On 10 and 11 November, 30 biology teachers have visited the German Primate Center respectively for training on the subject of neuroscience.

The first of two new imaging devices was delivered to the German Primate Center (DPZ) on Monday, November 10th. With the help of a large crane, a lot of precision work and muscle strength, the device was moved into its specially constructed building. The scanner weighs twelve tons, costs nearly two million euros and starting in spring 2015, it will provide first images of the brains of primates.

The European and American neuroscience societies FENS and SfN emphasize in a joint statement the importance of non-human primates for biomedical research.

At the end of November the next training course in general primatology of the EUPRIM-Net will take place at the German Primate Center in Göttingen. The registration term ends at November 3rd.

New joint professorship for the German Primate Center and the University of Göttingen

The fully qualified lawyer started in 1989 at the German Primate Center (DPZ), after he had worked for the Federal Ministry of Research. He not only engaged himself on behalf of the DPZ, but also played a major role founding the Leibniz Association and promoted intense networking of local politics and science.

Scientists at the German Primate Center (DPZ) in Göttingen and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig have identified vital resistant mechanisms for certain immune cells against retroviruses such as HIV-1 and SIV. The results have been published in the scientific magazine Virology Journal.

Mobile DNA element allows conclusions on the evolution of apes