News 2023

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A strong appearance: one plenary lecture, four oral and one poster presentation on past and present work of our group at ICCC / SIAQ.

We were a strong and very visible delegation, six strong all told, at this year’s ICCC / SIAQ in Hermosillo in the North of Mexico. After the inaugural lecture given by Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher, two post-doctoral researchers from our group, Dr. Stefan Cord-Landwehr and Dr. Margareta Hellmann, gave oral presentations in the same session.
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Congratulations! Katharina Eickelpasch received the First Young Researcher Lecture Price and Sirikan Pongnan the First Poster Price at ICCC / SIAQ.

As important as talks are posters at any scientific conference. The huge advantage of poster over oral presentations is that the people who performed the work are actually presenting it themselves – while oral presentations are all too often given by the professors who supervised, but did not carry out the work and, thus, are often ignorant of the details.
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16th ICCC / 9th SIAQ in Hermosillo, Mexico: Second stop on Bruno Moerschbacher’s fare-well tour to international chitin & chitosan conferences.

After the Asia-Pacific Chitin and Chitosan Symposium APCCS in Taiwan just two months ago, last month’s International Conference on Chitin and Chitosan ICCC, co-organized with the conference of the Iberoamerican Chitosan Society SIAQ, in Mexico was the second important conference for our research topic this year.
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Paper accepted: Chitosan production methods influence receptor-mediated immune responses but not target-mediated antimicrobial bioactivities

Today, Dr. Margareta Hellmann’s and Katharina Eickelpasch’s paper has been accepted for publication in the renowned journal Carbohydrate Polymers. Together with Dr. Carolin Richter, who also serves as senior and corresponding author for the paper, they had selected pairs of chitosans with similar degrees of polymerization and fractions of acetylation, but different patterns of acetylation, random or regular.
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Keynote lecture: Bruno Moerschbacher talked about “Controlling the Acetylation Patterns of Chitosans” at the 14th APCCS in Taipei, Taiwan

There are three regular international meetings of the chitin and chitosan scientific community: the biannual meetings of the European Chitin Society EUCHIS and of the Ibero-American Chitin and Chitosan Society SIAQ, as well as the Asia-Pacific Chitin and Chitosan Symposium APCCS organized by East- and South-East-Asian societies in turn.
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A new Dr. rer. nat.: Mounashree Student took the solemn oath and received her doctoral certificate and hat

Today, after a long time, another young researcher from our group received her doctoral degree: along with 15 other young Doctors, Mounashree Student took the oath, pledging to “strive at all times to preserve the doctoral title from every blemish, prove herself worthy of this title in all future academic endeavours, and to always seek and uphold academic truth to the best of her knowledge and belief”.
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Doctoral baptism: Margareta Hellmann successfully defended her doctoral thesis

Today, Margareta Hellmann successfully defended her doctoral thesis on the “Influence of cell wall modification by chitin deacetylases in Cryptococcus neoformans on the human immune response” in front of her doctoral committee, Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher, PD Christian Gorzelanny from the Institute of Dermatology and Venerology of the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, and Prof. Alexander Weber from the Institute of Immunology at the University of Tübingen.
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Last visit of Nikolaus? hopefully not!

It is amazing, but this morning, half a year before our group formally ends with the retirement of Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher, we again found almost 30 Nikoläuse in our small seminar room.
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They did it again: Dr. Anne Vortkamp and Dr. Philipp Lemke won two shared First Prizes and an Audience Award in pitch contests

Again, Anne and Philipp, the will-be founders of our start-up AgriBluBio, won a shared First Prize in the pitch contest of the REACH - EUREGIO Start-up Center of our University last week. Thus, tickets for next year’s participation at Enschede Slush’D are already secured. And yesterday, they also won a shared First Prize in the much tougher competition during the Sciene-to-Startup Convention in Münster, where they also won the Audience Award!
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