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    Psychotherapy can also have side effects

    A team from the University Hospital provides an overview of the current state of science and recommendations for research and clinical practice.
    Like any treatment, psychotherapy also harbours risks and can have undesirable effects.
    Image: Theresa Wahl/UKJ
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    • Research
    Magic mushrooms invent active compound twice

    A study shows that different types of mushrooms use completely different methods to produce the psychoactive substance psilocybin
    Psilocybe cubensis grows worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions. The mushroom contains the psychoactive substance psilocybin.
    Image: Felix Blei, Leibniz-HKI
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    • Knowledge Transfer and Innovation
    Jena looks back on an exciting week of science

    Tens of thousands of visitors attend the Highlights of Physics and the MINT Festival in Jena
    Exhibition at the science festival "Highlights of Physics" in the shopping centre "Goethe Galerie" in Jena.
    Image: Nicole Nerger/Universität Jena
    • Research
    Bird flu spreads in Antarctica

    Researchers fear significant impact on bird populations
    This is a skua (a predatory gull) that died of H5N1 avian influenza.
    Image: Katharina Engl
    • Studies and Teaching
    The extra chance of a study place

    Prospective students can register for the lottery for the last remaining places on restricted-admission degree programmes until 30 September.
    Students on the Ernst-Abbe-Platz campus of the University of Jena.
    Image: Michael Bader (Universität Jena)
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    • Research
    ThWIC draws a positive interim balance

    The »Thuringian Water Innovation Cluster« presents the results of the first project phase and sets the course for the coming funding period.
    Wastewater treatment plant in Jena-Zwätzen. The »ThWIC« consortium is committed to the sustainable use of water as a resource.
    Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
    • Studies and Teaching
    Innovative ideas for university teaching

    Four projects at the University of Jena are being honoured with a fellowship for innovations in digital university teaching.
    Students follow a lecture (symbolic image).
    Image: Nicole Nerger (University of Jena)
    • Event
    • Knowledge Transfer and Innovation
    Experience science up close for a week

    University of Jena invites you to the MINT Festival and the "Highlights of Physics" / Get your tickets now
    At the MINT Festival Jena, pupils can go on an exploration tour with VR glasses.
    Image: Mario Imiella
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    • International Affairs
    • Research
    • Studies and Teaching
    Jena Photonics is in Europe’s Top League

    EU Project PHORTIFY Strengthens Education and Research Across Europe
    Researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) and the University of Jena – shown here in a laboratory at the Abbe Center of Photonics on the Beutenberg Campus.
    Image: Sven Döring / Leibniz-IPHT
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    • Knowledge Transfer and Innovation
    Kick-off for research project »MikroGraph«

    Thuringian research network develops novel sensor technology for monitoring micropollutants in wastewater
    Central sewage treatment plant in Jena-Zwätzen. The aim of the "MikroGraph" research project is to be able to directly record the concentration of pollutants in wastewater.
    Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
    • Research
    • Awards and Personnel
    First professorship for mosses in Germany

    Launch of the new research group »Bryophyte Ecology and Evolution« at the Senckenberg Institute of Plant Form and Function and the University of Jena
    Prof. Dr Julia Bechteler heads the new research group in Jena.
    Image: Dietmar Quandt
    • Knowledge Transfer and Innovation
    • Research
    Capturing carbon dioxide using an electrochemical process

    Carl Zeiss Foundation supports interdisciplinary project on CO₂ capture and storage at the University of Jena with 1.8 million euros
    Dr Tilmann Joachim Neubert in a laboratory at the Institute of Technical and Environmental Chemistry.
    Image: Nicole Nerger (Universität Jena)
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