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Liquid-phase 3D electron microscopy for materials science and biology – Liquid3DSTEM
The objective of the project is to establish the technique of electron microscopy in 3D mode and in liquid phase (3D liquid STEM) as a new modality of 3D microscopy. Liquid phase STEM allows the study of samples in a liquid. The establishment of the technique in 3D would open a new avenue for nanoscale characterization of samples from materials science and biology.
Exploring the effects of microcalcification on plaque vulnerability – MICROEXPLORATION
Cardiovascular mortality often relies on the rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque, which is a pathological accumulation of cholesterol in arteries. Plaques also accumulate calcium, but the impact of calcium deposition on plaque stability, and the putative beneficial effect of its prevention remain to be determined.
Miniaturized Multi-axis Quantum Sensors – MiniXQuanta
The primary goal of this project is to realize a miniaturized cold-atom interferometer that is capable of measuring the full three-dimensional acceleration and rotation vectors. To simplify and miniaturize the multi-axis sensor, a diffraction grating will generate all the beams required using a single incident laser. Finally, we will realize the first multi-axis interferometer with ultra-cold atoms on a hybrid magneto-grating chip.
Droplet-based Textile Microfluidics for High-Throughput Organoids Screening – DROMOS
Droplet-based Textile Microfluidics for High-Throughput Organoids Screening
Adaptation mechanisms in food-fermenting Penicillium fungi – FUNGADAPT
Adaptation mechanisms in food-fermenting Penicillium fungi
Russians and Kurds in the Middle East (late 19th-21st centuries): The Tribal Factor in Imperial Strategies – Ruskurd
While Russian policy in the Middle East has been widely discussed in recent years, due to its part in the crisis the region has experienced since the early 21st century, the project aims at putting the relationship between Russia (broadly defined as the political space of the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union) and the Kurds, a minority and transborder group, since the 19th century.
Chiral Lewis Bases – Pivotal Species for Asymmetric FLP- and Lewis Acid-Catalysis – CLABcat
As a possible alternative to transition metals as catalysts, chiral frustrated Lewis pairs and chiral strong Lewis acids, both non-metallic, are struggling to develop their full potential due to the hitherto crucial need for chiral boron-based strong Lewis acids, which are difficult to access and handle. CLABcat proposes 2 approaches to overcome this hurdle.
Cybergenetic circuits to test composability of gene networks – CyberCircuits
Quantitative and synthetic biology live in a state of quiet denial: while the analogy of genetic to electronic circuits is commonly invoked and depicted, we routinely fail to make correct predictions about network dynamics from “known” properties of the network’s components. We aim to develop novel approaches for understaning and cosntructing synthetic circuits based on hybrid bio-digital citcuits implemented partially in cells and partially in computers.
Speed-up parallel programing with broadcast communications based on hybrid radio network on chip – RAKES
Speeding-up parallel programing with broadcast communications based on hybrid wireless/wired network
Weak-interaction studies with 32Ar decay – WISArD
The Doppler effect of protons emitted after beta decay of 32Ar allows the access to the beta-neutrino angular correlation that indicates which contributions are presents in the weak interaction: scalar, vector, tensor or axial-vector contributions. A specifically designed experimental set-up will improve constraints by a factor of 5.
