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The Wegener lab has developed a cell-based assay to test pesticides for their harmful impact on insects. Please read the UR science blog for more.

Sandra Friedrich wins the BioPark Innovationspreis 2024 for her Master thesis on the development of a cell-based assay to identify insect-friendly pesticides. She proudly received the prize from Dr. Diefenthal, CEO of the BioPark GmbH.

13th Workshop on Biosensors & Bioanalytical Microtechniques in Environmental, Food & Clinical Analysis (BBMEC)

Tobias Naber won the award for the best oral presentation. Well done, Tobi. Photo: Tobi at work.

Sandra Friedrich und Christine Drie?lein are this year's awardees of the "Studienpreis Alfons Paulus" and "Studienpreis der Fachgruppe Analytische Chemie der GDCh" for their outstanding master projects. Congratulations to both of you.

Testing pesticides for their impact on insects

Sandra Friedrich uses insect cells as sensors to identify and judge the insecticidal activity of pesticides. This project is part of the Fraunhofer Initiative "Biogene Wertsch?pfung und Smart Farming".

5th Conference on Impedance-Based Cellular Assays in Aachen (Sept 4th - 6th, 20323)

Julia Erl won the best-poster award. Well done, Julia. Foto: Julia and Lena Schaller with Prof. Charles R. Keese, one of the inventors of ECIS.

The Wegener lab on adventure tour exploring the woods around Regensburg (July 2021)

Fraunhofer EMFT

Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies Division Cell-Based Sensors (CBS) CBS makes use of microelectronic/microoptiocal systems to measure the response of living cells to various xenobiotics.

Measuring Biological Impacts of Nanomaterials

This volume of BAR is dedicated to state-of-the-art analytical techqniues to quantify the biological impact of nanomaterials.

Label-Free Monitoring of Cells in vitro

The new BAR volume summarizes the most recent approaches in label-free monitoring of cells in vitro. The book has been dedicated to Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever on the occasion of his 90th birthday.

UR is the only university in Bavaria to offer a BSc/MSc study program in Business Chemistry. For more information, click HERE.

The Fraunhofer division Cell-Based Sensors, affiliated with the Institute for Analytical Chemistry, is part of the newly granted Collaborative Research Center TR305. In cooperation with Fraunhofer IME and ITEM, the group will develop new assay formats and readouts for targeting metastatic progression.

The Fraunhofer division Cell-Based Sensors in cooperation with the lab of Prof. Ralf Wagner (UR) is currently developing a new readout technology to monitor virus neutralization assays for SARS-CoV2. The latter are used to evaluate the effectiveness of vaccines. The project is funded by the Fraunhofer Society and combines biological amplification strategies with microelectronics.