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
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
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
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...
Impressions from our joint group retreat
In March, just when the weather turned from rainy winter to sunny spring, it was time for a joint group retreat of both Pierre's Paleobiotechnology group and Christina Warinner's Microbiome Sciences group, located at the department of Archaeogenetics at the MPI-EVA in...
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
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
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
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...
We welcome our new lab member Ying
Just in the new year, Ying Huang joined the Stallforth lab! She completed her PhD in 2022 and joined our group now as a postdoc to work on projects in the framework of the FSU Jena Excellence Cluster "Balance of the Microverse". Find out more at Ying's profile page!
Congratulations to Bing for his successful PhD defence
In December 2022, Shuaibing Zhang very successfully defended his PhD thesis! During his beforehand preparations and study time, the PBT group members also prepared for this day: Bing's graduation hat was assembled as well as the unique PBT graduation trolley on top of...
Our new group website was launched
In December 2022, just before the new year, we launched our new website! From now on, you can find here all news and updates about the PBT team, our research, publications, outreach etc. Feel free to get in touch with us! Credits to NetProCreative for setting the...