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  5. The University of Jena welcomes fourteen new trainees

    Once again, the group includes two trainee chemical laboratory technicians who will be learning and working at the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences over the next three and a half years

    Trainer Regina Floderer with Fynn Blätterlein and Mia Freitag (from left), who began their training as chemical laboratory technicians at the University of Jena in 2026.
    Image: Marco Körner

  6. Amoebae: Master Tunnel Builders

    Researchers from Jena, Cambridge and Bengaluru discover a special communication pathway in social amoebae—and a possible building block on the path to complex life

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    The microscopic image shows amoebae cells connected to one another via tunnelling nanotubes (arrow). The nanotubes enable the exchange of cellular contents between the amoebae. The amoeba cells are shown in orange, and the cellular material in blue. The scale bar is 10 µm long.
    Image: Harikumar Suma | Leibniz-HKI

  7. Oil beetle larvae smell like flowers to manipulate bees

    For the first time, a research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and University of Jena has demonstrated that insects can mimic floral scents to manipulate pollinators

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    The female European oil beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus): These flightless, highly poisonous beetles are hard to miss during spring walks through fields and meadows.
    Image: Danny Kessler
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