2024

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! 

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

Bioprocess Engineering

Biotechnology in Action

Introduction to Biotechnology Lab

Advanced Biotechnology Lab 

Open position (PhD student, 65%) We have an open PhD position in the field of biocatalysis in co-operation with an industrial company. 

Unsolicited applications for academic positions are always welcome.

For Bachelor thesis, please contact by email.

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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

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