News 2024

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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Today, Dr. Anne Vortkamp, Dr. Philipp Lemke, and Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher visited the Dutch daughter satellite event of the famous Helsinki Start-up Fair “Slush”, “the most founder-focused event on Earth” according to their website.
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Our doctoral candidate Katharina Eickelpasch visited the first Code𝛘 Summer School on “Light and Electron Microscopy” supervised by Dr. Luca Bertinetti from the Center for Molecular Bioengineering at TU Dresden.
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Today, Margareta Hellmann’s paper describing her surprising observation of an unexpectedly regular distribution of acetyl groups in typical commercial chitosans was accepted for publication in the renowned journal “Nature Communications”.
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Today, Dr. Anne Vortkamp, supported by Dr. Philipp Lemke, won the pitch contest of the REACH - EUREGIO Start-up Center  of our University.
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Today, Bruno Moerschbacher was awarded the Best Teacher Award “Goldener Hans”.
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Today, the second of our Codeχ Mercator fellows, Prof. Zimmer from the US, gave a fascinating seminar on transmembrane polysaccharide synthases.
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Today, we re-started the monthly webinar series on structure-function relationships of chitosans organized by our DFG-funded Priority Program Codeχ on Chito-Protein Interactions.
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Today, we were informed that the proposal of Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher for a post-doctoral fellowship from the internationalization fund of our university for Dr. Laís Moreira Granato from the Universidade Federal de Vicosa in Brazil has been successful.
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This evening, Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher was invited by the Heimatverein Senden e.V. to give a presentation about our research and its implications in the framework of the seminar series “Wissenschaft im Dialog”.
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Today, one of Margareta Hellmann’s manuscripts has finally been accepted for publication in the renowned journal “Scientific Reports”.
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Today, the PIs, post-doctoral and doctoral researchers of the research projects funded by the German Research Foundation DFG in the framework of its Priority Program “Codeχ [BM1] – The Code of Chito-Protein Interactions” met in Siegen for the first time.
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Today, Martin Bonin’s second central paper resulting from his doctoral project with us has been published in the renowned journal PLOS Biology.
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