Workshop on genome-resolved metagenomics

Workshop on genome-resolved metagenomics

Anan from our lab has jointly organised a workshop with Dr. Carl-Eric Wegner from the Küsel lab and Dr. Zander Human, both from the Friedrich Schiller University, about genome-resolved metagenomics. The event was part of the Collaborative Research Centre ChemBioSys,...
Congratulations to Bing for VAAM PhD thesis award

Congratulations to Bing for VAAM PhD thesis award

Shuaibing is the happy recipient of the annual PhD thesis prize from the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie – VAAM). With his thesis titled “Ecological Role of Natural Products in...
Inauguration of new robotics platform

Inauguration of new robotics platform

The newly established robotics facility was officially inaugurated at the Biotech Center of the Leibniz HKI. The highly modular platform is the answer to the urgent challenge of the intensifying antibiotics crisis. It enables the identification and development of...
Second place at Paradies Triathlon

Second place at Paradies Triathlon

Together with our HKI colleague Luzia Gyr, our team members Ina and Jasmin achieved second place of the female team at the Paradies Triathlon Jena. Congratulations for these great efforts at temperatures of 30 degrees Celsius! This time, almost 1000 people...
We welcome our new lab member Hannah

We welcome our new lab member Hannah

Hannah Mendler joined our group in June 2023 as a student research assistant. She has already performed a practical training at the Stallforth lab about a year ago. Now she will work on the analysis of antimicrobial peptides predicted from ancient metagenomic data.​...
Scientists “revive” Stone Age molecules

Scientists “revive” Stone Age molecules

Press release from Leibniz-HKI, Jena (see original post)!   Scientists “revive” Stone Age molecules In a highly transdisciplinary study, scientists are rebuilding microbial natural products up to 100,000 years old using dental calculus of humans and Neanderthals....