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Past Events
2024
Progress Report

Wed, 23rd Oct, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Lars Pospisil
Room: ND 04/172

Team Building

Wed, 16th Oct, 4:00 p.m.

Boda Borg, Ruhr Park

Research Seminar

Wed, 15th Sep, 3:00 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Julia Kleetz
Affiliation: University of British Columbia, Canada
ZEMOS 0.17

Career Talks

Wed, 10th July, 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Ahmed Faisal Ismail Ali
Affiliation: Senior Director, Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH
ZOOM

Research Seminar

Thu, 4th July, 3:00 p.m.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Florian Peter Seebeck
Affiliation: University Basel, CH
ND 5/99

GMP course

Wed, 12th June - Fri, 14th June 

Webinar

Career Talks & BBQ

Wed, 29th May, 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Georgios Vasilopoulos
Affiliation: NanoTemper
ZEMOS 0.17

Followed by a BBQ at the HZO

Writing Retreat

Mon, 13th May - Thu, 16th May 

Erndtebrück-Birkelbach

Career Talks

Wed, 8th May, 3:00 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Álvaro Gómez Baraibar & Dr. Bettina Nestl
Affiliation: Lonza, CH & Innophore, AT
ZOOM Meeting

Writing Retreat Kickoff Meeting

Mon, 29th Apr, 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Seminar Room NDEF 06

Career Talks

Wed, 10th Apr, 3:00 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Andrea Kneuttinger & Dr. Michaela Wenzel
Affiliation: University of Regensburg & Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
ZOOM Meeting

Progress Report

Wed, 6th Mar, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Cansel Yesilyurt
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Research Seminar

Wed, 28th Feb, 3:00 p.m.

"Natural products from underexplored bacteria - exploring the diversity of neglected genera"
Speaker: Dr. Lukas Lauterbach
Affiliation: University of Florida
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Progress Report

Wed, 21st Feb, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Sofía Bravo & Irinia Shevyreva
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Progress Report

Wed, 7th Feb, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Artur Maier
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Progress Report

Wed, 31st Jan, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Fjoralba Zeqiri & Mortoza Ashraf
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Progress Report

Wed, 17th Jan, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Felix Dicks & Lars Pospisil
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Research Seminar

Tue, 16th Jan, 4:30 p.m.

"Science FACTion - Science Communication by Researchers"
Speaker: Dr. Nicolas Wöhrl
Affiliation: University of Duisburg-Essen
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

2023
Progress Report

Wed, 6th Dez, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Feng Zheng & Florian Riemer
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Progress Report

Wed, 22nd Nov, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Melody Haarmann
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Research Seminar

Fri, 17th Nov, 12:00 p.m.

"The synthetic yeast genome project (Sc2.0) - More than just rewriting a genome"
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Schindler
Affiliation: MPI Marburg
Room: ND 3/99

Progress Report

Wed, 8th Nov, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Jingyi Hu & Myra Schmidtke
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Progress Report

Wed, 25th Oct, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Jasmine Ochs & Jan Plewka-Mandelkow
Room: ND 03/99!

Research Seminar

Wed, 18th Oct, 3:00 p.m.

"From Scientist to Biofounder" & " Chemoenzymatic cascades with flavin-dependent enzymes"
Speaker: Dr. David Adam & Prof. Dr. Caroline Paul
Affiliation: MPI Marburg & TU Delft
Room: ND 03/99!

Doctoral Examination - Daniel Eggerichs

Fri, 13th June, 14:00 p.m.

"Flavoprotein-mediated oxidation of lignin monomers for the application in a Rhodococcus cell factory"
Host: IGB
Room: NC 02/99

Progress Report

Wed, 11th Oct, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Laísa Quadros Barsé
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

MiCon Enzyme Workshop

Wed, 27th Sep - Fri, 29th Sep
Host: Daniel Eggerichs, Artur Maier, Dirk Tischler

Research Seminar

Wed, 27th Sep, 3:00 p.m.

"Unraveling and applying physiological traits of anaerobic (gas-fermenting) microbes"
Speaker: Dr. Bastian Molitor
Affiliation: Molecular Biology Inspired Tools for Original Research, Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tübingen
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Research Seminar

Wed, 13th Sep, 3:15 p.m.

