The Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CERIC) has presented the work of the University of Debrecen as a major research achievement. Applied research at the Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, focuses on aerogels.
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A record number of students attended 4th International Academic Conference at the University of Debrecen. Organized by International Student Union (ISU), the event was attended by over 400 students, who listened to presentations on academic work in the faculties, TDK opportunities and the institution's talent management programs.
TAPI Hungary Industries Kft. has recently supported the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Debrecen with two million HUF. The company’s contribution has been used to purchase laboratory equipment.
Biotechnology is one of the fastest growing fields of science: pharmaceuticals, medicine, agriculture, food and the environment are all using such techniques. The University of Debrecen launched the biotechnology programme in 1987, and it has been available as a stand-alone BSc course for three years.
The genome libraries of two protected moths, the striped Jersey tiger moth (Euplagia quadripunctaria) and the eastern eggar (Eriogaster catax), are being prepared currently by experts at the University of Debrecen within the framework of an international collaboration. The researchers’ aim is to understand the genetic structure of the moths to help conservation management in species protection.
The necessity of biodiversity monitoring, modern data collection methods, the socio-economic use of information obtained through monitoring, the launch of the environmental monitoring system of the University of Debrecen and the current phases of the work were also discussed at the 1st Biodiversity Conference.
Saigas and Asian mouflons, i.e. argali sheep, are the focal point of the most recent joint project of Evolutionary Genomics Research Group at the Department of Botany of the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Debrecen and the Institute of Biology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS). The new Hungarian-Mongolian research project is supported by a mobility grant from MTA [HAS: Hungarian Academy of Sciences].
The cooperation agreement between the Botanical Garden of the University of Debrecen and Hortobágy National Park has been renewed. From now on, the garden located at the edge of the Great Forest will not only help the national park with the preservation, propagation and replantation of endangered or extinct protected plants, but it will also plan and perform the aftercare and follow-up of the replanted plants.
A conference organised by the International Student Union (ISU), an association of foreign students, was held on Thursday at the Learning Center: students enrolled in the English-language programmes of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Debrecen (DE TTK) heard presentations on scientific work, the opportunities of TDK (Students’ Scientific Research) and the institution's talent management programmes.
A paper on the evolution and genetic architecture of a polymorphism restricted to cuckoo eggs has been published in the prestigious journal Science Advances. Several scientists from the University of Debrecen have been involved in the work since 2020.