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Physicist Rafal Dunin-Borkowski, Professor at Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University has been awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The Director at the Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons will use the funding, worth € 2.5 million over a period of five years, for the development of electron microscopy methods which allow the mapping of magnetic fields in the interior of materials at almost atomic resolution. Fundamental research in the field of nanomagnetism stands to benefit from the success of this project as well as application-oriented research.

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Gianluca Geloni, Vitali Kocharyan, and Evgeni Saldin will be awarded the Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation by the Association of Friends of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. Together with Paul Emma from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the physicists from DESY and European XFEL will receive the prize for their invention of a self-seeding option that significantly improves X-ray free-electron lasers.

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Jülich, 12 December 2012 – Prof. Joachim Treusch has been awarded the 2012 Minerva Prize by Jülich’s Museum Association. Treusch, who served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich for many years, received the award at an evening ceremony in the Schlosskapelle of the Jülich Citadel on 11 December. Prof. Achim Bachem, chairman of the association, paid tribute to his predecessor in the welcoming address, saying, “We are awarding the Minerva Prize to Joachim Treusch in this anniversary year for his outstanding work in bringing together culture and science in the town of Jülich.”

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The vision is enticing – board in Europe, sit back, and disembark 90 minutes later on the other side of the world, in Australia. But before the SpaceLiner, which is being developed by the Institute of Space Systems at DLR, can fly a route like this for the first time, new technologies still have to be tested and basic requirements defined.

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The chemist Professor Michael Glickman of Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, has been named to receive the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) for his outstanding research achievements. With the award, which is endowed with 45,000 euros, Professor Glickman will intensify his long-standing collaboration with the cell biologist Professor Thomas Sommer at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, and he will also conduct research at the MDC. The award will be presented to him in the spring of next year.

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The chemist Professor Michael Glickman of Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, has been named to receive the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) for his outstanding research achievements. With the award, which is endowed with 45,000 euros, Professor Glickman will intensify his long-standing collaboration with the cell biologist Professor Thomas Sommer at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, and he will also conduct research at the MDC. The award will be presented to him in the spring of next year.

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Phagocytes ingest particles as well as pathogens from their surroundings into compartments called phagosomes. The phagosomes possess a harsh milieu with microbicidal function; therefore the phagocytes represent the first line of defense against infections. However, some intracellular pathogens, including members of mycobacterial species, manipulate the phagosomes to survive within them.

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Jülich, 10 December 2012 – Vanessa Derichs, Carsten Graf, Ingo Heimbach and Florian Rhiem are among the best trainees in Germany. The materials tester, the industrial electrician and the two mathematical and technical software developers from Forschungszentrum Jülich passed their final examinations with the best marks nationwide in their chosen occupations. At a ceremony hosted by the Federal Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Berlin today, together with the other top-ranking trainees, they will be presented with a special award by the Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Kristina Schröder.

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Collaboration between two Helmholtz Centres: Neuroscientists and infection researchers focus on interdisciplinary partnership to study brain diseases. & Two institutions of the Helmholtz Association are joining forces for health research: How does the brain protect itself from pathogens? Can infections favour Alzheimer's disease? Scientists from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Bonn and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig want to tackle such questions together over the next few ...

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Two institutions of the Helmholtz Association are joining forces for health research: How does the brain protect itself from pathogens? Can infections favour Alzheimer’s disease? Scientists from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Bonn and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig want to tackle such questions together over the next few years. The interdisciplinary collaboration will receive funding of approximately 600,000 Euro. The researchers hope to discover new facts about dementia and other brain diseases.

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