1 July 2026
SCHOOL: Markneukirchen Grammar School
EVENT: Science and Arts Days
TOPIC: Student experiment on CRISPR/Cas9 and DNA sequencing

26 June 2026
SETTING: Science Night at the HSMW

6 June 2026
SETTING: Deckerberg e.V., Mittweida
TOPIC: The influence of landscape and land management on mason bees in orchards

3 June 2026
SETTING: Dies Academicus 2026, Zittau/Görlitz
University of Applied Sciences TOPIC: The influence of landscape and land management on mason bees in orchards

20–21 May 2026
SETTING: 26th Young Researchers’ Conference, Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences
TOPICS: Melissa Berger: Whole-genome sequencing vs. metabarcoding
Sabine Rucks: Identification of subspecies and determination of their genomic proportions in Buckfast bees as a basis for varroa resistance breeding 

23 April 2026
SETTING: Teacher training
TOPIC: CRISPR/Cas9 and DNA sequencing

2 April 2026
SCHOOL: Markneukirchen Grammar School
SETTING: Learning camp for Markneukirchen and Rodewisch
Grammar Schools TOPICS: Bacterial identification
; cryptorchidism in sheep poodles

28 March 2026
SETTING: University Information Day

24–26 March 2026
SETTING: 73rd Annual Conference of the Working Group of Institutes for Bee Research (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Institute für Bienenforschung e.V.), Braunschweig
TOPICS: Mason bees’ nesting success in apple orchards depends on landscape diversity, management and nest position Ciao Varroa – Genome-wide association studies in honey bees (Apis mellifera spp.) with regard to Varroa resistance breeding

20 February 2026
School: Freie Landschule der Generationen, Döbeln
SETTING: Visit by pupils with experiments on the topic of water

2 February 2026
SCHOOL: Oschatz
Grammar School CONTEXT: Support for biotechnology/bionics lessons through practical experiments
TOPIC: Bacterial identification

26 January 2026
SCHOOL: Oschatz
Grammar School CONTEXT: Support for biotechnology/bionics lessons through practical experiments
TOPIC: Airborne germs

17 January 2026
SCHOOL: Markneukirchen Grammar School
SETTING: Open Day
TOPIC: A Living Guest Book

15 January 2026
CONTEXT: University Information Day

15–18 December 2025
SETTING: BES Annual Meeting, Edinburgh
TOPIC: Effects of landscape diversity, management, pollen diet, and microbial composition on Osmia bee health in apple orchards

11 December 2025
TOPIC: “Decoding Rhodobacter sphaeroides – Complete genomes of strain DSM158 and its substrain H2”
SETTING: International Workshop “Bioinformatics meets Machine Learning”

10 December 2025
SETTING: Physics and Chemistry Christmas Lecture

9 December 2025
SETTING: Science Flash Research Day, Mittweida
University of Applied Sciences TOPIC: Mittweida

Bee Competence Centre 28 October 2025
TOPIC: “Everything without chemicals! – Is that even possible?”
SETTING: Phänomenia Stollberg (guest lecture)

Academic year 2025/26
SCHOOL: Markneukirchen Grammar School
SETTING: Support for the GTA programme through biotechnology experiments in the Science Lab

club 22–27 September 2025
TOPIC: “Mutated or not mutated? – A sigma factor mutation that putatively affects nitrogen and hydrogen metabolism in R. sphaeroides 2.4.1 substrain H2”
CONTEXT: ICOLE Conference, Lessach

, 10–11 September 2025
SCHOOL: Johann-Gottlieb-Fichte School, Mittweida
SETTING: Project week marking 125 years of the Johann-Gottlieb-Fichte School
TOPIC: That’s how it is with bees

1–5 September 2025
SETTING: GfÖ Annual Meeting, Würzburg
TOPIC: How do landscape diversity, management, pollen diet and microbial composition influence Osmia health in apple orchards?

29 August 2025
CONTEXT: Kick-off event for the 5th Saxon Organic Experience Days at Biobauernhof Bohne, Stollsdorf
TOPIC: What distinguishes honeybees from wild bees?

