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Sereina Rutschmann and Jens Kiesel won the Schwörbel-Benndorf Young Talent Award of the DGL. 

Breast cancer is the most frequent type of cancer in women and currently accounts for 29% of all new cancer cases in the U.S. Wide-ranging mammography screening programs have been set up for early diagnosis. A new study shows that swarm intelligence can help to considerably improve cancer diagnosis.

After returning from his postdoctoral residency at the University of Brisbane in Australia,  Andreas Jechow visited by chance the Lake Stechlin Information Center in 2012. There he saw a scale model of the LakeLab and was immediately fascinated by the research platform and the concept behind it. Now, three years later he is part of the LakeLab team and studies the light regimes in the mesocosms.

After her master's thesis on zooplankton, biologist Susanne Stephan wanted to broaden her knowledge and did not hesitate to accept the proposed PhD position on phytoplankton at the LakeLab. Now after almost 3 months at IGB Stechlin, she is already in the thick of it, and has learned a lot of new techniques. Furthermore, she enjoys working with the highly motivated LakeLab team.

Scientiests argue that successful invaders are particularly variable and can therefore adapt to many different environmental conditions.  

A loss of forested areas can lead to a decrease in species richness in adjacent streams. This has been shown by a team from the Leibniz-Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in cooperation with additional partners.

A new online Atlas of freshwater biodiversity presenting spatial information and species distribution patterns will be launched on 29th January at the land-mark Water Lives symposium bringing together European Union policy makers and freshwater scientists.