Genetics of Prokaryotes

August 7, 2024
Congratulations! Jan Seeger won the Business Game Award of the 141th BASF International Summer Course together with his group for the business idea developed and presented on the topic “Renewable and Reprocessed Carbon”.

June 6, 2024
Wendisch Lab excursion to the Bielefeld Climbing Park.

December 15, 2023
Congratulations! Dr. Vanessa Göttl defended her PhD thesis on the "Pathway engineering strategies for carotenoid production with Corynebacterium glutamicum".

December 14, 2023
Wendisch Lab at the Christmas Market.

December 8, 2023
Congratulations! Dr. Ina Schmitt defended her PhD thesis on the "Bioprocess development for sustainable production of carotenoids by Corynebacterium glutamicum within the circular economy notion".

June 29, 2023
Wendisch Lab Excursion to the Zoo in Münster.

May 25, 2023
Congratulations! Dr. Arthur Burgardt defended his PhD thesis on the "Metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for the sustainable production of aromatic compounds".

August, 2021: Congratulation! Dr. Marta Irla, a former group member and PhD student of the CeBiTec was appointed Assistant Professor at Aarhus University.

June 15, 2022
Congratulations! Dr. Anastasia Kerbs defended her PhD thesis on the "Metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for functionalization of aromatic amino acids and derived amines".
 

December 17, 2021
Congratulations! Dr. Pierre Kugler defended his PhD thesis on the "Microbial Cell Factories for the Production of N-Functionalized and Chiral Amines".

November, 2021: Congratulation Dr. Nadja A. Henke for receiving 1 million Euro funding as a BMBF-VIP+-project to develop a bacterial production system for carotenoids.

August, 2021: First project meeting in presence since 2 years - the team of the EraCoBiotech project INDIE came together in Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia, to discuss the latest progress.

July 22, 2021
Congratulations! Dr. Carsten Haupka defended his PhD thesis on the "Metabolic Engineering of methylotrophic Bacillus methanolicus and non-methylotrophic Corynebacterium glutamicum for production of lysine-derived compounds".

April, 2021: From Bielefeld to Trondheim: Four young scientists who earned their doctorates in our research group are now continuing their successful Bielefeld research period together at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway.
(from left to right: Dr. Fernando Perez-Garcia, Dr. Marta Irla, Dr. Marina Gil López and Dr. Luciana Fernandes de Brito)

February 11, 2021
Congratulations! Dr. Tatjana Jilg (formerly Walter) defended her PhD thesis on the "Metabolic engineering for fermentative production of N-functionalized and aromatic amines".

February 2, 2021
Congratulations! Dr. Kerstin Schultenkämper defended her PhD thesis on the "Establishment of CRISPR interference in two Bacillales species and application for functional genomic analysis of the facultative methylotroph Bacillus methanolicus".

January, 2021: Tatjana Walter and Kerstin Schultenkämper explained their research to pupils in Teutolab-Biotechnologie-online: The video covers ERACoBioTech projects C1Pro and INDIE-project CeBiTec.

On December 12, 2020, our dear friend Michael Goodin passed away suddenly. He worked as Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Kentucky and always embraced both academics and life. Michael fought for a better understanding of science by the public. He was an excellent science communicator, see his blog on public perception of science and scientists “The Green Orange Café”. We will deeply miss you, Michael.

October 26, 2020
Congratulations! Dr. Marina Gil-Lopez defended her PhD thesis on the "Catabolic diversity of the facultative methylotroph Bacillus methanolicus".

January 30, 2020
Congratulations! Dr. Kareen Veldmann defended her PhD thesis on the "Fermentative production of chlorinated and brominated L-tryptophan by metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum".

December, 2019
Congratulations: Arthur Burgardt was awarded the Preis der Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie for his MSc studies and his thesis project "Metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for the production of Coenzyme Q10", a collaboration with Prof. Jin-Ho Lee (Kyungsung University Busan) funded by German BMBF and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

July/August, 2019

This summer, the C1Pro and INDIE teams were supported by international students. Anne-Laure Ricord, an ERASMUS student from Paris (France) and Rijul Bhimwal, a DAAD RISE fellow (Pennsylvania, USA) worked on a biotech process for indole. Sue Fletcher, a BSc student from Edmonton, Canada, participating in the Alberta OWL Cooperation, worked on Bacillus methanolicus biotechnology.

July 09, 2019

Congratulations! Dr. Melanie Mindt defended her PhD thesis on the "Access to N-alkylated amino acids by metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum and Pseudomonas putida".

