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“Foraminifera are found in all the world's oceans. An international study led by the University of Hamburg has now shown that they are present in all oceans: The mostly shell-bearing microorganisms take up phosphate from the water to an unprecedented extent, which pollutes the oceans. The study has been published in the scientific journal “Nature”.”

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Nature publication: Widespread occurrence and relevance of phosphate storage in foraminifera. By Nicolaas Glock, Julien Richirt, Christian Woehle, Christopher Algar, Maria Armstrong, Daniela Eichner, Hanna Firrincieli, Akiko Makabe, Anjaly Govindankutty Menon, Yoshiyuki Ishitani, Thomas Hackl, Raphaël Hubert-Huard, Markus Kienast, Yvonne Milker, André Mutzberg, Sha Ni, Satoshi Okada, Subhadeep Rakshit, Gerhard Schmiedl, Zvi Steiner, Akihiro Tame, Zhouling Zhang and Hidetaka Nomaki. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08431-8

Felix Bloch Lecture 2024

The Magnetic Resonance Section of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) usually awards the Felix Bloch Lecture annually, which honours outstanding achievements of mature young scientists in the field of magnetic resonance over the past five years - as evidenced by scientific publications.

We are delighted that the winner of the Felix Bloch Lecture 2024, Prof Dr Jan Behrends, will be giving one of his four lectures in Hamburg.

On 30 January 2025 at 4 pm, we welcome Prof. Dr. Jan Behrends (free university berlin), who will speak at the Department of Chemistry, at the University of Hamburg.

Topic: ‘Spins at Work in Energy Conversion and Storage Devices’

Location: Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg

Where: Lecture theatre B

On 18 and 19 March 2025, we will host the 2025-PPNMR conference at our department. For two days there will be lectures and exchange on practical problems of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.