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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 Microbial...

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....

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...

The first WSS colloquium takes place

The first WSS colloquium takes place

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 foundation has...

We welcome our new lab member Rupali

We welcome our new lab member Rupali

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 profile page!

First tagged release of bioinformatics pipeline

First tagged release of bioinformatics pipeline

Big day for the developers of the bioinformatics pipeline in the Stallforth lab: The nextflow pipeline nf-core/funcscan – developed since late 2021 – got its first tagged release! The pipeline will enable us (and others) to efficiently and reproducibly identify...

We welcome our new lab member Annett

We welcome our new lab member Annett

As additional support in our team, Annett Fischer joined the group! An engineer and physicist by background, Annett’s interests expand into the fields of communication and text handling. She is looking forward to new challenges and started as a team assistant.

Keanu Reeves – the molecule

Keanu Reeves – the molecule

Our latest paper in JACS got world wide media attention. The New York Times and the Washington Post each wrote a piece about our latest scientific findings. In addition, the publication with the title "Ecological Niche-Inspired Genome Mining Leads to the Discovery of...

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