"Charge transfer luminophores for sensing and phototherapy"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tia Keyes
Affiliation: School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland
Room: NC 3/99

Research Seminar

Wed, 30th Aug, 3:00 p.m.

"CryoEM at Forschungszentrum Jülich - basics, current research and how you may use our facility to solve your protein structure"
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Mann
Affiliation: Ernst Ruska Zentrum (ER-C-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Progress Report

Wed, 12th July, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Irina Shevyreva & Sofia Bravo
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Research Seminar

Wed, 5th July, 3:00 p.m.

"Insights in archaeal lipid biogenesis and the implications on the lipid divide"
Speaker: Dr. Marten Exterkate
Affiliation: Membrane Biogensis and Lipidomics, Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Room: ND 6/99

Doctoral Examination - Leonie Sagurna

Fri, 30th June, 10:00 a.m.

"Omics-based investigation of natural products produced by bacterial isolates of the genus Streptomyces"
Host: IGB
Room: ND 5/99

Progress Report

Wed, 21st June, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Artur Maier & Lara-Sophie Kaufmann
Room: ND 6/99

Doctoral Examination - Anna-Maria Möller

Fri, 16th June, 10:15 a.m.

"Insights into the regulation and antimicrobial inhibition of lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis in Escherichia coli"
Host: IGB
Room: ND 5/99

Doctoral Examination - Tim Dirks

Thu, 15th June, 2:15 p.m.

"Plasma-driven biocatalysis and the investigation of plasma-protein interactions"
Host: IGB
Room: ND 2/99

CESAR Symposium

Fri, 5th May, 9:00 a.m.

Host: Julia Bandow
Room: German Mining Museum Bochum

CESAR Opening

Wed, 3rd May, 12:00 p.m.

Host: Julia Bandow
Room: Beckmanns Hof

Faculty Colloquium

Wed, 26th April, 3:00 p.m.

Host: Christine Kaimer
Room: ND 5/99

MiCon Spring School

Tue, 18th - Wed, 19th April

Room: Beckmanns Hof

Workshop

Mon, 17th April, 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Research Data Management
Room: ZEMOS 0.17+0.19

Research Seminar & Career Talks

Wed, 5th April, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

"Natural and synthetic biochemistry of environmental bacteria / Systems and synthetic biology"
Speaker: Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski & Tae Seok Moon
Room: HZO80 & ZEMOS 0.17+0.19

Progress Report

Wed, 1st March, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Florian Riemer
Room: ZEMOS 0.17+0.19

Progress Report

Wed, 15th February, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Cansel Yesilyurt & Lars Pospisil
Room: ZEMOS 0.17+0.19

Progress Report

Wed, 1st February, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Mortoza Ashraf
Room: ZEMOS 0.17+0.19

Progress Report

Wed, 18th January, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Leonie Sagurna & Fjoralba Zeqiri
Room: ZEMOS 0.17+0.19

Research Seminar

Wed, 11th January, 3:00 p.m.

"Bacterial cell envelope synthesis control by the moonlighting enzyme ObgE"
Speaker: Dr. Liselot Dewachter & Babette Deckers
Affiliations: VIB, Center for Microbiology, KU Leuven, Belgium & VIB-VUB, Center for Structural Biology, VU Brussel, Belgium
ZOOM

2022
Progress Report

Wed, 7th December, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Feng Zheng & Felix Dicks
Room: ZEMOS 0.17+0.19

Progress Report

Wed, 23rd November, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Melody Haarmann & Tim Dirks
Room: ZEMOS 0.17+0.19

BioCyc Seminar

Thu, 10th November, 6:00 p.m.

"SmartTables and Comparative Analysis"
ZOOM

Progress Report

Wed, 9th November, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Jingyi Hu & Myra Schmidtke
Room: NDEF 06/780

BioCyc Seminar

Thu, 3rd November, 5:00 p.m.

"Transcriptomics and Metabolomics Data Analysis"
ZOOM

BioCyc Seminar

Thu, 27th October, 6:00 p.m.

"Metabolism in BioCyc"
ZOOM

Progress Report

Wed, 26th October, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Daniel Eggerichs & Jasmine Ochs
Room: ZEMOS 0.17+0.19

BioCyc Seminar

Thu, 20th October, 6:00 p.m.

