This year, we had three internal and three external Bachelor candidates working for their undergraduate projects, and all of them finished successfully (though some of them submitted a little later).
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Tonight, we had the last joint Christmas party of the Moerschis and Goycoos.
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Today, Anna Niehues and Jasper Wattjes, both from Bruno Moerschbacher’s group, and Stefan Hoffmann from the ex-Goycoolea group, became Dr. Anna Niehues, Dr. Japser Wattjes, and Dr. Stefan Hoffmann.
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„Our“ start-up and cooperation partner Bex-Biotec GmbH & Co. KG - founded earlier this year by our ex-PhD candidate and now CEO Dr. Rebecca Melcher – has successfully attracted funding from BMBF in the framework of its „KMU Innovativ“ programme.
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Today, a paper from a team around Prof. Trang Si Trung from Nha Trang University in Vietnam, in which they describe the solubilisation of chitosan using gaseous HCl, converting it into chitosan hydrochloride, appeared in the „International Journal of Biological Macromolecules“. Chitosan polymers are insoluble in water unless it is slightly acidified, whereas chitosan salts are readily soluble.
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On his tour through Germany, Prof. Siva Kumar, former Indian Speaker of our Indo-German International Research Training Group „Molecular and Cellular Glyco-Sciences - MCGS“ and currently Head of the International Office of the University of Hyderabad - UoH, visited our University to negotiate an extension of the Memorandum of Understanding between our universities.
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After four months supported by the Short-Term Research Grants program of DAAD, Dr. Natalia Lorena Calvo from the group of Prof. Maria Celina Lamas in Rosario returns today to her native Argentina.
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Already about a month ago, “our” first start-up biotech company Evorion Biotechnologies GmbH headed by Hans Kleine-Brüggeney, Robert Weingarten and Dr. Sebastian Bühren, was granted a two-million Euro project in the framework of the program “KMU-innovativ: Biotechnologie - BioChance” of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF.
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Today, Zhanru Shao’s paper on the first chitin deacetylases identified in diatom microalgae was accepted for publication in the highly reputed journal “New Phytologist”.
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Today, Franziska Schulze Bockeloh successfully defended her MSc thesis on developing on-chip immunostaining for the single-cell serial analysis of cancer stem cells, supported by Bruno Moerschbacher and the second referee, Prof. Burkhard Greve from the Klinik für Strahlentherapie – Radioonkologie of our Medical Faculty.
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It is already three years ago that we organized ICCC 13 - 12 EUCHIS, the last large International Chitin and Chitosan Conference, jointly with the Meeting of the European Chitin Society, in Münster. ICCC is held every three years, rotating between Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Ibero-America (the next one will be in 2021 in Mexico). Bruno Moerschbacher, currently president of EUCHIS, together with Stefan Cord-Landwehr, Philipp Lemke, Lea Hembach and Eva Regel were our strong team in Osaka.
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Earlier this month, Elisabeth Seiband joined us as our new research technician in the funCHI project, and today, she - and our Bachis of this year - invited us for cookies and sparkling wine.
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Today, Prof. Dr. Gurvan Michel from the CNRS research centre on marine biology, the famous “Station Biologique de Roscoff” in Brittany, France, arrived in our lab for a one year sabbatical stay.
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Today, a paper co-authored by Stefan Hoffmann from the ex-Goycoolea-group in collaboration with Christian Gorzelanny from the Department of Dermatology of Heidelberg University and many others on the involvement of erythrocytes in microvascular occlusion has been accepted for publication in the journal Scientific Reports.
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Just a few days short of a full year after initial submission, Franziska Bußwinkel’s paper on the heterologous expression of a chitinase gene from the biocontrol fungus Trichoderma virens in the yeast Pichia pastoris and on the detailed characterization of the recombinant enzyme has finally been accepted for publication in the “International Journal of Biological Macromolecules”.
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Today, Tobias Weikert successfully defended his PhD thesis with a public presentation and discussion of his research results followed by a closed examination with his doctoral committee consisting of the professors Bruno Moerschbacher, Susanne Fetzner from the Institute for Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, and Francisco Goycoolea from Leeds University.
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