This year's Lasker-DeBakey Prize for Clinical Research to Douglas Lowy and John Schiller celebrates the science behind one of the greatest advances in the history of cancer research: the development of vaccines that prevent infection and thus prevent tumor induction by pathogenic strains of human papilloma virus (HPV).

Institute of Biology, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, Sylviusweg 72, 2333BE Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA; Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, E...

This is a write-up of lectures on basicN = 1 supergravity in four dimensions given during a one-semester course at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. Aimed at graduate students with some previous exposure to general relativity and rigid supersymmetry, we provide a self-contained derivation of the off-shell supergravity multiplet and the most general couplings of chiral multiplets to the la...

This article represents the written version of the introductory lecture of the author at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena on 8 October 2004. The article deals with objectives and contents of informatics and mathematics classes in secondary schools, with questions of using computers in any subjects and with the research carried out in the Casio foundation professorship for didactics of ...

1 Aberdeen Fungal Group, MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 2 Mucosal & Salivary Biology Division, Dental Institute, King’s College London, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms, Hans Knoell Institute, and Friedrich Schiller University, ...