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We congratulate all authors of our latest paper, which is published under the title “Syringotoxin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Required for...

We congratulate all authors of our latest paper, which is published under the title “Reconstruction of a 30,000-Year-Old Biosynthetic Gene...

We congratulate all authors of our latest paper, which is published under the title “Nanotubes enable intercellular communication in...

Our group welcomed the Siemens Family Advisory Board and the Foundation Board of the Werner Siemens Foundation to Jena this summer. The...

On Friday, 19th June, we hosted the third colloquium of the Werner Siemens Foundation (WSS) together with the Microbiome Sciences group of...

Lei Zhong joined our group in June 2026 as a postdoctoral fellow. He will work on the isolation of ancient and bioactive natural products....

Sarah Lena Maaß joined our group in May 2026 as an internship student. She works with Alex on the qPCR detection of host strain...

The Leibniz Drug of the Year 2026 is the peptide pyrofactin. The selection took place at the Leibniz Conference on Bioactive Compounds...

We congratulate our former colleague Dr. Harikumar Suma for being awarded the second prize of the Microverse Early Career Scientist Award...

We are happy to congratulate the winners of the medac Research Award 2025 for their outstanding interdisciplinary collaboration, which has...

Érica Santos Nardy joined our group in April 2026 as a master student. She works with Rosa on antimicrobial peptides. Find out more at...

Patricia Hübel joined our group in April 2026 as a guest PhD. Her main supervisor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena is Prof. Dr....