Three cows standing on a field, two facing the camera. The front one is of a reddish brown, the other two are black and white.
Universität Hohenheim / Max Kovalenko
TUMCS, BGP

Study reveals new risks to animal health and food safety Microplastics disrupt gut microbiome and fermentation in farm animals

Microplastics, tiny plastic particles pervasive in agricultural environments, interact with and disrupt the microbial ecosystem in the rumen – the first stomach chamber of cattle, reveals an international study.

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Four people, a woman and three men, in front of the board in lecture hall U7a, presenting their cerificates and trophys
Jan Winter/TUM
Doctoral Candidates, TIM, TUMCS

First Doctoral Awards for all three scientific disciplines at TUMCS TUMCS Supervisory award for Prof. Doblinger

On November 13th, 2025, the first “TUMCS Doctoral Award” event took place. 32 TUMCS doctoral candidates from all disciplines presented their posters in the foyer of Uferstraße 53. The doctoral candidates were available to answer questions and engage…

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Two women and two man standing in a group, one of the women is presenting a glass trophy.
Sparkassenverband Bayern
Students, TIM, STUD, TUMCS

‘Financing the Future’: TUMCS student honoured for lively integration of research and practice Sparkassen award for Master's student Cristina Jakob

This week, the der Sparkassenverband Bayern in Munich honoured young academics with the 2025 Science Award of the Bavarian Sparkassen. One prize went to Cristina Jakob from TUM Campus Straubing (TUMCS) for the best master's thesis, supervised by…

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Five people, two women and three men, sitting in front of a blue background at a podium discussion. One of the men, Prof. Grimm, is holding a microphone in is hand and is speaking.
Margarita Milidakis/BIOCOM
TUMCS, BIT

Prof. Grimm discusses at the BioKI Conference in Berlin How AI is Accelerating the Biological Revolution

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining importance in the bioeconomy and is transforming both research and industrial applications. How AI can accelerate future biotechnological processes and open entirely new possibilities in molecule…

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Students, TUMCS

Graduates bid farewell to TUM Campus Straubing A big day for young researchers

Last week, TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability (TUMCS) bid farewell to around 180 graduates of the academic year with a festive ceremony in the Magnobonus-Markmiller Hall. In a festive setting, representatives from the…

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A circular, ground level stage in a room, with the audience sitting around it. On stage, a moderator on the right of the picture is facing three women and one man, Volker Sieber, on the left side of the frame. Above the stage is a cube with four live screens, showing a medium close-up of the speakering participant..
Falling Walls Foundation
TUMCS

Professor Volker Sieber Discusses the Future of Biomanufacturing at the Falling Walls Summit 2025

At this year’s Falling Walls Summit in Berlin, Professor Volker Sieber from the Technical University of Munich took part in a plenary roundtable titled “Biomanufacturing: Scaling the Sustainable Bioeconomy.”

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The three women and two men of the podium discussion
Jan Winter/TUM
TUMCS

5th Sustainability Talk at TUM Campus: How Consumers Can Reduce Food Waste Always Picking the Freshest Products?

The introduction to the topic of food waste could hardly have been more striking: “The banana travels around the world only to rot in a schoolchild’s gym bag,” quoted Prof. Dr. Alexander Hübner from TUM Campus Straubing, referring to Der Postillon, a…

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A group of students in front of a wall with a lot of colorful skis.
Barbara Roth/TUM
Students, TUMCS

TUMCS students gain insight into ski production

On 20 October, Völkl Sports GmbH in Straubing-Sand gave a group of students from the TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability an exclusive insight into its modern ski factory with production facilities in Germany as part of a factory…

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