Archive News About the Group
2020-2022
A green alga viewed through a light microscope
2022
- December 2022: new preprint from David A. Russo in collaboration with the group to send off the year 2022: Cell surface composition and ionic strength mediate fast sedimentation in the cyanobacterium External linkSynechococcus elongatus PCC 7942External link
- December 2022: Unsere Masterstudierenden Theresa und Damian haben ihre Arbeiten erfolgreich eingereicht - wir gratulieren!
- September, 28th 2022: Our PhD student Miriam Verucchi won the poster prize at the "Cyano2022 External link–7th Early Career Researcher Symposium on Cyanobacteria" in Leipzig. What a great start for our CRC "ChemBioSys" Project and for her personally as a new PhD student!
- September, 15th 2022: Our microdroplets manuscripts has now been published in Scientific Reports. DOI:10.1038/s41598-022-19773-6External link
- July 2022: New preprint from our work in collaboration with the Physical Chemistry/ Microreaction Technology Group at TU Ilmenau: Droplet-based microfluidics as a media optimization tool for cyanobacteriaExternal link
- March 2022: Our PhD student Alexandra Schirmacher came second in the 3-Minute-Thesis Competition at the FSU 3 Minute Thesis Competition - congratulations! uni-jena.de/en/3MTExternal link
2021
- December, 13th 2021: The preprint is now published in the Journal of Bacteriology. DOI: 10.1128/JB.00504-21External link
- October, 9th 2021: A new preprint by David A. Russo et al. about "Development of a highly sensitive luciferase-based reporter system to study two-step protein secretion in cyanobacteria" is out. DOI: 10.1101/2021.10.08.463751External link
- September, 14th 2021:The Cebitec Young Researcher Award 2021 was awarded to Julie Zedler at the 10th International CeBiTec Research ConferenceExternal link.
- September 2021: The group has received Seedfunding from the Excellene Cluster Balance of the MicroverseExternal link and will eagerly get to work.
- July 2021: We are joining the Collaborative Research Center ChemBioSysExternal link to further strengthen work in the CRC with cyanobacteria. Looking forward to some exciting collaborative research!
- June, 26th 2021: Kick-start event iGEM Phototrophs Meetup, check out the break-out session about cyanobacterial transformation, recorded on Youtube hereExternal link
- May 2021: the Young Algaeneers Symposium 2021 was a great success! Check out further details hereExternal link
2020
- December, 18th 2020: An introduction to "Cyanobacteria for Biotechnology" I gave at the #Cyano2020 Summer School is now available on Youtube. Check it out hereExternal link.
- December, 2nd 2020: Our MSc Student Sayali Hanamghar received a scholarship from the federal state of Thuringia to continue her work with us as a PhD student – Congratulations!
- October, 23rd 2020: Our review about natural competence in cyanobacteria was published (check out more details under Publications).
- October, 9th 2020: A review article about protein translocation and secretion in cyanobacteria is now online (check out more details under Publications).
- Mai, 12th 2020: Interview about the professorship and our interest: "Leben von Luft und Licht" (this is in German only) Article can be found here.External link