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Artur Maier

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Microbial Biotechnology
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Md Mortoza Ashraf

ND 04/584
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Applied Microbiology
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Felix Dicks

MA 3/134
Phone: +49 234 32-21673
Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry
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Melody Haarmann

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Microbial Biotechnology
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Florian Heinrichs

NDEF 06/786
Phone: +49 234 32-21750
Microbial Biology
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Jingyi Hu

NC 3/175
Phone: +49 234 32-27103
Organic Chemistry
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Irina Shevyreva

NDEF 06/786
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Microbial Biology
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Jasmine Ochs

NC 3/32
Phone: +49 234 32-28914
Inorganic Chemistry
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Jan Plewka-Mandelkow

ND 3/24
Phone: +49 234 32-24287
Molecular Genetics and Physiology of Plants
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Lars Pospisil

ND 2/131
Phone: +49 234 32-25279
Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis
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Laísa Quadros Barsé

MA 3/135
Phone: +49 234 32-27899
Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry
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Dennis Sander

MA 3/134
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Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry
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Myra Schmidtke

ND 3/24
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Molecular Genetics and Physiology of Plants
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Feng Zheng

ND 1/133
Phone: +49 234 32-25823
Photobiotechnology
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Coordination
Jennifer Bolte

NDEF 06/784
Phone: +49 234 32-28100
Microbial Biology /Administrative Office
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Dr. Stephan Pienkoß

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Microbial Biology /Scientific Coordinator
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Advisory Board
Prof. Dr. Bärbel Friedrich


Bärbel Friedrich is a professor of Microbiology and member of the Leopoldina Presidium since 1994. In 2019 she was selected as an Honorary Member of the Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie (VAAM)


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Prof. Dr. Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel


Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel holds a W3-professorship for Microbiology at the TU Kaiserslautern. Her research interest lays in the assembly of light-harvesting phycobiliproteins in cyanobacteria and unicellular algae (cryptophytes).

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Prof. Dr. Christine Lang


Christine Lang combines entrepreneurial and academic work. She was co-chair of the German Bioeconomy Council, founder of OrganoBalance GmbH and, since 2006, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the TU Berlin. Christine Lang is currently head of the MBCC Group.

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Prof. Dr. Matthias Rögner


Matthias Rögner is an expert in the field of plant bioenergetics and professor emeritus at the Ruhr University Bochum. He was speaker of the international RTG 795 and the SFB 480.





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Graduates
Dr. Daniel Eggerichs

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Title of dissertation:
»Flavoprotein-mediated oxidation of lignin monomers for the application in a Rhodococcus cell factory«

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Dr. Barbara Ramšak

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Title of dissertation:
»Structure-function analysis of fungal mating-type transcription factors«

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Dr. Hiroyuki Seebach

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Title of dissertation:
»Biochemische Charakterisierung eukaryotischer Nicotianaminsynthasen«

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Dr. Melissa Vázquez-Hernández

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Title of dissertation:
»Physiology of ribosome rescue in bacteria«

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Dr. Anna Schulten

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Title of dissertation:
»Regulatory integration of metal homeostasis with metabolism and development in Arabidopsis thaliana«

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Dr. Pina Eichert

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Title of dissertation:
»Olefin metathesis of phospholipids in vesicles«

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Dr. Leonie Sagurna

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Title of dissertation:
»Omics-based investigation of natural products produced by bacterial isolates of the genus Streptomyces«

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Dr. Julia Kleetz

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Title of dissertation:
»Identification, characterization and physiological relevance of phosphatidylcholine-biosynthesis enzymes in different bacteria«

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Dr. Xuemei Lin

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Title of dissertation:
»Genetic engineering of the industrial fungus Acremonium chrysogenum: in vivo one-step bioconversion from cephalosporin C to 7-aminocephalosporanic acid«

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Dr. Kirstin Arend

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Title of dissertation:
»Biosynthesis of calcimycin and analogs in Streptomyces chartreusis NRRL 3882«

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Dr. Anna Frank

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Title of dissertation:
»Molecular characterization and optimization of photosystem I-based biohybrids for in vitro catalysis«

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Dr. Nicole Lorenz-Schubert

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Title of dissertation:
»Investigation of bioorthogonal uncaging reactions with an organometallic ruthenium catalyst for applications inside Gram-positive bacteria«

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Dr. Tim Dirks

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Title of dissertation:
»Plasma-driven biocatalysis and the investigation of plasma-protein interactions«

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Dr. Hitesh Medipally

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Title of dissertation:
»Redox-engineered photosystems and tailor-made electron pathways for in vitro biocatalysis«

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Dr. Anna-Maria Möller

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Title of dissertation:
»Insights into the regulation and antimicrobial inhibition of lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis in Escherichia coli«

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Dr. Jan Burnik

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Title of dissertation:
»X-ray structure analyses of [FeFe]-hydrogenases from algae and glutathione S-transferases from actinobacteria«

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Dr. Georgios Vasilopoulos

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Title of dissertation:
» Biochemical characterization of promiscuous enzymes involved in phospholipid biosynthesis in bacteria«

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Dr. Cynthia Vesterager

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Title of dissertation:
»Untargeted metabolomics applied for the differentiation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii at physiologically relevant conditions«

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Dr. Anna Lienkamp

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Title of dissertation:
»Glutathione-dependent enzymes from degradative metabolisms in the Actinobacterium Gordonia rubripertincta CWB2 for biotechnological applications«

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Dr. Stefanie Böhmer

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Title of dissertation:
»Characterization of Old Yellow Enzymes from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii«

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Dr. Claudia Brocks

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Title of dissertation:
»Strukturelle Charakterisierung des Gaskanalnetzwerkes der [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Cp1 aus Clostridium pasteurianum zur Herstellung von O2-stabilen Enzymvarianten«

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Dr. Vera Engelbrecht

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Title of dissertation:
»Design and characterization of novel biocatalysts for photosynthetic hydrogen production«

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Dr. Junichi Enoki

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Title of dissertation:
»Development of cascade reactions for the synthesis of optically pure compounds using bacterial decarboxylative enzymes«

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Dr. Marius Grote

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Title of dissertation:
»Kombinatorische Biosynthese zur Manipulation von Polyketiden«

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Dr. Sascha Heinrich

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Title of dissertation:
»Synthetische und biosynthetische Derivatisierung und Analyse von Polyketiden«

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Dr. Johannes Sommerkamp

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Title of dissertation:
»Structure and function of ferredoxin-dependent bilin reductases from algae, bacteria and phages«

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Dr. Premankur Sukul

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Title of dissertation:
»Functional metaproteomics to discover novel lipolytic enzymes«

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Dr. Abdulkadir Yayci

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Title of dissertation:
»Plasma-driven biocatalysis«

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