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2020-09-30

Protect wildlife now to protect us from future pandemics

Four relevant actions should be taken into account to protect and conserve wildlife in this pandemic era.

2022-12-14

Professional development at the KLI

Each winter, the KLI organizes a two-part professional development workshop for our fellows to get to know each other-- both as people and as researchers.

2022-10-07

Press release: Public lectures reflect on long-reaching influence of Gregor Mendel on his 200th anniversary

The KLI Mendel Symposium, Mendel's Legacy in Science and Society, will be held from Oct 13th to 14th, 2022.

2021-06-17

Pregnant Females as Historical Individuals: An Insight from the Philosophy of Evo-Devo

Mihaela PAVLICEV (University of Vienna), Laura NUÑO DE LA ROSA (Complutense University of Madrid), & Arantza ETXEBERRÍA AGIRIANO (University of the Basque Country), 24 June 2021, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.

2021-01-28

Pregnant females as historical individuals: an insight from the philosophy of evo-devo

Laura Nuño de la Rosa, Mihaela Pavlicev and Arantza Etxeberria propose a solution to the individuality of pregnancy.

2018-01-18

Pre-symptomatic Genetic Counselling in Austrian Clinical Practice

KLI Colloquium on Thursday 25 January 2018, 3.00 pm at the KLI. Speaker: Bernhard Hadolt (University of Vienna)

2022-09-30

Pour une autre histoire des rapports économie-environnement

KLI fellow Marco P. Vianna Franco and coauthor Antoine Missemer blog about their new book, A History of Ecological Economic Thought, in the Chroniques de l'anthropocène.

2020-08-31

Pollution is strongly related to COVID-19 deaths in Italy

A new study by KLI Fellow Roberto Cazzolla Gatti (et al.) reveals how prolonged exposure to air pollution (especially to fine particles) has contributed to SARS-CoV-2 mortality and infections in Italy

2018-11-13

Plasticity, Stress and Evolutionary Novelties

KLI Colloquium: Günter WAGNER (Yale University), Monday 19 November, 3.00 pm

2018-05-25

Plant Stress Physiology

KLI Colloquium: Özlem YILMAZ (KLI), 5 June, 3.00 pm

2018-10-24

Philosophy Meets Art. On the Encounter between Gaston Bachelard and Albert Flocon

KLI Colloquium: Hans-Jörg RHEINBERGER (Max Planck Institute, Berlin), 30 October, 3.00 pm

2020-05-24

Philosophical Aspects of the Species Problem and Their Bearing on Comparative Biology

Virtual KLI Colloquium: Frank ZACHOS (Natural History Museum, Vienna), 2 June 2020, 5.00 pm. [br] To join our online colloquium please register with Zoom.

2019-08-20

Part 2 of Wim HORDIK´s article on the history of origin of life research in ORBITER magazine

As a young student in Russia, Alexander Oparin learned about Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. However, even though it was a convincing theory of how life on earth had evolved, it did not have anything to say about how it started.

2024-06-07

Parametric General Systems Theory and How to Apply It

Ievgeniia IVANOVA (University of Stirling, UK), 2024-06-13 15:00 (CET). To join our colloquium please register with Zoom

2024-10-09

Outreach: Waterway, power plant chain, river landscape: A short environmental history of the Danube

Martin Schmid, along with co-authors Gertrud Haidvogl, Severin Hohensinner published an article titled ‘Waterway, power plant chain, river landscape: A short environmental history of the Danube’ in the magazine Geographic Round-view - Issue 10/2024 (October). This article is mainly targeted at Class level 11 (until 13th School year) The article (in Deutsch) tells the environmental history of the Danube river, its genesis, its former floodplains that are now being intensively built up, and basic knowledge for more sustainable use of the river in the light of current climate change.

2024-09-27

Outreach: The Social Ecology of the Anthropocene

In an invited article for the Boku Magazine, Martin Schmid introduces his lecture “The Social Ecology of the Anthropocene”, which encourages long-term, interdisciplinary thinking by looking back into the past. With the climate crisis, the rapid loss of biodiversity and other global crises, it reveals the Anthropocene as a specific, historically unique way in which human societies relate to nature. (Click on title to read more...)

2024-09-28

Outreach: Solving the Riddles of Inheritance - School Workshop

Barbara Fischer, along with a team comprising of Lynn Chiu, Severin Bachmayer and others created a workshop titled Solving The Riddles of Inheritance, specifically designed to teach school students the different modes of inheritance as well as the interplay between genes and environment on the visible traits of an organism. With emphasis on familiarising students with scientific methods and scientific thinking, this workshop includes hands-on Art-Science Activity, Microscope Laboratory Activity, and a Science Quiz.

2022-12-13

Our KLife Newsletters are now online!

PDF versions of our KLife Newsletters are now available for download.

2018-04-30

Organismic Constraints on Somatic Evolution of Lymphocytes

KLI Colloquium: Bartlomiej SWIATCZAK (University of Science and Technology of China), 24 May, 3.00 pm

2020-04-24

Optimal Model Complexity in Sustainability Science

VIRTUAL KLI COLLOQUIUM: Alkistis ELLIOTT-GRAVES (University of Helsinki), 28 April, 5.00 pm. For pre-registered participants only!