Although cereals naturally resist pathogenic fungi, powdery mildew can overcome this resistance. Researchers have now discovered one of the mechanisms behind this process.
Nina Hartramof from the Department of Chemistry receives the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society. The Werner Prize is awarded to promising young Swiss scientists or young foreign scientists working in Switzerland for outstanding research in the field of chemistry.
Ecological Insights from 30 Years of Forest Biodiversity Experiments
Widespread forest destruction and loss of tree species has raised concern about negative impacts on ecosystem services and human well-being. Forests are the most complex and species-rich terrestrial ecosystems and contribute more to global ecological processes such as carbon storage and climate buffering than any other ecosystem.
Benjamin Schlein receives the Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
Benjamin Schlein from the Department of Mathematics (UZH) receives together with László Erdős aund Horng-Tzer Yau the 2026 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research. They receive the prize for a paper series that develop a beautiful dynamical approach to the universality of the spectrum of random matrices at the local scale.
Among sharks and rays, species within the first four million years of existence are significantly more likely to go extinct than older species, according to a study based on fossils from the last 145 million years.
The molecular biologist Charles Weissmann was one of the leading figures in his field, his research on the antiviral agent alpha interferon brought him worldwide recognition. He passed away last Friday in Zurich at the age of 94.