7 July 2025
NURSERY SCHOOL: Villa Zwergenland Nursery, Hainichen
SETTING: Visit by pre-schoolers featuring simple chemistry experiments

25 June 2025
EVENT: Science Days at Markneukirchen Grammar School
TOPIC: Pupil experiment PV92

20 June 2025
EVENT: Night of Science

, 19–20 June 2025
Tom Schmidt: Genome-wide genetic association studies in honey bees (Apis mellifera spp.) with regard to breeding for Varroa resistance
Anna Nauruschat: From DNA sequences to insights into protein function – re-analysis of a purple bacterium strain
Vanessa Bergler: Optimisation of DNA isolation methods for the microbiome analysis of wild bee brood cells and individuals
EVENT: 25th Early-Career Researchers’ Conference, Merseburg University of Applied Sciences

4 June 2025
SETTING: Children’s University – Experimenting in the Park, Wilhelm-Ostwald-Park, Großbothen
TOPIC: Where do wild bees find their breakfast?

22 May 2025
NURSERY: “Rappelkiste” nursery, Ottendorf
SETTING: Visit by pre-schoolers featuring simple chemistry experiments

16 April 2025
SETTING: Learning Camp organised by Markneukirchen and Rodewisch Grammar Schools
TOPIC: Learning to understand ecosystems by reading DNA – Molecular Cuisine

22 March 2025
EVENT: University Information Day

20 February 2025
SCHOOL: BSZ Schneeberg
TOPIC: Triple-fluorescence staining of mouse fibroblasts
CONTACT: Mr Thomas

7 February 2025
SCHOOL: Oschatz Grammar School
SETTING: Supporting biotechnology/bionics lessons through practical experiments
TOPIC: Bacterial identification

31 January 2025
SCHOOL: Oschatz Grammar School
CONTEXT: Supporting biotechnology/bionics lessons through practical experiments
TOPIC: Airborne bacteria

9 January 2025
CONTEXT: University information day

17 December 2024
EVENT: Nobel Prize Lecture

11 December 2024
EVENT: Christmas lecture on physical chemistry at the HSMW

5 December 2024
TOPIC: ‘From DNA Sequence Reads to Effects on Protein Function – SNP Reanalysis of a Purple Bacteria Strain’
SETTING: International Workshop ‘Bioinformatics meets Machine Learning’

3 December 2024
TOPIC: Investigation of bacteria in the swan pond
SETTING: BELL at Mittweida Grammar School

16 November 2024
TOPIC: 3rd Bee Health Day
SETTING: Saxony State Association for Varroa-Resistant Breeding e.V.

9 November 2024
TOPIC: Green bridges for animals – How we can
reconnect habitats CONTEXT: HSMW Children’s University

28 September 2024
TOPIC: How can we really protect our wild bees?
ORGANISER: State Harvest Festival

15–21 September 2024
TOPIC: ‘Development of a method for base modification in Cereibacter sphaeroides using Cas9’ ORGANISED BY: ICOLE Conference, Lessach

16–18 August 2024
TOPIC: Varroa mite monitoring in honeybee colonies
SETTING: Saxony State Association for Varroa-Resistant Breeding e.V.

18 July 2024
TOPIC: Investigation of bacteria in the Schwanenteich
lake ORGANISED BY: BELL at Mittweida Grammar School

22–23 June 2024
TOPIC: Monitoring of Varroa mites in honeybee colonies
ORGANISER: Saxony Regional Association for Varroa Resistance Breeding e.V.

15 June 2024
TOPIC: “All without chemicals! – Is that even possible?”
ORGANISER: HSMW Children’s University

13–14 June 2024
Tom Schmidt: Genetic analysis of honeybee brood with regard to their Varroa resistance-associated genes and gene regions
Anna Nauruschat: Development of a method for base editing in Cereibacter sphaeroides using Cas9
Sabine Rucks: Genome assembly of the Buckfast honey bee
Beatrice Schröder: Orchard meadows as a microbiome: Analysis of wild bee pollen to gain ecological insights
Melissa Berger: Pollen transfer by solitary wild bees in Central Saxony’s
orchard meadows CONTEXT: 24th Young Researchers’ Conference, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences

12 June 2024
EVENT: HSMW Study Information Evening

31 May 2024
VENUE: Night of Science
Topic: A biotechnological perspective on the apple

25–26 May 2024
TOPIC: Artificial insemination of honey bees
CONTEXT: Varroa resistance breeding (Saxony State Association for Varroa Resistance Breeding e.V.)

