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From the Cell to Clinical Application
Artificial intelligence is redefining the journey from cellular discovery to clinical application, enabling breakthroughs across biology, medicine, and technology. This DLD26 expert panel, moderated by Fabian Theis, brings together pioneers…
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Oceans, Forests, Ice – Biodiversity in Crisis
Three SNSB scientists discuss the critical state of biodiversity across different ecosystems – oceans, tropical forests, and past ice age environments. Gert Wörheide, an expert on marine biodiversity, highlights the…
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Understanding the Forest
Did you know that water buffalos used to be common in Europe? “They were here by the millions in Germany alone”, award-winning documentary filmmaker Jan Haft recalls in this fascinating…
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Biodiversity: Setting the Scene
The DLD Nature talk by tropical biologist Dr. Frauke Fischer (University of Würzburg) acts both as a biodiversity primer and a wake-up call, prompting us to urgently address this planetary…
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Can AI Unlock the Secrets of Animal Talk?
With machine learning systems trained on the sounds of nature, the Earth Species Project aims to decode how different species communicate. What can we expect of an “animal GPT”?
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The Biodiversity Risk Filter: A Tool to Save Lives
The biosphere sustains all life on Earth but is extremely small relative to the planet, as WWF Germany’s Christoph Heinrich explains in his evocative DLD Circular presentation. “The biosphere is…
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AI & Bioacoustics: Tracking Biodiversity with BirdNET
In this DLD talk you’ll hear about a new AI tool that can identify bird species by sound. Bioacoustics researcher Stefan Kahl is the Lead for the BirdNET project within…
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Perspectives on Biodiversity
Loss of habitat, climate change, pollution, overexploitation of resources – these are some of the biggest issues we face today in terms of protecting nature and sustainability. Addressing these issues…
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The Sound of Life
The world of animals and nature is much richer than our ears tell us, as this captivating DLD session with Karen Bakker (University of British Columbia) and Michael John Gorman…
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This Way to the Universe
NASA’s celebrated James Webb Telescope recently discovered spiral galaxies which were born almost 14 billion years ago, shortly after the big bang – the beginning of the universe as we…
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Astrobiology
Are we alone in the universe? That’s one of the biggest questions in human history – and it’s closely related to another: What does it take to make life possible…
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Decoding the Hidden Sounds of Nature
Author and researcher Karen Bakker explores how technology helps us understand the way animals and plants communicate – and why that’s vital to human life on Earth as well.
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