AU-Forsker ny vært på Radio4

2019.11.05 — Biolog Rasmus Ejrnæs bliver fast vært på det ugentlige naturprogram ’Vildspor’ på den nye Radio4.

Conference: Partnerships for a sustainable future

2018.12.17 — Join us when Aarhus University invites to a conference about UN's 17 sustainable development goals, focusing on developing sustainable solutions in collaboration between the university, public authorities and companies.

Associate Professor Philip Francis Thomsen receives the prestigious Carlsberg Foundation Distinguished Fellowship

2018.12.14 — The Distinguished Fellowship makes it possible for Dr. Thomsen to create a state-of-the environmental DNA research facility at the Department of Bioscience.

Associate Professor Wolf L. Eiserhardt receives the prestigious Sapere Aude grant of 5,9 mio DKK

2018.12.11 — The Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark is of nearly DKK 6.000.000 , and it gives Wolf L. Eiserhardt the opportunity to expand his research on the species of the tropical rainforest with a focus on biodiversity research.

A blubber coat and large amounts of fish keep Denmark’s smallest whale, the porpoise, alive in the cold winter

2018.12.07 — Porpoises are among the world’s smallest marine mammals, but despite their small size they need to maintain a body temperature of 37 degrees year-round, just like all other mammals. We, land-living mammals, would soon succumb to the ice-cold water where the temperature gets down to zero degrees in winter. How do the porpoises meet the challenge?

WATEC researcher receives Sapere Aude grant of nearly six Mio. DKK.

2018.12.05 — Today WATEC associated researcher Ass. Professor Klaus Koren receives the prestigious Sapere Aude grant of nearly six Mio DKK from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. New sensor for real time measure of the fish toxin ammonia in aquatic environments will help protect the environment and take water technology research to a new level.

A bigger nose, a bigger bang: size matters for echolocating toothed whales

2018.11.16 — Whales, dolphins, and porpoises have all evolved to use similar narrow beams of high intensity sound to echolocate prey. Far from being inefficient, this highly focused sense may have helped them succeed as top predators in the world's oceans.

Fewer females cause ripples in the duck pond

2018.11.01 — A new study from the Department of Bioscience shows a surprising decrease in the proportion of females among four common waterfowl. Researchers are concerned about the uneven gender balance and predict it could have consequences for the populations, if the trend continues.

Mentor scheme ensures new students a good start at Bioscience

2018.10.24 — The Department of Bioscience tested a mentor scheme the previous semester, where a team of older students guided students at the second semester about life as a biology student. The evaluations were very positive, and the arrangement is repeated in the spring. Here four students talk about what they got out of participating.

Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis

2018.10.17 — We humans are exterminating animal and plant species so quickly that nature's built-in defence mechanism, evolution, cannot keep up. An Aarhus-led research team calculated that if current conservation efforts are not improved, so many mammal species will become extinct during the next five decades that nature will need 3-5 million years to recover.

Great interest in new networking and career day

2018.10.09 — Around 200 students, researchers and representatives from the business community met on Friday 28 September on the Department of Bioscience networking and career day, BIO Match. See the photos from the day here.