Onze promovendus Gijs van Beilen is gekozen als een van de nieuwe #FacesofScience @KNAW! Via dit initiatief gaat hij de komende tijd van alles delen over zijn onderzoek naar de relatie tussen dieren en hun omgeving – zoals welke plekken ze nodig hebben om te leven en hoe ze omgaan met veranderingen – om beter te begrijpen hoe we de natuur kunnen herstellen en ecosystemen weer in evenwicht kunnen brengen. Bekijk hier alle nieuwe Faces of Science: https://www.knaw.nl/nieuws/van-erfgoedtalen-tot-zelfherstellende-nieren-ontmoet-de-nieuwe-faces-science

Meet our #December #calendar 2025 feature Wolfgang Vivas & Dolly Montaño, postdocs from Venezuela 🇻🇪 at Leibniz-HKI. How do they both juggle demanding research 🧪🧬 with family life 👨🏻‍👩🏻‍👦🏻 while also keeping their creativity alive? 🎨 Find it out in their interview: https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/calendar-2025-12.html

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Meet our #November feature Sophia Hitzler, a doctoral researcher at Leibniz-HKI, in this year’s #calendar 2025! From a fascination with fungi 🍄 to mentoring 👩‍🏫 and an unexpected dream job 🐳, discover her journey here: https://lmy.de/sBQAV

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🍁 Meet our #October #calendar 2025 feature: Zoltán Cseresnyés, imaging specialist at our research group Applied Systems Biology. From 1980s Hungary to super-resolution microscopy at Cambridge, he now helps researchers unlock insights from complex images. 🔬🌌
Follow the link for the full interview: https://lmy.de/LsPim

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Meet our #September feature Hannah Büttner in this year’s #calendar 2025! 👩🏻‍🔬 She explored fungal-bacterial symbiosis, loves music & art, and carries science in her bag wherever she goes. 🎒🏜️ Read her interview here: https://lmy.de/FUIJC 🎙️

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🛠️🚗 Meet Michael Hetz, our in-house technician and driver! From fixing tech to dreaming of flying a helicopter with the boss 🚁😉– discover what drives him and brings him joy 🎶🛥️in our #August #calendar feature: https://lmy.de/dXISl

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Sporty 🏸, curious, and far from cliché: In our #July feature of our 2025 #calendar, colleagues Tongta Sae-Ong & Sascha Schäuble share their paths in bioinformatics, love for movement, and why science is as much about people as it is about data: https://lmy.de/fTKMI

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Meet our #June #calendar feature François Keiff! 🌞
From Alsace to Jena, he tackled tuberculosis (#TB) with BTZ-043 during his PhD.
Discover his journey, why he sees baking as chemistry’s twin, his passion for teaching & more in his interview: https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/calendar-2025-06.html

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🩸🚑 Typ-1-#Diabetes ist behandelbar, aber bis heute nicht heilbar.
#FacesOfScience – Ekaterine Berishvili (Universität Genf) züchtet Bauchspeicheldrüsen, um damit die Krankheit definitiv zu besiegen.

Ihr Porträt ➡️ https://sohub.io/efkg

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Sie will Diabetes heilen

Die Chirurgin Ekaterine Berishvili aus Genf entwickelt Ersatzgewebe für kaputte Bauchspeicheldrüsen.

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
🩸🚑 Le diabète de type 1 se traite, mais ne se guérit pas. Pour l’instant.
#FacesOfScience – Ekaterine Berishvili, chercheuse à la faculté de médecine de l’#Unige, développe des pancréas bioartificiels afin de soigner définitivement cette maladie.
Son portrait écrit ➡️ https://sohub.io/jeml
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Elle s’attèle à soigner le diabète

Chirurgienne de formation, Ekaterine Berishvili utilise l’ingénierie tissulaire pour créer des pancréas bioartificiels.

Fonds national suisse (FNS)