… In this nuanced analysis of homecoming, Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric
of the (Pan-)African family is produced among African hosts and Diasporan returnees and …

Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual,
revealing the paradox that violent experiences are often secreted away beyond easy …

In many European countries, the explicit discussion of race as a biological phenomenon
has long been avoided. This has not meant that race has become obsolete or irrelevant all …

Approximately 1.5 billion people worldwide are overweight or affected by obesity, and are at
risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and related metabolic and …

Moving images? We begin by invoking possibly the most influential text in the anthropology
of pilgrimage, Victor and Edith Turner’s Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture (1978). …

Trait-associated genetic variants affect complex phenotypes primarily via regulatory mechanisms
on the transcriptome. To investigate the genetics of gene expression, we performed cis…

Identifying the downstream effects of disease-associated SNPs is challenging. To help
overcome this problem, we performed expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) meta-analysis in …

… The workshop was organized by Katharina Schramm and generously sponsored by the ‘…
Thanks go to Michi Knecht for inviting Katharina Schramm to participate in a conference on ‘…

Disease incidences increase with age, but the molecular characteristics of ageing that lead
to increased disease susceptibility remain inadequately understood. Here we perform a …

While many disease-associated variants have been identified through genome-wide association
studies, their downstream molecular consequences remain unclear. To identify these …