Board meeting of Werner Siemens Foundation
Our group welcomed the Siemens Family Advisory Board and the Foundation Board of the Werner Siemens Foundation to Jena this summer. The...
Third round of the WSS colloquium
On Friday, 19th June, we hosted the third colloquium of the Werner Siemens Foundation (WSS) together with the Microbiome Sciences group of...
We welcome our new lab member Lei Zhong
Lei Zhong joined our group in June 2026 as a postdoctoral fellow. He will work on the isolation of ancient and bioactive natural products....
We welcome our new lab member Sarah Lena Maaß
Sarah Lena Maaß joined our group in May 2026 as an internship student. She works with Alex on the qPCR detection of host strain...
Congratulations to Leibniz Drug of the Year 2026
The Leibniz Drug of the Year 2026 is the peptide pyrofactin. The selection took place at the Leibniz Conference on Bioactive Compounds...
Hari won Microverse Early Career Scientist Award
We congratulate our former colleague Dr. Harikumar Suma for being awarded the second prize of the Microverse Early Career Scientist Award...
Congratulations to medac Research Award 2025
We are happy to congratulate the winners of the medac Research Award 2025 for their outstanding interdisciplinary collaboration, which has...
We welcome our new lab member Érica Nardy
Érica Santos Nardy joined our group in April 2026 as a master student. She works with Rosa on antimicrobial peptides. Find out more at...
We welcome our new lab member Patricia Hübel
Patricia Hübel joined our group in April 2026 as a guest PhD. Her main supervisor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena is Prof. Dr....
Compact news from the past few months
If you are interested in reading a compact overview of our research activities in the past few months you can upload the following pdf file:
Congrats to Markus for successful PhD defence!
Congratulations to Markus Günther for successfully defending his PhD thesis on “Diversity, Function, and Biosynthesis of Polyketides in...
Thorben continues as student research assistant
Besides genetic and molecular biological work, Thorben Kirbach will support the paleobiotech project as a student research assistant....