It was Nobel Prize-winning chemist Bernard L. Feringa who opened the event called 20th International Conference on Chiroptical Spectroscopy, which was held in Hungary again after twenty-two years at the University of Debrecen. During the four-day conference, distinguished researchers from around the world gave talks on the latest chiroptical techniques and their applications for studying the spatial structure of organic molecules.
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Hungarian and foreign researchers analyzed data from more than 2.6 million zoo births to find out whether it is truly random which gender is born more frequently among mammals and birds. The results show surprising distortions that could jeopardize the long-term success of species conservation programs. The research was published in the prestigious journal Scientific Reports.
The nests of which host species are most often chosen by birds that leave the hatching and rearing of their offspring to others? This is the question that a researcher from the University of Debrecen sought to answer in the framework of an international collaboration using data collected about more than 6,000 bird species worldwide.
István Pócsi and Tamás Emri, professors from the Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Microbiology at the University of Debrecen, are ranked among the best in the world for their outstanding achievements in fungal stress biology. They research human, plant and insect pathogenic fungi as well as industrial microorganisms, while their research could also be relevant for industrial and pharmaceutical development.