Jasmin and James went to two conferences in Tartu

Jasmin and James went to two conferences in Tartu

James and Jasmin together with our collaborators Alexander Hübner, Irina Velsko, and Maxime Borry from the MPI-EVA in Leipzig visited Estonia for two conferences which were held in Tartu:   The 5th meeting of the Standards, Precautions, Advances in Ancient...
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...
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....
We welcome our new lab member Mai

We welcome our new lab member Mai

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...