Universität Hamburg (UHH)

Germany

As a University of Excellence, Universität Hamburg is one of the strongest research universities in Germany. As a flagship university in the greater Hamburg region, it nurtures innovative, cooperative contacts with partners inside and outside academia. It also provides and promotes sustainable education, knowledge, and knowledge exchange locally, nationally, and internationally.

Excellent research

Universität Hamburg boasts numerous interdisciplinary research projects in a broad range of fields and an extensive partner network with leading research and higher education institutions on a regional, national, and international scale. As part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments, Universität Hamburg has been granted clusters of excellence for 4 core research areas: CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter (photon and nanosciences), Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS) (climate research), Understanding Written Artefacts (manuscript research), and Quantum Universe (mathematics, particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology). An equally important core research area is Infection Research, in which researchers investigate the structure, dynamics, and mechanisms of infection processes to promote the development of new treatment methods and therapies.

Outstanding variety: over 170 degree programs

For its more than 43,000 students, Universität Hamburg offers approximately 170 degree programs within its 8 faculties:

A century of history

Opened in 1919, Universität Hamburg was the first democratically founded university in Germany. Nobel Prize winners such as Otto Stern, Wolfgang Pauli, and Isidor Rabi were active at the University. Other well-known scholars also taught here, such as Ernst Cassirer, Erwin Panofsky, Aby Warburg, William Stern, Agathe Lasch, Magdalene Schoch, Emil Artin, Ralf Dahrendorf, and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, to name but a few.

Career opportunities

Universität Hamburg encourages excellent researchers and talented students to join the institution’s vibrant academic community. Find all career opportunities on the University’s job portal.

1 May 2020 - 1 April 2021

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for University of Hamburg (UHH) published between 1 May 2020 - 1 April 2021 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

Count	Share
457	84.97

Outputs by subject (Share)

Subject	Count	Share
Physical Sciences	242	40.51
Life Sciences	174	33.93
Chemistry	61	14.22
Earth & Environmental Sciences	34	5.43

Highlight of the month

How a protein interacts with colliding ribosomes

© PASIEKA/Science Photo Library/Getty Images

The structure of a protein at the head of a critical cellular stress response allows it to interact with two ribosomes at the same time.

Ribosomes are cellular factories that synthesize proteins based on the instructions given by RNA. Increasingly, collisions between ribosomes are thought to set off various stress responses in cells, including the integrated stress response, which pauses protein synthesis and has been implicated in various diseases including cancer and dementia.

Now, a team led by researchers at Universität Hamburg has investigated the structure of a key protein in the integrated stress response — the ribosome-binding protein Gcn1 — and how it interacts with two colliding ribosomes.

Their structural analysis showed how the one Gcn1 protein simultaneously interacts with both the leading stalled ribosome and the ribosome coming up behind it.

This information will help to inform ways to regulate the activation of Gcn2 — the protein that Gnc1 activates in the integrated stress response.

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