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...
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....
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....
Mai Anh Tran joined our group in April 2023 as a postdoc for a joint project with the Hellmich group. In this interdisciplinary collaboration, she studies the structure and function of non-ribosomal peptide synthetases and which role the biosynthesized product plays...
Our department and the Microbiome Sciences group of Christina Warinner at the MPI-EVA hosted the first colloquium within the funding period of the Werner-Siemens-Stiftung (WSS) under the theme “Microbiome functional evolution: past to present”. The...
Rupali Sathe joined our group in March 2023 as a postdoc for a joint project from the Excellence Cluster “Balance of the Microverse” to investigate metabolic and ecological interactions of bacteria that inhabit microplastic. Find out more at Rupali’s...
