News

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.

Lectures and Hands-on sessions in Computational Biophysics!

16. September 2015

How can a bird sense magnetic fields, how does our ear detect sound waves, how does our bone feel gravitation? It …

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Universum: Simulationen am Supercomputer

10. September 2015

This text is only available in German. Davon träumt die Wissenschaft: An einem Computer zu simulieren, wie sich das Universum …

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No. 20 | 9-2015

1. September 2015

How HITS set everything in motion at Explore Science, the new research group of Anna Wienhard, collapsing proteins, as well as …

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Spindle pole body bridge on the front cover

13. August 2015

HITS scientists Musa Özboyaci and Prof. Rebecca Wade (MCM group) have performed calculations that help to understand the process of cell …

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How Human Cells Can Dissolve Damaging Protein Aggregates

11. August 2015

Heidelberg researchers decode fundamental mechanism using in-vitro experiments Cellular repair systems can dissolve aggregated proteins and now Heidelberg researchers have successfully …

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International Summer Science School 2015 at HITS

10. August 2015

Once again HITS welcomes two students in the framework of the International Summer Science School Heidelberg (ISH). The project allows young …

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A warm welcome to Sebastian Sturm!

10. August 2015

Sebastian Sturm from the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Leipzig has joined the group to work on the fitting of data …

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Revealing the behaviour of von Willebrandt Factor through experiments and simulations

4. August 2015

Dr. Camilo Aponte-Santamaria has recently published three papers revealing the behaviour of the von Willebrandt factor. The work describes a new …

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The reactivity of click-chemistry isomers revealed by QM calculations!

4. August 2015

In this study Wagner et al. systematically quantified the reactivity of newly discovered TCO* conformers with tetrazines in comparison to other …

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How Complex Problems Become Simple

22. July 2015

Mathematician Anna Wienhard is the new Research Group Leader at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). In addition to her …

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