"Introduction to BioCyc"
ZOOM

Research Seminar

Wed, 12th October, 1:00 p.m.

"The dynamic exchange of core components shapes function and regulation of the type III secretion system"
Speaker: Dr. Andreas Diepold
Affiliation: Dept. of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute, Marburg
Room: 03/99

Doctoral Examination - Melissa Vázquez-Hernández

Fri, 30th September, 9:45 a.m.

"Physiology of ribosome rescue in bacteria"
Room: ND 2/99

Doctoral Examination - Anna Christina Lienkamp

Thu, 29th September, 1:00 p.m.

"Glutathione-dependent enzymes from degradative metabolisms in the Actinobacterium Gordonia rubripertincta CWB2 for biotechnological applications"
Room: ND 2/99

Research Seminar

Fri, 23rd September, 2:15 p.m.

"Exploiting siderophores in the development of antimicrobials and artificial enzymes"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Anne-Kathrin Duhme-Klaire
Affiliation: Dept. of Chemistry, University of York, UK
Room: 03/99

Research Seminar

Tue, 6th September, 1:15 p.m.

"The effects of ROS on Gram-negative bacteria and their defense mechanisms"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jan Dahl
Affiliation: Illinois State University, School of Biological Sciences, Normal, IL, USA
Room: HMA 30

Progress Report

Wed, 13th July, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Kai Vocke & Cynthia Vesterager
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 6th July, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Anna Möller & Felix Dicks
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 29th June, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Feng Zheng
Room: online

Doctoral Examination - Xuemei Lin

Fri, 24th June, 9:15 a.m.

"Genetic engineering of the industrial fungus Acremonium chrysogenum: in vivo one-step bioconversion from cephalosporin C to 7-aminocephalosporanic acid"
Host: IGB
Room: NDEF 06/780

Doctoral Examination - Anna Frank

Thu, 23th June, 3:00 p.m.

"Molecular characterization and optimization of photosystem I-based biohybrids for in vitro catalysis"
Host: IGB
Room: ND 2/99

Doctoral Examination - Barbara Ramsak

Wed, 22nd June, 3:45 p.m.

"Structure-function analyses of fungal mating-type transcription factors"
Host: IGB
Room: ND 2/99

Progress Report

Wed, 22nd June, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Mortoza Ashraf & Jasmine Ochs
Room: online

Doctoral Examination - Nicole Lorenz-Schubert

Tue, 21th June

"Investigation of bioorthogonal uncaging reactions with an organometallic ruthenium catalyst for applications inside Gram-positive bacteria"

Progress Report

Wed, 15th June, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Nathalie Woitzik & Lars Pospisil
Room: online

MiCon Research Seminar

Wed, 8th June, 3:00 p.m.

"Tuning oxygenic photosynthesis to its energy limit - how cyanobacteria use far-red light"
Speaker: Dr. Dennis Nürnberg
Affiliation: Free University Berlin, Emmy-Noether Research Group
Room: ND 2/99

DFG Evaluation

Thu, 2nd June

All MiCon Members & PIs

Doctoral Examination - Claudia Brocks

Tue, 31th May, 12:30 p.m.


"Strukturelle Charakterisierung des Gaskanalnetzwerkes der [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Cp1 aus Clostridium pasteurianum zur Herstellung von O2-stablien Enzymvarianten"
Host: IGB
Room: ND 2/99

Doctoral Examination - Stefanie Böhmer

Tue, 31th May, 9:00 a.m.


"Characterization of Old Yellow Enzymes from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii"
Host: IGB
Room: ND 2/99

MiCon Research Seminar

Wed, 11th May, 3:00 p.m.

Guest: Nikola Loncar (Gecco Biotech, Groningen, NL)

MiCon Retreat 2022

Wed, 4th - Fri, 6th May

2nd MiCon Generation

IGB Defense

Tue, 3rd May, 10:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Students: Cansel Yesilyurt, Mortoza Ashraf, Melody Haarmann, Lars Pospisil
Room: ND 2/99

Progress Report

Wed, 27th April, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Laísa Quadros Barsé & Cansel Yesilyurt
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 20th April, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Tim Dirks
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 13th April, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Florian Heinrichs
Room: online

Doctoral Examination - Georgios Vasilopulos

Fri, 8th April, 2:00 p.m.


