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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....

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Congratulations to Markus Günther for successfully defending his PhD thesis on “Diversity, Function, and Biosynthesis of Polyketides in...

Besides genetic and molecular biological work, Thorben Kirbach will support the paleobiotech project as a student research assistant.​...

Zhiyong Yin joined our group in March 2026 as a postdoctoral fellow. He will work on the analysis of modifications of natural products....

Martin, Judith, Sabrina, Alex, and Pierre visited the 38th Irsee Natural Product Symposium at Irsee Monastery. At the event, co-organized...

The artwork for our recent publication titled "Microbial DL-Peptidases Enable Predator Defense and Facilitate Structure Elucidation of...

We congratulate all authors of our latest paper, which is published under the title “Growth Promotion of Milk-Associated Candida...