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What´s new at HITS? On this page you can find the latest news from and about HITS, including the latest scientific discoveries, personal achievements by our researchers or general changes at HITS.

The Mexican axolotl Ambystoma mexicanum (Copyright: IMP)

The largest genome ever: Decoding the Axolotl

24. January 2018

A team of researchers led by scientists in Vienna, Dresden and Heidelberg has decoded the entire genetic information of the Mexican …

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A new genome for regeneration research

24. January 2018

The planarian flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea is an extraordinary animal. Even when cut into tiny pieces, each piece can regenerate back into …

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A matter of mobility: multidisciplinary paper suggests new strategy for drug discovery

15. January 2018

A joint industry/academia study of a cancer target protein reveals unusual relation between binding site flexibility and drug-target lifetime. The …

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Kerstin Hoppenhaus and Andreas von Bubnoff to be “Journalists in Residence” at HITS

12. January 2018

The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies gives science journalists the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of computer-based, data-driven science with a …

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PSO group hosts HJAC colloquium speaker Maria Lugaro

12. January 2018

On January 9, 2018, the PSO group hosted Dr. Maria Lugaro from the Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.  …

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Job

Ariane Nunes-Alves

10. January 2018

Google Scholar ResearchGate ORCID Twitter Research Interests Kinetics and thermodynamics of ligand-protein binding Molecular modeling and simulation of protein conformational transitions …

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Prof. Dr. Tilmann Gneiting

8. January 2018

Gruppenleiter Computational Statistics (CST) am HITS Professor für Computational Statistics, Institut für Stochastik am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (…

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Library of galaxy histories reconstructed from motions of stars

4. January 2018

The CALIFA survey allows to map the orbits of the stars of a sample of 300 galaxies, a fundamental information to know …

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XII. Würzburg Workshop on supernovae and stellar hydrodynamics in Heidelberg

15. December 2017

On December 14 and 15, 2017, the PSO group organized the XIIth Würzburg workshop on supernovae and stellar hydrodynamics in Heidelberg at HITS. …

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New major release of HiFlow3

13. December 2017

Version 2.0 of  provides major and essential new features in several of its modules: The mesh module provides extended support for …

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