlin to conduct corona virus tests.
24 March 2020 insight IGB in corona minimum mode In order to slow down the spread of the coronavirus resp. the disease COVID-19, research operations at Berlin research institutions were switched to emergency presence mode on 20 March 2020. What does this mean at IGB?
20 March 2020 short news Making citizen science more participatory, inclusive and citizen-led The ACTION Accelerator team – led by IGB’s Kat Austen – works with on-the-ground citizen science projects that address pollution. Eleven citizen science projects joined us at IGB for a workshop.
16 March 2020 press release Against overfishing: Save the oldies! In addition to the offspring, also keep the particularly large, older specimens alive: This management achieves good compromises between the demands of professional and angling fishing and the natural reproductive capacity of fish stocks.
4 March 2020 short news Mega does not only mean big The term megafauna is not clearly defined in biodiversity research. An international team with IGB researchers Sonja Jähnig, Fengzhi He and the former director of IGB, Klement Tockner, realized it's time to change that.
5 March 2020 short news Storms and lakes – a critical knowledge gap Rita Adrian and Hans-Peter Grossart from IGB, investigated the research knowledge about the effects of extreme weather on lake ecosystems and found out: We know too little – and that is a risk.
20 February 2020 insight Clean-up at Lake Müggelsee From car tires to toy guns – during the garbage collection campaign at Lake Müggelsee, all of this was fished out of the water.
