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The popular HHU pART of Research calendar competition is entering its next round. Under this year's motto: "Creative and Colourful", many creative contributions were submitted, including three great pictures from the IBOC. These were contributed by our talented colleagues Moritz Klischan, Hannah Braß and Dorothea Koßmann.

Everyone can now vote for his or her favourites - the voting is open until 30.06.2021.

Dear Hannah,

As you are the last of the previous generation of doctoral students to finish your time at the IBOC, also an era in the "Bio" is coming to an end. We would like to take this as an opportunity to look back.

In addition to the many fruitful collaborations in which you have participated within your extensive project and from which numerous publications have emerged, you have not only been a driving force for the research area. As a former lab manager and post-doc, you will also leave a gap that will not be easy to fill. Your…

Nikolai Huwa, as first author, was able to conduct his first studies on OsJAC1, a protein from rice that confers resistance to powdery mildew, among other things. In this publication, he shows that both the jaccalin domain and the dirigent protein domain can bind glycosides. Our sincere congratulations on this publication, Nikolai, may more beautiful works like this follow.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank our cooperation partners: Ulrich Schaffrath (RWTH Aachen), without whom this project would never have come about, and…

The research consortium CombiCom and the resulting project community TailLead would like to sincerely thank Dr. Anita Loeschcke for four years of project leadership. As Focuslab leader, she kept our troop on track, made us meet deadlines and represented us excellently to the outside world on so many occasions - be it in reports, reviews, defences, congresses or blogs. Without your work, CombiCom would certainly not have been so well networked and probably would not have been so successful. We would like to thank Anita for these achievements…

Nikolai Huwa presented his latest research results at the virtual conference European Federation of Biotechnology 2021. His poster 'Interaction Study of a Defence Conferring Rice Protein -OsJAC1' shows that the protein OsJAC1 from rice has sugar-binding properties in its two domains. We are optimistic that we will soon be able to post Nikolai's original publication on the results here. The pitch can be found here.

This month, we are pleased to welcome seven new faces to the Institute. All disciplines are represented, and graduates have begun their bachelor's, master's or doctoral theses. Welcome to (from left to right) Viktoria Warth, Sebastian Myllek, Mona Haase, Marcel Schatton, Regina Lennarz, Marisa Bickmann and Alina Müller. We would like to wish you much success and fun with your theses.

In the current blog post in the IBG-1 Bioeconomy Blog,

Robin Weihmann, Hannah Brass and Anita Loeschcke report on the exciting work within the "CombiCom" project. Within the project, the colleagues mainly dealt with the search for and further development of active compounds. Among other things, they report on the exciting research topic around the "bright red natural substance prodigiosin".

If you haven't done so yet, you should definitely check out the blog. The article is peppered with beautiful photos and a small video and is well worth…

Today we (Institute for Bioorganic Chemistry) would like to congratulate our colleague Marvin Mantel and his co-authors Markus Giesler, Marian Guder and Elisabeth Rüthlein for their excellent work and the resulting publication in the journal Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed.

The article describes an organocatalysed, low-solvent, multi-component one-pot process, which allows chemoenzymatic access to a-methylated ketones and diols starting from favourable reactants. These enantiomerically pure key substances are important building blocks in many…

Once again this year, the qualification module for bachelor students takes place exclusively online.

In this module, we teach the students valuable content from the laboratory and institute whereby we want to support them in doing their bachelor's thesis.

With our Eggsperiment, for example, we want to introduce the students to the principle of hypothesis formation and parsimony. Tom has created two videos for this purpose, which can be viewed in the HHU media library.

We wish our bachelor students Regina Lennarz, Alina Müller, Viktoria…

From 29.03. - 01.04.2021, this year's JCF Spring Symposium took place as an online version via gather.town, in which our colleagues Jasmin Wloka, Cindy Zimmermann, Teresa Friedrichs and Benedikt Baumer participated. While Ben was invited to give a presentation on "Biocatalysis and cofactor regeneration under continuous flow conditions", Teresa was delighted to receive a poster prize from Evonik for her contribution. Congratulations.