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NOMIS researcher and Salk Institute Professor Janelle Ayres has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology’s Fellowship Class of 2024. Fellows of the Academy, an honorific leadership group within […]
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
April 2, 2024
NOMIS Fellow
NOMIS Fellow
Sean Jordan is a NOMIS–ETH Fellow at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He is conducting his research under the mentorship of Sascha Quanz […]
ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich, NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Program
April 1, 2024
NOMIS Fellow
NOMIS Fellow
Taylor Priest is a NOMIS–ETH Fellow at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He is conducting his research under the mentorship of Shinichi Sunagawa […]
ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich, NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Program
April 1, 2024
NOMIS Fellow
NOMIS Fellow
David Schnettler is a NOMIS–ETH Fellow at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He is conducting his research under the mentorship of Sven Panke […]
ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich, NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Program
April 1, 2024
News
ETH Zurich has announced the three postdoctoral fellows who will join the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life (COPL) at ETH as part of the NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Program. David […]
ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich, NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Program
March 31, 2024
News
The NOMIS Foundation and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have opened a new call for proposals for the NOMIS–ISTA Fellowship Program, an interdisciplinary basic research program for […]
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), NOMIS–ISTA Fellowship Program
March 25, 2024
Project
What can we learn from art and architecture? How do buildings and artworks relate to and create connections with their surroundings? Sites are seen as intersecting and overlapping zones of […]
University of Vienna, Berlin University of the Arts
March 7, 2024
NOMIS Researcher
Professor of art history and cultural studies
Susanne Hauser is professor of art history and cultural studies at the Berlin University of the Arts (Germany). She is co-leading the Site Complexes: Models of Responsive Practices for the […]
Berlin University of the Arts
March 7, 2024
NOMIS Researcher
Professor of art history and theory
Stefan Neuner is professor of art history and theory at the Berlin University of the Arts (Germany). He is co-leading the Site Complexes: Models of Responsive Practices for the 21st […]
Berlin University of the Arts
March 7, 2024
NOMIS Researcher
Professor of art history
Sebastian Egenhofer is professor of art history at the University of Vienna (Austria). He is co-leading the Site Complexes: Models of Responsive Practices for the 21st Century project. After studying […]
University of Vienna
March 7, 2024
Insight
Ecology, Environmental Sciences
Most cryospheric ecosystems are energy limited. How their energetics will respond to climate change remains largely unknown. This is particularly true for glacier-fed streams, which interface with the cryosphere and […]
EPFL
March 1, 2024
Published in Nature Geoscience
News
Glacier-fed streams are undergoing a process of profound change, according to NOMIS researcher Tom Battin and other EPFL scientists in a paper appearing in Nature Geoscience. This conclusion is based […]
EPFL
March 1, 2024
NOMIS Researcher
Jehuda Reinharz Professor of the Humanities
Ramie Targoff is the Jehuda Reinharz Professor of the Humanities, professor of English, and co-chair of Italian Studies at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, US). She is co-leading the project Petrarch […]
Brandeis University
March 1, 2024
NOMIS Researcher
Professor of Italian and French literature and media studies
Judith Frömmer is professor of Italian and French literature and media studies at the University of Vienna (Austria). She is co-leading the project Petrarch in Global Translation: A Genealogy of […]
University of Vienna
March 1, 2024
News
It might be that what set prebiotic chemistry in motion and kept it going in the early days of the Earth was dust from outer space accumulating in holes melted […]
ETH Zurich
NOMIS–ETH Fellowship Program
February 28, 2024
News
How did cooperative behavior prevail in human evolution? NOMIS Board Member Ernst Fehr, together with other researchers from the Universities of Zurich, Lausanne and Konstanz, have challenged two prevailing explanations – […]
University of Zurich
February 26, 2024
Project
Francesco Petrarca’s Canzoniere, a collection of 366 poems written in 14th century Italy, is arguably the most influential book of love poetry ever written. Known as the “Father of Humanism,” […]
Brandeis University, University of Vienna
February 23, 2024
Insight
Economic & Social Sciences
Repeated interactions provide an evolutionary explanation for one-shot human cooperation that is counterintuitive but orthodox1,2,3. Intergroup competition4,5,6,7 provides an explanation that is intuitive but heterodox. Here, using models and a behavioural […]
University of Zurich
February 21, 2024
Published in Nature
Insight
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physics & Astronomy
Earth’s surface is deficient in available forms of many elements considered limiting for prebiotic chemistry. In contrast, many extraterrestrial rocky objects are rich in these same elements. Limiting prebiotic ingredients […]
ETH Zurich
February 19, 2024
Published in Nature Astronomy
News
NOMIS Center Director Susan Kaech and NOMIS Fellow Anna-Maria Globig, together with fellow scientists at the Salk Instistute, have discovered that lung adenocarcinoma cancer cells steer macrophage lipid metabolism to […]
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, NOMIS–Salk Fellowship Program
February 7, 2024