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On the occasion of IGB's 25th anniversary, a book traces the history of the traditional water research institute at the Müggelsee.

Recent findings concerning the behavior of Amazon mollies shed a new light on the question of which factors are responsible for the individuality of vertebrate animals.

On the "Girls' Future Day", the IGB received ten students from Berlin to give them an insight into the work of researchers and technicians.

With their scientific survey on the leisure behavior of inland waters, IGB-Researchers presented themselves at the 5th Berlin Water Sports Festival in Berlin-Grünau.

How does light pollution affect the immune system of fish? Franziska Kupprat investigates this question in her PhD thesis at the IGB.

In the run-up to the Bundestag election in 2017, the IGB has identified five urgent water related issues and published them in a policy letter. In the next legislature, there is an urgent need for discussion and action for the new federal government.

As part of the BMBF ideas competition "New products for the bio-economy" a new breeding concept for protein-rich insect larvae, developed at the IGB, is promoted as sustainable future feed source.

An IGB review article was selected as one of the four best ones published in the reknown journal Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T)  in 2016.