13 April 2024
EVENT: Study Information Day

13 April 2024
TOPIC: Assessing pollinator health using DNA pollen analyses
SETTING: 1st South-West Biodiversity Conference, Rhineland-Palatinate Beekeepers’ Association

26 March 2024
SETTING: Learning Camp organised by Markneukirchen and Rodewisch Grammar Schools
TOPIC: The Code of Life – Extracting DNA

21 March 2024
TOPIC: What exactly is biodiversity and why is it so important?
SETTING: Goethe Grammar School Auerbach Learning Camp

8 March 2024
SETTING: SPIN2030
TOPIC: Children’s University – What to do when bees fall ill?

10 February 2024
TOPIC: Gene marker-assisted beekeeping
SETTING: ‘Tolerance-Biene-RLP 2024’ project days, Rhineland-Palatinate Beekeepers’ Association

8 February 2024
SCHOOL: Oschatz
Grammar School CONTEXT: Support for biotechnology/bionics lessons through practical experiments
TOPIC: Bacterial identification 30

January 2024
SCHOOL: F+U Sachsen gGmbH, Chemnitz
TOPIC: PV92
CONTACT: Isabell Fischer

29 January 2024
SCHOOL: Oschatz
Grammar School CONTEXT: Supporting biotechnology/bionics lessons through practical experiments
TOPIC: Airborne bacteria

25 January 2024
TOPIC: Making nesting aids for children at the MitMachTreff

11 January 2024
CONTEXT: University information day

7 December 2023
EVENT: Nobel Prize lecture at the HSMW

25 October 2023
SCHOOL: Dr Wilhelm Andre Gymnasium, Chemnitz
TOPIC: PV92 – DNA gel electrophoresis
CONTACT: Jessika Pöttrich

4 October 2023
TOPIC: Restriction
digestion CONTACT: Sabine Ederer

19 September 2023
SCHOOL: Dr Wilhelm Andre Gymnasium, Chemnitz
TOPIC: PV92 – DNA extraction
CONTACT: Jessika Pöttrich

23 June 2023
EVENT: Night of Science

20 April 2023
EVENT: Learning Camp
TOPIC: Can artificial intelligence help us understand life?

1 April 2023
EVENT: University Information Day

15 March 2023
EVENT: Learning Camp organised by Markneukirchen and Rodewisch
grammar schools TOPIC: Biorhythms – Not for esotericists, but for geneticists

13 March 2023
SETTING: Teacher training in Baden-Württemberg
TOPIC: Biotechnology: A subject, a degree course, a political issue

24 February 2023
SETTING: Teacher training in Hesse
TOPIC: Genetic scissors and nanopores in upper secondary education

8 February 2023
CONTEXT: Deckerberg e.V. Art & Culture
TOPIC: Brilliant H₂: An energy source even greener than green – is that possible?

6 February 2023
SCHOOL: Oschatz
Grammar School CONTEXT: Supporting biotechnology/bionics lessons through practical experiments
TOPIC: Bacterial identification

30 January 2023
SCHOOL: Oschatz
Grammar School CONTEXT: Supporting biotechnology/bionics lessons through practical experiments
TOPIC: Airborne germs

12 January 2023
CONTEXT: University information day

20 December 2022
SCHOOL: Hartha Grammar School, 11 pupils, 1 teacher
TOPIC: PV92
CONTACT: Ms Höhme

8 December 2022
SETTING: Nobel Prize lecture
TOPIC: Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans

30 November 2022
SETTING: Visit to the Wilhelm-André Gymnasium
TOPIC: Three genes that changed (or are changing) the world

24 November 2022
SETTING: Science Day at the BSZ for Agricultural Economics and Nutrition
TOPIC: Our fate does not depend on the stars, but on our actions

21 November 2022
SETTING: Humpi’s Monday Forum
TOPIC: Out of the lab, into real life. How new techniques make our genetic material transparent and tangible

19 November 2022
SETTING: 1st Bee Health Symposium – The bee colony and its environment
OUR TOPIC: Experimental approaches to pollen analysis & gene marker-assisted bee breeding

13 October 2022
SETTING: Teacher training in Baden-Württemberg
TOPIC: Gene scissors and nanopores in upper secondary education

23 August 2022
SETTING: Cusanuswerk
Summer School TOPIC: CRISPRevolution – New Dimensions in Genetic Engineering

13 July 2022
CONTEXT: Visit by pre-schoolers from the ‘Am Zschopautal’ nursery in Mittweida, Lauenhain district
OUR TOPIC: The Hidden World – Experiments for Little Explorers

