European Research Council (ERC @ERC_Research@respublicae.eu

Over the year, many ERC grantees won major prizes and awards. 🎖️🇪🇺

3 received 2022 Nobel Prizes - Alain Aspect, Svante Pääbo and Anton Zeilinger.

By now, the ERC has backed 12 bright minds who took home a #Nobel.

More on the 2022 Nobels: https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/events/follow-nobel-week-3-erc-grantees-awarded-2022-nobel-prizes

#YearinReview

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1608417663696637955

ERC Synergy Grant funded project IMBALANCE P studied how changes in the balance of soil nutrients carbon, phosphorus and nitrogen impact #biodiversity, #climatechange, #agriculture, society and economy.

🎧 or 👀 how 👉 https://youtu.be/nONei1SAqp4

@CSIC @CREAF @IEC @UniofOxford

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1608387399498989569

Svante Pääbo won a 2022 #NobelPrize for unlocking the secrets of the Neanderthals.

Listen to his excellent Nobel lecture🎥
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps79u_jEA3g

He also stressed funding needs "ERC’s support for curiosity-driven research is essential for the European research ecosystem"👇

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1608062715314204672

🧬 ERC grantee John Diffley @TheCrick has unlocked new opportunities in structural #biology by succeeding in recreating the entire #DNA replication process.

🎧 or 👀 how 👉 https://youtu.be/MG1AgjQUZT4

#ResearchImpactEU #ERC10kGrantees

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1608032520486150144

🔭 Astronomy pioneer and one of the #ERC10kGrantees, Vernesa Smolčić probed unexplored areas of space, using highly accurate state-of-the-art radio telescopes to answer fundamental questions about the origin of the universe.

🎧 or 👀 to her explain how 👉 https://youtu.be/pjGqF0SkGps

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1607700334113349632

The International Day of Epidemic Preparedness reminds us of the importance of prevention and partnership against epidemics. ⚕️ #HealthUnion

Discover David Alsteens' project, bringing together #nanotechnology and #virology 👉 http://bit.ly/3PGU39N @UCLouvain_be @EU_Health @WHO

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1607670132566024193

How to fight #climatechange?

ERC grantee Ülo Niinemets at the Estonian University of Life sciences is doing important work in the area. His research demonstrates the importance of plant emissions on climate and atmospheric processes.

🎧 or 👀 how 👉 https://youtu.be/pBiX6swJYI0

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1607353043879866369

🦟 By targeting #bonemarrow, @MattMartiLab's team @UofGlasgow hope to block a deadly parasite’s ability to transmit #malaria – an important step towards developing drugs and #vaccines that could eventually eradicate the disease.

👉 https://bit.ly/3uS0zRh

@CORDIS_EU #mosquito

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1607307747770642433

Researcher @RNavigli revolutionised multilingual #translation using efficient, sophisticated algorithms; creating big knowledge databases from public sources.

Listen to him explain his research 🎧 https://youtu.be/CYnj-NDhtCo #podcast

#ERC10kGrantees @SapienzaRoma @RicercaSapienza

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1606250779878518784

🌋 Thanks to global plate reconstruction models @tamsinmather & team @UnivOxford @OxUniEarthSci identified the main #geological process from the Toarcian age that 🔗 to #volcanic events & #climatechange.

👉 https://bit.ly/3PuG0Uu

#inorganicchemistry #geology @CORDIS_EU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1606197967983357952

@tanjaslotte & team @Stockholms_univ have solved the long-standing riddle of the supergene that causes efficient #crosspollination in 🌺.

Read more about sequence length variation at the #DNA level 👉 https://bit.ly/3FUzZ0l

#genetics @CORDIS_EU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1605871951582760962

Can a virus can be blocked from entering a human cell, to prevent global health emergencies such as #covid19?

David Alsteens @nBIO_lab uses #nanotechnology to decipher how a virus and a cell interact.

👉 https://bit.ly/3PGU39N

#EUHealthResearch @UCLouvain_be @EU_Health @WHO

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1605518948992430080

At our #CitizenScience event in early December, several ERC funded researchers presented their work.

To find out what they discovered, read the slides or watch the recording 🎥.

👉 http://erc.europa.eu/news-events/events/citizen-science-and-frontier-research-erc-annual-event-2022

@mhaklay @ucl @jacobsherson @Aarhus_BSS @CSIC @ispex_eu @UniLeidenNews

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1605492275714592769

#CitizenScience has the potential to strengthen our sustainable development and also make research more democratic.

Dorte Riemenschneider, @EuCitSci Director, & Silke Voigt-Heucke, head of Citizen Science @mfnberlin, explain its transformatory power.

👉https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/magazine-article/transformative-potential-citizen-science

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1604852461386227713

Some 80 ERC projects contributed evidence to @IPBES latest reports providing robust scientific basis for today’s #COP15 deal on #biodiversity protection.
Read more about ERC-funded research in the area 👉https://erc.europa.eu/tags?f%5B0%5D=tag%3A488.
RT @vonderleyen: I welcome the historic outcome of #COP15.
The world has agreed on unprecedented and measurable nature protection and restoration goals and on a Global Biodiversity Fund.

And investing into nature als…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1604833885816332291

Do you ever wonder why #Neanderthals disappeared?

It looks like #char from ancient fires and #stalagmites in caves hold important clues. Researchers @Unibo & @ULL use 🆕 techniques for new results.

👉 https://bit.ly/3Yp5WoH

#geochemistry #ethnoarchaeology #paleoanthropology

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1604768992404832256

#UrbanRural connections could boost #resilience in the face of change - research from @IanScoones & team @PASTRES_erc @IDS_UK.

👨‍🌾 Read about the benefits of a livestock-raising lifestyle 👉 https://bit.ly/3VUZxjz

#governance #environmentalscience #pastoralism #biodiversity

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1604454024321044481

Enlightening discussion between the newest @NobelPrize winners.

On their breakthroughs, on how ideas come about and more.

"Nobel Minds" with @TheZeinabBadawi.

🎥 Watch it back @svt
(click ‘spela’)
https://www.svtplay.se/video/KD95z2R/nobel-2022-snillen-spekulerar
From the UK, watch on the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001gyp0/nobel-minds

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1604420781471055872

#Celldivision is fundamental to life, but still not fully understood.

@SPOREMOHAN & his team @warwickuni take a closer look at the the complex ring of #proteins that guide the process.

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/3YkSgv3

#microscopy #biochemistry #biomolecules #genetics

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1604068922512539648

To enable Indigenous Peoples to record and show how #climatechange affects their #environment, Victoria Reyes-García & her team worked to create a #CitizenScience platform.

How did it pan out? 👉 http://erc.europa.eu/news-events/magazine-article/bringing-indigenous-and-local-knowledge-climate-change-research

@UABBarcelona @LICCI_ERC @ICTA_UAB 📷 ©Joel Redmano

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1603795080279887872