Enzyme for biocatalysis uses solvent as a substrate

A team from Bochum has discovered a new reaction that makes it possible to break difficult bonds. The biocatalyst is also stable in solution.

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Utilising waste materials sustainably

A new joint project is converting waste water and biodiesel waste into recyclable materials.

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Study Award for a New Building Block in the Drug Toolbox

Simon Schröder has worked out how enzymes can be used to more easily form the desired bond between two nitrogen atoms.

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Bronze for Bochum antibiotics detector

Eight students took part in a global competition. They have developed a genetically modified bacterial cell that detects and eliminates antibiotics in water. The idea was awarded a prize.

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Soil bacteria as biocatalysts

Researchers have clarified the molecular structure of an enzyme class, enabling them to use bacteria to produce prodrugs.

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Keep those enzymes busy

“Multidisciplinary, high-tech, innovative and internationally-minded” is how a postdoc from Lithuania sees Ruhr University after a two month stay in Bochum. A joint research project exceeded all his expectations.

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Step by step to the end product through enzyme catalysis

Enzymes from microorganisms can produce valuable chemical substances. In a cascade, they can do that even if they need different environmental conditions.

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Funding for catalyst research

With a total of around 240,000 euros, the Mercator Research Center Ruhr is funding two cooperative projects between the RUB and its partners in the University Alliance Ruhr.

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• 2022 - Admission to the EU supported network COST Action CA21162 entitled „Establishing a Pan-European Network on Computational Redesign of Enzymes (COZYME)“
• 2022 - Approval of the MERCUR cooperation grant „ Combinatorial expression systems for complex genes“, together with TU Dortmund, Laboratory of Bioprocess Engineering; contact: Dirk Tischler
• 2022 - Approval of the project „BiodeCCodiNNg“ as EU supported doctoral network together with international partner universities and industries; contact: Dirk Tischler
• 2022 - Dirk Tischler presented a lecture at the Göttingen Microbiology Colloquium on “Actinobacteria, metabolic power and flexibility”
• 2022 - Our team was presenting at the BioCat22 in Hamburg. Congrats to Daniel Eggerichs for receiving one of the Poster Awards!
• 2022 - Anna C. Ngo has successfully defended her doctoral thesis
• 2022 - our iGEM Team 2022 is presented in the trade press
• 2021 - Approval of the project „CleanWater“ as a BMWi supported project together with IDS Miesbach GmbH and DIMATEC Analysentechnik GmbH; contact: Dirk Tischler
• 2021 - our first iGEM Team receives a gold medal for their project and is portrayed on TV
• 2021 - Approval of the project „EnzymPrint“ as a BMWi supported project together with Hirsch Engineering Solutions GmbH & Co. KG; contact: Dirk Tischler
• 2020 - Antje Kumpf has successfully defended her doctoral thesis
• 2020 - Dirk Tischler was announced as Counry Ambassador for the American Society for Microbiology to Germany
• 2020 - Dirk Tischler was elected into the Board of the common specialist group "Biotransformations" of DECHEMA and VAAM
• 2020 - Group participated at the VAAM meeting in Leipzig, Antje and Marika had poster pitch and short presentation
• 2020 - Marika presented her work on Siderophores at the VAAM Leipzig
• 2019 - Approval of MERCUR Starting Grant „Functionalization of bacterial metabolites from the degradation of aromatic compounds: Glutathione S-Transferases“; contact: Dirk Tischler
• 2018 - Successful approval of the BioCOnversion project; contact: Carolin Mügge
• 2018 - Annual Conference of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology in Wolfsburg