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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Katrin Rosenthal
Assistant Professor of Biotechnology
School of Science
Constructor University Bremen gGmbH
Campus Ring 6 / 28759 Bremen / Germany
Campus Ring 6 / 28759 Bremen / Germany
Phone number
++49 (0)421 200 3144
Fax number
++49 (0)421 200 3249
Email Address
krosenthal@constructor.university
Office
Res. II, Room 79
Katrin Rosenthal (PI), Siranjeevi Balakrishnan (PhD student), Makram Fataeri (PhD student), Jan-Niklas Schwarz (PhD student), Martin Becker (PostDoc), Aarusi Yvas (Research Assistant), Daniela Josuttis (Lab technician)
Jaeyoun Lee (CBT bachelor student), Raphaiel Cancio (CBT bachelor student), Francisco Tello (CBT bachelor student), Artem Verminsky (CBT bachelor student), Madlena Rakhimzhanova (CBT bachelor student)
News
2025
April New project approved: The DFG-funded project for Liquid-phase design to enhance enzyme stability and productivity will start soon.
March The publication Windows of sustainable bioprocess operation: Towards merging environmental sustainability assessment and process operation at early-stage bioprocess development was published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology.
March Makram Fataeri starts his PhD thesis. Welcome and good luck!
February Jan-Niklas Schwarz has successfully defended his PhD proposal.
January The Book Chapter Cell-free protein synthesis for biocatalysis was published in Methods in Enzymology. Congratulations, to the first author Siranjeevi!
January We secured the 5th place of the Minicircle Race sponsored by the PlasmidFactory GmbH.
2024
December The publication The STRENDA Biocatalysis Guidelines for cataloguing metadata was published in Nature Catalysis.
October Martin Becker has joined the group as a PostDoc. Welcome, Martin!
October The publication Avoiding Replicates in Biocatalysis Experiments: Machine Learning for Enzyme Cascade Optimization was published in ChemCatChem.
October The publication Ethanol Production Using Zymomonas mobilis and In Situ Extraction in a Capillary Microreactor has been published in Micromachines.
September The BMWK-AiF-ZIM-funded project for the development of an enzymatic synthesis platform "cGAS-cGAMP" for 2'3'-cGAMP and functionalized derivatives has been approved.
September The publication Cell-free protein synthesis with technical additives – expanding the parameter space of in vitro gene expression was published in the special issue "Young investigators in natural products chemistry, biosynthesis, and enzymology" of the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry.
August Siranjeevi Balakrishnan has successfully defended his PhD proposal.
August The publication Biocatalytic Screening of the Oxidative Potential of Fungi Cultivated on Plant-Based Resources was published in AppliedChem.
May Jan-Niklas Schwarz starts his PhD thesis. Welcome and good luck!
April The publication Development of a multi-enzyme cascade for 2'3'-cGAMP synthesis from nucleosides was published in Catalysis Science & Technology. The Paper was highlighted on the backcover of the issue.
February The publication Fluent Integration of Laboratory Data into Biocatalytic Process Simulation Using EnzymeML, DWSIM, and Ontologies was accepted (https://doi.org/10.3390/pr12030597). Co-operation with TU Dortmund and University of Stuttgart within the framework of NFDI4Cat and COZYME (COST-Action CA21162).
2023
December DFG-funded project for Data-driven development of enzyme cascades has been approved.
November Siranjeevi Balakrishnan starts his PhD thesis. Welcome and good luck!
Research Interests
Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS)
Enzyme cascades
Kinetic and empirical reaction modelling
Development and optimization of biotransformation processes
Microfluidic systems
Sustainability analyses of bioprocesses
Intensification of bioprocesses
Teaching in Chemistry and Biotechnology
Bioprocess Engineering
Biotechnology in Action
Introduction to Biotechnology Lab
Advanced Biotechnology Lab
Research and Teaching Positions
Unsolicited applications for academic positions are always welcome.
For Bachelor thesis, please contact by email.
Selected Publications
Publications can be found at:
ORCiD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6176-6224
Google Scholar Katrin Rosenthal - Google Scholar
Social Media:
LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/katrin-rosenthal-07a46b240
Publications on Scopus
Other Professional Activities
Since 2024 Co-Speaker of “Zukunftsforum Biotechnologie”, DECHEMA e. V., Germany
Since 2023 Member of COST-Action CA21162 - Establishing a Pan-European Network on Computational Redesign of Enzymes (COZYME)
Since 2020 Member of “Zukunftsforum Biotechnologie”, DECHEMA e. V., Germany
Fellowships and Awards
2024 Teacher of the Year Award, School of Science, Constructor University, Bremen, Germany
2021 Best Poster Award, 13. European Congress of Chemical Engineering und 6. European Congress of Applied Biotechnology, Germany
2019 Max-Buchner Research Scholarship, DECHEMA e.V., Germany
2019 Best Poster Award, Trends in Enzymology and Biocatalysis, Rome, Italy
2018 Ulfert-Onken-Prize in Biotechnology, Germany
2011 - 2014 PhD Scholarship CLIB-Graduate Cluster, Cluster Industrial Biotechnology e.V., Germany