News 2023

Dr. Stefan Cord-Landwehr, supported by Dr. Margareta Hellmann, has again come up with a new method for chitosan analysis which has just been accepted for publication in the renowned journal Carbohydrate Polymers.
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As in other fields, too, the Corona pandemic led to a gap in the three regular international chitin and chitosan conferences, EUCHIS, SIAQ, and APCCS.
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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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Today, Carlos Girão’s first paper containing results from his sandwich doctoral year with us in Münster has been accepted for publication in the journal Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology.
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After almost 30 years, today was Bruno’s last day as a regular professor at the university of Münster, but he was appointed senior professor for one more year.
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“Start-up Contacts” is organized by the “Venture Club Münster”, a large local student-initiative for start-ups and innovation organizing this annual fair since 2023 under the motto “Vision Becomes Venture”.
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The “MS-Wissenschaft” is a ormer freight ship turned into an exhibition ship for science, particularly addressing the pupils and non-expert interested visitors.
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This week, Prof. Moerschbacher was invited again to give a general lecture on “Chitins and Chitosans – Analysis and Applications” at the famous European Glycosciences Summer School which was organized this year in Groningen, the Netherlands.
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From May 12-14, Margareta Hellmann visited the first "INSECTSplus" conference, jointly organized by the German Institute of Food Technologies (DIL) and the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB). 
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Today, Margareta “Maggi” Hellmann finalized her doctoral voyage with presenting it in three minutes to her guests and those of her twelve fellow doctoral candidates. Not an easy task given that her thesis contained nine manuscripts on almost 400 pages.
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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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Today, Sirikan ‘Gundum’ Pongnan, a doctoral candidate from the Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC) in Pa Yup Nai, Thailand, presented her project for her sandwich year in our research group.
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Today, a paper by Prof. Jogi Madhuprakash from the University of Hyderabad, to which Dr. Stefan Cord-Landwehr from our group contributed his analytical expertise, has been accepted for publication in the renowned journal “Carbohydrate Polymers”.
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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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At the beginning of this week, this year’s annual retreat of the DFG Priority Programme on Chitin, Chitosan and Chito-Oligosaccharides and Their Interactions with Proteins of the Extracellular Matrix and Cellular Signaling – CodeX – was held in Münster.
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Today, another manuscript that has been really long in the making has been accepted for publication in the renowned International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.
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Today, another of the manuscripts in Margareta Hellmann’s doctoral thesis has been accepted for publication in the renowned journal Frontiers in Immunology.
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Today, Mounashree Student defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Ustilago maydis chitin deacetylases – A story of specificity and redundancy” supported by her ‘Doktorvater’ Bruno Moerschbacher and the two other members of her doctoral committee, Prof. Volha Shapaval from Norway and Prof. Jenny Lodge from the US. Prof.
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Today, the first paper originating from Katharina Ost’s doctoral project on engineering the fungus Aspergillus niger for optimized protein production has been accepted for publication in the renowned journal The Cell Surface.
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And again! Yet another of Margareta Hellmann’s manuscripts has been accepted for publication today, in the journal SoftwareX.
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Today, another of the manuscripts which are part of Margareta Hellmann’s doctoral thesis has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.
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Tim Zemlicka interviewed the AgriBluBio team for the December issue of “Wissen – Leben”, the monthly Newsletter of the University of Münster.
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This being the last Christmas season in which Bruno Moerschbacher is full professor (“ordentlicher Professor” in German – Can you believe it? Have you ever seen his office?), this year has seen our last full Christmas party.
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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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Last week, Dr. Stefan Cord-Landwehr and Margareta Hellmann participated in the 20th Annual International Conference on Polysaccharides and Glycoscience (ICPG) in Prague, Czech Republic.
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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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Today, Dr. Carolin Richter’s manuscript on the biotechnological optimisation of bioactive chitosans for sustainable agriculture was finally accepted in the highly reputed journal Carbohydrate Polymers.
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Today, the doctoral candidates of the Structured Doctoral Programme BioSciences of the Faculty of Biology at our University of Münster held their third annual Poster Symposium.
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Today, the Code𝛘 Mercator fellow Prof. Francisco Goycoolea from the University of Murcia in Spain and Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher visited Prof. Hans Merzendorfer and his team at the University of Siegen, to discuss a joint research project they are planning in collaboration with Dr. Martina Delbianco from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam.
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Today, the review on chitin deacetylases written by Sandra Lindner, Margareta Hellmann, and Dr. Martin Bonin supported by Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher has been accepted for publication in the highly renowned journal Carbohydrate Polymers.
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