"Biochemical characterization of enzymes involved in phospholipid biosynthesis in bacteria"
Host: IGB
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 30th March, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Melody Haarmann
Room: online

Doctoral Examination - Julia Kleetz

Fri, 25th March, 2:15 p.m.

"Identification, characterization and physiological relevance of phosphatidylcholine-biosynthesis enzymes in different bacteria"
Host: IGB
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 23rd March, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Jan Plewka-Mandelkow
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 16th March, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Melissa Vázquez-Hernández & Jingyi Hu
Room: online

GSP Seminar for Newcomer

Wed, 16th March, 10:00 a.m.

Host: Prof. Dr. Ulf Eysel
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 9th March, 3:00 p.m.

Student: Jan Burnik
Room: online

Doctoral Examination - Kirstin Arend

Thu, 3rd March, 1:15 p.m.

"Biosynthesis of calcimycin and analogs in Streptomyces chartreusis NRRL 3882"
Host: IGB
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 2nd March, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Daniel Egerichs & Fjoralba Zeqiri
Room: online

MiCon Seminar

Mo, 14th February, 3:00 p.m.

"Are You Stressed? The Mysterious Diadenosine Nucleotides"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gert Bange
Affiliation: University Marburg, SYNMICRO
Room: online, ND 2/99

Inaugural Lecture - Prof. Dr. Marc Nowaczyk

Tue, 11th January, 9:15 a.m.

"Molecular Machines of Photosynthesis"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Marc Nowaczyk
Room: HNC 10

2021
MiCon Seminar

Thu, 16th December, 4:00 p.m.

"Calculating the Secrets of Life - "Tools to Think"
about Structure and Function of Proteins"
Host: Dr. Till Rudack
Room: online

MiCon Workshop

Thu, 16th December, 10:00 a.m.

"Easy skripting with PyMOL"
Host: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Hofmann
Room: online

Good Scientific Practice Seminar (MiCon Day)

Tue, 16th November, 10:15 a.m.

Host: Prof. Dr. Ulf Eysel
Room: PURE Seminar Room

MiCon Day - Welcoming the 2nd Generation

Tue, 16th November, all day

Host: Prof. Dr. Franz Narberhaus & MiCon
Room: PURE Seminar Room

MiCon Workshop

Fri, 15th October, 3:00 p.m.

"Computational Structure Prediction"
Host: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Hofmann & Dr. Till Rudack
Room: online

Doctoral Examination - Sascha Heinrich

Fri, 15th October, 9:00 a.m.

"Synthetic and biosynthetic derivatization and analysis of polyketides"
Host: GSCB
Room: ZEMOS 0.17/0.19

GMP Seminar

Mon, 27th September - Tuem 28th September

GMP Academy Thomas Beer & Tobias Halfpap GbR
Room: online

MiCon Online Symposium

Wed, 8th September - Fri, 10th September

"Perspectives in Bioenergetics"
Host: Marc Nowaczyk Lab
Room: online

MiCon Welcome BBQ

Fri, 9th September, 4:00 p.m.

Get Together - 1st & 2nd MiCon generation

MiCon "Thursday's Career Talks"

Thur, 10th June, 3:00 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Katharina Klasen
Affiliation: Patent attorney @ Bals & Vogel 
Room: online

MiCon "Thursday's Career Talks"

Thur, 27th May, 5:00 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Romário de Melo
Affiliation: Senior Consultant @ Intys Consulting Brussels
Room: online

MiCon "Thursday's Career Talks"

Thur, 5th May, 5 p.m

Speaker: Dr. Janine Nebel
Affiliation: Department Management Material Testing @ Tritech GmbH
Room: online

MiCon "Thursday's Career Talks"

Thur, 15th April, 5:00 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Marie-Christine Hoffmann
Affiliation: Project manager @ Colgate-Palmolive
Room: online

MiCon "Thursday's Career Talks"

Thur, 29th April, 5:00 p.m.

