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Secondary metabolism impresses with its sheer diversity of the structures produced. However, these are only variations of the always same types of play. In this event, we would like to elaborate the principles with which nature fills its cornucopia with low-molecular substances.

The biennial ORCHEM conference took place this year from 5-7 September in Münster. Our PhD students Ruth-Christine Ganardi, Jasmin Wloka and Cindy Zimmermann were not only able to participate in exciting talks there, but also to present and discuss their posters.

Thank you very much for representing our synthetic work here so confidently.

Cindy Zimmermann attended the autumn conference of the American Chemical Society in Chicago this year.

On August 28th, the 10th International Congress on Biocatalysis started in Hamburg. Our group members Martin Wäscher, Mona Haase, Diana Amariei, Alexander Fejzagić, Thomas Classen and Christina Albrecht presented posters and lightning talks on their work. We are very proud that Mona Haases poster has been awarded. After four years without large in person conferences, the interaction with other researchers in the field was a very welcome change.

On August 23, 2022, in Bonn, Germany, we had the opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues on strategies and contributions for a sustainable bioeconomy. Currently, we are involved in the two BioSC projects ToxPot and Pro³Lucas and work on the isolation and modification of alkaloids.

Am letzten Sonntag öffnete das Forschungszentrum seine Tore für interessierte BesucherInnen zum beliebten Tag der Neugier. Wir haben uns gefreut, dieses Jahr als eins von knapp 60 Instituten wieder mit dabei gewesen zu sein, und neugierige Kinder, Jugendliche aber auch Erwachsene ein Stück weit in unsere Welt der Wissenschaft mitgenommen zu haben. Bunte Mitmachversuche mit Rotkohlsaft und Haushaltsmitteln vermittelten den kleinen Nachwuchsforschern alltagsbezogen grundlegende Prinzipien unserer täglichen Laborarbeit. Für die Erwachsenen gab es…

This week we would like to warmly welcome the participants of our Natural Product Synthesis I + II module. They will spend three to six weeks with us at the institute, hopefully learning a lot about synthesis planning in natural product chemistry and supporting our PhD students Cindy, Ruth, Mona and Marcel in their projects.

We wish you an exciting time at the institute.

Nikolai Huwa et al. have now been able to solve and publish the crystal structures of the two domains of OsJAC1. This brings us a little closer to the mechanism of powdery mildew resistance.

Thank you for the great work and the great collaboration.

At the end of July, Moritz Klischan went to Bayreuth for the Natural Products and Drugs Symposium (BNPDS), where he was also able to present his poster and discuss with other scientists interested in natural products. Apart from the delicious local beer at the end of the day, there were exciting lectures out of the world of natural products. Here, method developments and total syntheses as well as research from the field of biosynthesis were presented. Moritz, thank you very much for your contribution, we hope you could take a lot for yourself…

We have been waiting for this for a long time - finally the popular IBG-1 summer party took place this year again. In best summer weather we had barbecue, talked and had a beer or two in the Kontakthof. We from the IBOC would like to thank the whole ModSim team of Eric von Lieres for the great organization, it was really a very nice afternoon.