News 2022

Like every year, Nikolaus visited us and left copies of himself for everyone. Again, the size of our group has declined, as planned. But we are still strong!
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While Corona certainly is not yet a thing of the past, it would seem that we have started to learn to live with it. What a blessing that molecular biology and nanobiotechnology have joined forces to create the mRNA vaccines in almost no time 
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Today, the first paper of our Norwegian partners in the LignoLIPP project has been accepted for publication in the journal “Carbohydrate Polymers”, with our post-doctoral researcher Dr. Stefan Cord-Landwehr as a co-author.
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Today, the first paper of Rita Weyer’s doctoral thesis was accepted for publication in the journal “Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology”.
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Today, the main paper of the doctoral theses of Dr. Sruthi Sreekumar, Dr. Jasper Wattjes, and Dr. Anna Niehues, who share first-authorship, also containing some essential data from the doctoral thesis of Dr. Tamara Mengoni, has finally appeared in the journal “Nature Communications"
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Today, our doctoral candidate Mounashree’s first first-author paper has been accepted for publication in the renowned journal “Carbohydrate Polymers”, with our postdoctoral researcher Dr. Stefan Cord-Landwehr as the senior author.
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Today, Judith Ryll successfully defended her Master thesis on a comparative analysis of transcriptomic data from different plant species treated with different, well-defined chitosans, supported by Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher, and by Prof. Shuqing Xu from the Institute of Evolution and Biodiversity.
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Today, Anika Jürß successfully defended her Master thesis on the use of chitosan to stabilize emulsions of essential oils in water which may be used as plant protectants, making use of a potentially synergistic action of plant strengthening chitosans and antimicrobially acting essential oils.
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Today, Sonja Raetz successfully defended her Master thesis on the use of enzymatically produced chitosans for plant protection, supported by Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher, and by Prof. Jochen Schmid from the Institute for Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology.
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Today saw the first Poster Symposium of our Structured Doctoral Programme BioSciences, fully organised by the doctoral candidates themselves, for themselves, supported by Dr.Uschi Windmüller, the Scientific Coordinator of the programme who has lots of experience in organising such events.
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Today, Dr.Vânia Horta de Passo has joined our group as a post-doctoral researcher, to complement our expertise with her experience in molecular plant pathology and genetics.
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Today, Philipp invited the whole group to his farewell party in the inner courtyard of the institute. Philipp has been one of our “oldest” group members, he joined our lab for the first time during his Master studies in 2013! .
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Finally, our first “post”-Corona Mini-Symposium took place at the end of July in Landhaus Rothenberge, the splendid seminar house of our university just about 40 km North of Münster.
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Today, the latest Newsletter of the European Chitin Society EUCHIS was published. It contains an ‘opinion paper’ from our group which is based on the “Studienarbeit” of our 2020 undergraduates Carolin Potthoff, Lasse Middendorf, and Jonas Sobierey.
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Today, another paper with Max Linhorst as a co-author was accepted for publication in the journal ChemElectroChem.
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Today, the European Society of Applied Biocatalysis ESAB together with the European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry SusChem organised by DECHEMA (Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie e.V.) held its joint webinar, which typically airs each last Friday of the month, with four half-hour presentations.
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Today, Denis Qoray successfully defended his Master thesis which he performed in the framework of the Indo-German BioeconomyInternational project Bio-Fun, which is led by our bioinformatician post-doctoral researcher Dr. Ratna Singh and which is financially supported by BMBF.
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Today, the partners of the Norwegian-German “Bioeconomy in the North” project LignoLIPP, which on the German side is financially supported by BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), met online to report on the progress of the work, plan the final months of the project, and start discussing perspectives for a follow-up project.
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Our postdoctoral researcher Dr. Stefan Cord-Landwehr and our doctoral student Mounashree attended the 18th International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries from June 1st to June 3rd in the beautiful Belgium city of Brügge.
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After a series of online seminars and conferences over the last two years, our students and PhD candidates were happy to attend an event in person again!
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This year’s Hannover Messe, the world’s leading industrial fair, was organised under the motto “Let’s Create the Industry of Tomorrow”. The Kompetenznetzwerk Umweltwirtschaft NRW (KNUW) had invited us to present our existing and planned start-ups at their booth, along with eight other start-ups from North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Today, a paper of our doctoral alumnus André Wendt dos Santos together with our current post-doctoral researcher Ratna Singh has been accepted for publication in the journal “Frontiers in Plant Sciences”, in a Special Issue on Forest Tree Proteomics.
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Today, Prof. Till Ischebeck, successor in spe of Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher, gave his official inaugural lecture as a Professor of Plant Biotechnology.
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The consortium of the European research project “REDWine - Increasing microalgae biomass feedstock by valorizing wine gaseous” invited the members of its International Scientific Advisory Board, including Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher, to its 12-month meeting this week.
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Today, Katharina Eickelpasch successfully defended her Master thesis, supported by Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher and Dr. Shane O'Connell from the Irish company Brandon Bioscience
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This week saw the Annual Meeting of Plant Research funded by BMBF (the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) to which Dr. Ratna Singh and her team working on the Bio-Fun project were invited.
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Today, we were informed that our proposal for a new “Schwerpunktprogramm” (Priority Program) on chitin and chitosans has been accepted by the German Research Council, DFG.
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Today, the manuscript or our postdoctoral researcher Dr. Philipp Lemke and his former Master student Lena Jünemann has been accepted for publication in a Special Issue on “Synthetic and Natural Antifungals – Desirable and Hazardous Effects” of the “International Journal of Molecular Sciences”.
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Today, we received the formal approval letter for a short, but exciting new project which we will pursue in collaboration with ‘our’ biotech start-up Bex-biotec.
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This summer has been exceedingly hot in Paraná, one of the Southern states in Brazil. Temperatures passed the mark of 40°C, and much of the crop in this most important agricultural area of Brazil dried up in the fields. This is the dramatic background to today’s book presentation on “Aminoácidos, extratos de algas, extratos vegetais e substȃncias húmicas como: Biofertilizantes” (“Amino Acids, Algal Extracts, Plant Extracts, and Humic Substances as: Biostimulants”) to the Brazilian public.
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Today, Philipp Schröder’s and Dr. Stefan Cord-Landwehr’s paper on an improved method for the quantification of chitosan was accepted for publication in the high-ranking journal Carbohydrate Polymers.
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