Codeχ webinars re-started: Prof. Dr. Francisco Goycoolea from Murcia, Spain, talked about “Decoding chitosans’ mucosal, gene delivery, and antimicrobial activities”
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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Fellowship granted: Dr. Laís Granato from Brazil won a three-months stay-at-home fellowship for a joint project on using chitosans to combat bacterial diseases of plants
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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Outreach presentation: “Chitosans – snake oils of the 21st century?”
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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December 6, 2023: Nikolaus visited us!
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Summer Party of Schlossplatz 8: Super Heroes on the move
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17th Summer Course Glycosciences, Wageningen, the Netherlands
farewell party for Martin Bonin and Christin Meier
Today, after the successful defence of his doctoral thesis, Martin Bonin invited the whole group to his farewell party, jointly with Christin Meier who has worked with us as an excellent and steadily increasingly precious research technician.
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Welcome Carlos Alberto Chaves Girao Neto, our latest sandwich doctoral candidate from Brazil
Today, Carlos Girao, a doctoral researcher in Chemical Engineering supervised by Prof. Dr. Maria Valderez Ponte Rocha from the Chemical Engineering Department of the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil, has joined our group for a six months sandwich research stay.
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Composition and charge compensation in chitosan/gum arabic complex coacervates in dependence on pH and salt concentration
Today, Philipp Schröder’s second publication in collaboration with Dr. Stefan Cord-Landwehr has been published in the renowned journal Biomacromolecules.
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Paper accepted: Chitosan as enabling polymeric binder material for silicon-graphite based anodes in lithium ion batteries
Today, the third paper [B1] on using chitosans as a material in ‘green’ batteries in which our doctoral candidate Max Linhorst was involved has been accepted for publication in the journal Energy Technology.
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December 6, 2022: Nikolaus said “danke” again
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December 1, 2022: Finally, another Christmas party!
Gian Luca Marongiu successfully defended his Master thesis
Today, Gian Luca Marongiu successfully defended his Master thesis on a detailed characterisation of human chitinolytic enzymes, supported by Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher, and by Prof. Dirk Prüfer from our institute.
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Farewell-party of Dr. Philipp Lemke
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Mini-Symposium in Landhaus Rothenberge
June 8, 2022: Naike Schwenner successfully defended her Master thesis: “Bioactivity of N-succinylated chitosans and in vitro and in silico studies of antifungal compounds”
Today, Naike Schwenner successfully defended her Master thesis which she had performed in the framework of the BMBF-funded Indo-German Bioeconomy International project Bio-Fun
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