July 05, 2019

Congratulations! Dr. Guido Hennig defended his PhD thesis on the "Metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum towards methanol-dependent growth".

July 04, 2019

Nadja A. Henke and Bicomer receive Inventor Award
Inventors Dr. Nadja A. Henke, Dr. Petra Peters-Wendisch and Prof. Dr. Volker F. Wendisch have been awarded the Jörg Schwarzbich Inventor Award for their patent on coproduction of carotenoids and amino acids. The Prize has been awarded for the first time. The production concept allows for the simultaneous access to two valuable compounds with relevance for the feed industry: lysine and astaxanthin. Bicomer seeks to apply this technology for the sustainable production of lysine and astaxanthin.

June 26, 2019

Congratulations! Dr. Petra Peters-Wendisch was awarded the Best Teaching Award 2019 by the Student Council of the Biology Department.

May, 2019

Congratulations! Dr. Nadja Alina Henke and Bicomer won first prize at the pitch competition at Biocamp 2019 in Breda, the Netherlands. The competition was part of the specialized business training which was organized by BioBase4SME and held in the cloister of Bovendonk. 19 bio-based start-ups from five countries from north-western europe participated and worked for 6 days on their businesses. The final pitch competition that took place in the chapel of the cloister was evaluated by three venture capitalists. See also on Twitter.

May 2nd, 2019

Congratulations! Volker Wendisch received the "Distinguished Scientist Award of the International Bioprocessing Association (IBA-IFIBiop). The prize was awarded May 2nd, 2019, during the opening ceremony of 8th IBA-IFIBiop-Conference, held in Miri, Sarawak (Malaysia).

April 11, 2019

Lenny Ferrer from the #INDIE team guided 10 pupils (9th grade) from the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium (Bünde) through the laboratories of the Wendisch group. The pupils learned about work as a scientist in a biotechnology lab and about the concept of sustainable indole bioproduction.

April 10, 2019

Kerstin Schultenkämper won the best poster award at the conference "BACELL 2019" held Apr 09-10, 2019, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Kerstin presented "Establishment and application of CRISPR interference to affect sporulation, hydrogen peroxide detoxification and mannitol catabolism in the methylotrophic thermophile Bacillus methanolicus" as part of the ERA-CoBioTech project C1Pro.

January 24, 2019

Congratulations! Dr. Elvira Sgobba defended her PhD thesis on the "Utilization of hexosamine containing feedstocks by Corynebacterium glutamicum: pathway engineering and construction of synthetic consortia".

January 23, 2019

Congratulations! Dr. Nadja Henke received the doctoral prize of the Universitätsgesellschaft Bielefeld (UGBi) for her PhD thesis work on the "Regulation of carotenoid biosynthesis and metabolic engineering for terpenoid production in Corynebacterium glutamicum".

November 25, 2018

Carsten Haupka won a poster prize in the session Industrial Biotechnology at the conference "Biotechnology at Biotechnological Research and Innovation for Sustainable Development 2018" held Nov 22-25, 2018, in Hyderbad, India. Carsten presented "Requirements for methanol-based production of lysine" as part of the ERA-CoBioTech project C1Pro.

September 20-21, 2018

Melanie Mindt won a poster prize at the conference "Emerging Trends in Natural Product Biotechnology" held Sep 20-21, 2018, in Dortmund. Melanie presented her work on fermentative production of N-alkylated amino acids.

September 13, 2018

2018  Kyungsung-Bielefeld CoQ10 Workshop at  Kyungsung University, Busan, South Korea, coordinated by Prof. Jin-Ho Lee and Prof. Volker F. Wendisch and funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

August 23, 2018

Nadja Henke and Bicomer receive funding from ERDF „START-UP-Hochschul-Ausgründungen NRW“

May 07, 2018

Collaborative Research Project "CLIB-Competence Center Biotechnology" coordinated by Volker F. Wendisch.

March 13-14, 2018

Congratulation to Poster Prize on IBF2018 - Melanie Mindt won a Poster Prize for presenting her scientific progress on "Access to N-methylated amino acids by fermentation" at the International Biotechnology Forum 2018 in Munich.

October 18, 2017

Vice world champion with cosmetic ingredients from renewable resources - Team Bicomer from Bielefeld made the second place together with the Dutch team at the 'Global Biobased Business' G-BIB Competition in Campos do Jordao, Brazil (more).

see more: Lokalzeit OWL (17.11.2017)