
Lectures and Hands-on sessions in Computational Biophysics!
How can a bird sense magnetic fields, how does our ear detect sound waves, how does our bone feel gravitation? It …

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

No. 20 | 9-2015
How HITS set everything in motion at Explore Science, the new research group of Anna Wienhard, collapsing proteins, as well as …

Spindle pole body bridge on the front cover
HITS scientists Musa Özboyaci and Prof. Rebecca Wade (MCM group) have performed calculations that help to understand the process of cell …

How Human Cells Can Dissolve Damaging Protein Aggregates
Heidelberg researchers decode fundamental mechanism using in-vitro experiments Cellular repair systems can dissolve aggregated proteins and now Heidelberg researchers have successfully …

International Summer Science School 2015 at HITS
Once again HITS welcomes two students in the framework of the International Summer Science School Heidelberg (ISH). The project allows young …

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

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

The reactivity of click-chemistry isomers revealed by QM calculations!
In this study Wagner et al. systematically quantified the reactivity of newly discovered TCO* conformers with tetrazines in comparison to other …

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