8 July 2022
SETTING: Visit by pre-schoolers from the Taka-Tuka-Land nursery in Frankenberg OUR TOPIC: The Hidden World – Experiments for Little Explorers

1 July 2022
EVENT: Night of Science
OUR TOPIC: A Day in the Life of a Student – A Story
of Chemistry and Biotechnology LECTURE: The Fascination of Biotechnology

23 June 2022
SETTING: Visit by Year 10 pupils to the HSMW
OUR TOPIC: Experiencing biotechnology
SCHOOL: Year 10 at the G. E. Lessing Gymnasium

21 June 2022
EVENT: Visit by pre-schoolers from the Auenzwerge nursery in Mittweida
OUR TOPIC: The Hidden World – Experiments for Little Explorers

17 May 2022
ORGANISER: Deckerberg e. V.
OUR TOPIC: Heredity and the environment

27 April 2022
ORGANISER: NABU Federal Expert Committee on Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
OUR TOPIC: New genetic engineering

9 April 2022
ORGANISER: University Information Day

31 March 2022
ORGANISER: Learning camp organised by the Goethe-Gymnasium Auerbach in Grünheide
Topic: Biohydrogen: An energy source with a future?

13 January 2022
SETTING: University Information Day

9 December 2021
EVENT: Nobel Prize Lecture

24 November 2021
EVENT: University Guidance Day SCHOOL: Altroßthal Vocational Centre for Agriculture and Food
OUR TOPIC: The Fascination of Biotechnology – Insights and Outlook
CONTACT: R. Laspe

23 November 2021
SETTING: 13th Science Day at the ‘Ernst Lößnitzer’ Vocational Training Centre for Hospitality, Dresden
OUR TOPIC: The Energy Transition with Biohydrogen – Could This Be the Solution?
CONTACT: Sabine Ederer

11 November 2021
SETTING: Saxony5 Science Slam 2021
TOPIC: What pollen grains reveal to us

4 November 2021
EVENT: Secondary Level II teacher training at Auerbach Grammar School
OUR TOPIC: Reading, writing and editing genes

21 October 2021
SCHOOL VISIT: ‘Ernst Lößnitzer’ Vocational Training Centre for the Hospitality Industry, Dresden
OUR TOPIC: Biotechnology: A subject, a degree course, a political issue

29 June 2021
TOPIC: Three Billion Years of Sex – A Reason to Celebrate
FRAMEWORK: Learning camp organised by the Goethe Gymnasium Auerbach in Grünheide

19 May 2021
SETTING: Lecture
series OUR TOPIC: “Biology”

21 April 2021
SETTING: University Guidance Day
SCHOOL: BSZ for Agricultural Economics and Nutrition, Altroßthal
OUR TOPIC: Biotechnology – A subject, a degree course, a political issue
CONTACT: R. Laspe

17 April 2021
EVENT: University Information Day

31 March 2021
SETTING: 13th Science Day at the “Ernst Lößnitzer” Vocational Training Centre for Hospitality, Dresden
OUR TOPIC: Courage is at the beginning of action, happiness at the end
CONTACT: Sabine Ederer

15 March 2021
SETTING: National Biotechnology Networking Conference for biotechnology-focused grammar schools
OUR TOPIC: The CRISPR/Cas gene scissors

14 January 2021
CONTEXT: University Information Day

11 October 2020
SETTING: KinderLABOR at the Chemnitz
Industrial Museum OUR TOPIC: Is there life on Mars?

4 April 2020
SETTING: University Information Day
OUR TOPIC: The Fascination of Biotechnology

5 February 2020
SCHOOL: J.-A.-Stöckhardt Grammar School, Chemnitz, 6 pupils, 1 teacher, Year 11
TOPIC: PV92
CONTACT: Ms Fischer

31 January 2020
SCHOOL: BSZ Schneeberg
TOPIC: Fibroblast
staining CONTACT: Mr Herr 27

January 2020
SCHOOL: Hartha Grammar School, 12 pupils, 1 teacher
TOPIC: PV92
CONTACT: Ms Höhme

16 January 2020
SCHOOL: Mittweida Municipal Grammar School, 15 pupils, 1 teacher
TOPIC: PV92
CONTACT: Ms Fröhlich

9 January 2020
CONTEXT: University Information Day
OUR TOPIC: The Fascination of Biotechnology