Poster on the corona situation in Jena (March 2020)

LICHTGEDANKEN 08

The Research Magazine
Poster on the corona situation in Jena (March 2020)
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)

Keep your distance!

Keep your distance! Wear a mask! Wash your hands! Since the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has been spreading faster and faster all over the world, these rules now accompany us through our everyday life. And as long as the longed-for vaccine is not yet available, it is these simple things that are most effective in fighting the virus.

Keep your distance! We have made this dictate of reason the title of the new issue of LICHTGEDANKEN. [Read on in the editorial]

»Pandemic« in focus

Coronaviruses are being sequenced at the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control.
Image: Michael Szabó/UKJ
Fighting Viruses with Knowledge
Jena research projects on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19
Virus genomes can be analysed outside the laboratory using devices that are the size of a USB stick.
Image: Lisa-Marie Barf
Corona Workshop and Communication Centre
Bioinformatics Centre bundles tools for corona research
The communication researchers have assigned all study participants to a specific group type.
Graphic: Liana Franke
Scientific Discours around Corona Virus and the General Public
How many people seek simple answers to complex questions
Economic geographer Björn Braunschweig surveyed Jena’s shops and other places.
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
How is the Corona Crisis Affecting Companies?
Economic geographers study consequences for Thuringian companies
The quick antibody test determines whether someone has had the coronavirus at some point in the past.
Image: Jürgen Scheere (University of Jena)
A Drop of Blood is All it Takes
Coronavirus antibody test from Jena in use worldwide
Deliah Bolesta is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Jena.
Image: Stephan Laudien
Panic Buying as a Control Mechanism
Deliah Bolesta on human behaviour in times of crisis

Interviews

Uni-Präsident Walter Rosenthal über die aktuelle Lage.
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
»We have learned much this semester​«
Summer interview with university president Walter Rosenthal
Petra Dickmann is currently heading the Scientific Advisory Board of the Thuringian State Gov-ernment for the corona pandemic.
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
»We might have to go without a vaccine for quite some time«
Talk with medical doctor and communication expert Petra Dickmann
Psychologist Prof. Dr Andreas Beelmann
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
»Scientific expertise isn’t an opinion«
Andreas Beelmann on the pitfalls of science communication
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
Betretungsverbot in Jena. Gesperrte Bänke auf dem Uni-Campus (März 2020)
When Corona Came to Germany
A look back in interviews: Researchers at our university talk about the pandemic and its consequences.

Podcasts

Prof. Dr Andreas Freytag (left) and Prof. Dr Uwe Cantner discuss in the science podcast EXPERTISEN.
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
The Role of the State for the Economy in the Corona Crisis
Podcast with Andreas Freytag and Uwe Cantner
Prof. Dr Andrea Esser and Prof. Dr Nils Boysen discuss in the science podcast EXPERTISEN.
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
The Future of University Teaching after Corona
Podcast with Andrea Esser and Nils Boysen

Further topics

Image: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team.
Where stars are born: Cloud of dust and gas in the constellation Carina, about 7,500 light years away.
On thin ice
Chemical reactions on cosmic dust particles produce building blocks of life
Prof. Manja Marz: bioinformatician and Go player.
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
Portrait
Bioinformatician and European champion in playing Go Manja Marz
Commemorative medal for Eduard Rosenthal, minted in the year of his death (1926). In the back-ground: »Villa Rosenthal«.
Image: Stephan Laudien
Calendar
Eduard Rosenthal and 100 Years of the Thuringian Constitution
Geology PhD student Madeline Richter presents rock samples from the Taiwanese Yuli Belt.
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
Research at a Distance
Reportage about everyday university life during the lockdown
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