Speaker: Marco Böckenberg
Affiliation: Salesmanager @ LMS Labor- und Meßgeräte GmbH
Room: online

MiCon "Thursday's Career Talks"

Thur, 22nd April, 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Sonja Augustin
Affiliation: Application Specialist @ Axel Semrau GmbH
Room: online

MiCon "Thursday's Career Talks"

Thur, 8th April, 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Julia Weiler
Affiliation: Editor-in-chief Science Magazine Rubin @ Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Room: online

MiCon Publishing Workshop

Wed, 23rd February, 3:30 p.m.

"Publishing from the perspective of an editor"
Room: online

MiCon Writing Retreat

Wed, 22nd - 26th February, see detailed program

2020
MiCon Publishing Workshop

Wed, 9th December, 3:30 p.m.

"Getting Published in 2020 and Beyond: How to Adapt to a Rapidly Changing"
Publication Landscape
Affiliation: Wiley-VCH
Room: online

Progress Report

Fri, 18th December, 3:30 p.m.

Students: Leonie Sagurna and Kirstin Arend
Room: online

Progress Report

Fri, 13th January, 3:30 p.m.

Students: Julia Kleetz and Georgios Vasilopoulos
Room: online

2019
MiCon External Seminar

tba

"Discovery, biosynthesis and bioengineering of antibiotics from Gram-negative bacteria"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Greg Challis
Affiliation: University of Warwick
Room: PURE Seminar Room, ND 04/172

MiCon External Seminar

tba

"The Impossible Chemistry of Biological Nitrogen Fixation"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Oliver Einsle
Affiliation: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Progress Report

Wed, 27th November, 3:30 p.m.

Students: Xuemei Lin and Barbara Ramsak
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 11th November, 3:30 p.m.

Students: Nathalie Woitzik and Anna Möller
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 30th October, 3:30 p.m.

Students: Stefanie Böhmer and Sabrina Duda
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 14th October, 3:30 p.m.

Students: Pina Eichert and Nicole Lorenz
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

Progress Report

Wed, 24th July, 3:30 p.m.

Students: Claudia Brocks and Anna Frank
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 15th July, 3:30 p.m.

Students: Daniel Eggerichs and Anna Lienkamp
Room: online

MiCon External Seminar & Careers in Science

Wed, 9th July, 3:30 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Johannes Rebelein
Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 1st July, 1:00 p.m.

Students: Sascha Heinrich
Room: online

Progress Report

Wed, 17th June, 3:30 p.m.

Students: Kai Vocke and Jan Burnikw
Room: online

Progress Report

Fri, 20th May, 4:15 p.m.

Students: Hiroyuki Seebach and Jan Mandelkow
Room: online

Progress Report

Fri, 31st January, 3:30 p.m.

Students: Hitesh Medipally and Dennis Sander
Room: NDEF 06/780
after that Stammtisch at Summa cum laude

Progress Report

Wed, 15th January, 3:30 p.m.

Students: Jan Burnik and Nathalie Woitzik
Room: NDEF 06/780

2018
MiCon External Seminar

Wed, 13th November, 3:30 p.m.  

"Exploring sulfur cycle anaerobes for useful biocatalytic processes"
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Inês Cardoso Pereira
Affiliation: ITQB - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Room: ZEMOS 0.17

MiCon External Seminar

Wed, 16th October, 3:30 p.m.

"Bacterial Metal Chelators for Antibacterial Strategies"
Speaker: Dr. Wilma Neumann
Affiliation: Inorganic Chemistry I, Bioinorganic Chemistry, RUB
Room: ND 3/99

Progress Report

Fri, 11th October, 3:30 p.m.

Students: Kirstin Arend
Room: NDEF 06/780
after that Stammtisch at Summa cum laude

Progress Report

Wed, 18th September, 3:00 p.m.

Students: Leonie Sagurna
Room: NDEF 06/780

MiCon Summer School

Wed, 11th September - Fri, 13th September

Blue Square/Veranstanltungszentrum
Guests: Prof. Dr. Matthias Rögner, Prof. Dr. Bärbel Friedrich, Prof. Dr. Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel, and many more.

The program flyer for the MiCon Summer School can be downloaded here

Graduation Party

Fri, 12th July, 1:00 p.m.

Location: Audimax
after that BBQ at the Botanical Garden!