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Andreas Sebastian Klein studied biochemistry at the Heinrich-Heine-University and worked from 2013-2017 on the natural product class of prodiginins. In 2018 he completed his research on this topic with the successful defence of his doctoral thesis. He remained a valuable member of the institute until the end of January 2020 and worked on chemoenzymatic cascade reactions to tetrahydroisoquinolines. He then moved on to ETH Zurich for another postdoctoral stay in the young research group of Prof. Cathleen Zymer, whom he had met during Biotrans…

Waldemar Klaus was able to successfully defend his master thesis with the topic "Experiments on the synthesis of novel tetrahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indolone derivatives" yesterday. During his time at IBOC, Waldemar stood out scientifically especially for his detailed mechanistic considerations. Personally, his colleagues appreciated his constant helpfulness, reliability and honesty.

Dear Waldemar, we congratulate you warmly and wish you all the best for your future. We will miss your winning laugh and of course the delicious brownies.

Recently, the results of a great collaborative project of Cindy Zimmermann with Markus Nett and Sebastian Kruth from TU Dortmund University could be placed in the journal molecules. Herein they report on the synthesis of promising aurachin derivatives via whole cell biotransformation and the subsequent evaluation of their antiprotozoal properties.

Congratulations to all those involved.

Last week, three motivated students started with the module Natural Product Synthesis at IBOC. Dominic Badermann, Neomi Rüter and Noemi Wladarz (front from left to right) are working in the projects of our PhD students Sebastian Myllek and Matthias Bleser (back from left to right), and thus get exciting insights into the natural product synthesis research at our institute.

We are happy that you three are here and hope you have a wonderful and educational time at IBOC.

At the end of last year, Moritz Klischan was given the opportunity to fly to Toronto for a three-month research stay. During this time, he made important contributions to the topic of "multicomponent palladium catalysis" in Professor Lautens' group at the University of Toronto. According to Moritz, it was a very educational and enjoyable experience. Both professionally and personally, he was able to take away a lot for himself and will certainly think back to his stay in Canada often, not only because of the newly established contacts.

Ulrich Schulte verstarb zu früh am 16. Dezember 2022

Our colleagues from the Schaffrath working group in Aachen left us with a Christmas present. On December 23, 2022, our joint study on Jacalin-Dirigent chimeras could be published in Plants. Such proteins produce resistance to plant pathogens in sweet grasses. In dicotyledonous plants, the domains are present as separate proteins. Thus, a total of 50 JRL proteins and 24 DIR proteins have been identified here. However, selected combinations do not yet indicate the same physiological function. Thus, it remains exciting about the function of this…

Today, Cornelius Pawlowsky successfully defended his master thesis with the topic "Teleocidin B and congeners: Studies towards the synthesis of Indolactam V derivatives".

Cornelius will now start his PhD with us, which we are very happy about.

Dear Cornelius, we congratulate you very much and are glad that even the difficult to establish aminations did not deter you ;) We wish you all the best for the start of your doctorate.

We would like to congratulate our dear colleague Pascal Schneider on the successful completion of his PhD. He defended his thesis today with the topic: "Characterization of methyltransferases for the enantioselective synthesis of hexahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indole based natural products".

During his time at IBOC, our sports enthusiast Pascal established the use of methyltransferases, paving the way for many subsequent projects. He always showed himself as a structured team worker, both within the institute and with collaborative partners, which…

November brings new colleagues to our institute again. Philip Lencer will be doing the operational part of his dual studies of applied chemistry with us, while Lars Meerkatz will start his apprenticeship as a chemical lab technician with the institute. The two will primarily support the doctoral students Lisa Böhmer, Marcel Schatton and Sebastian Myllek.

You two, we are very happy to welcome you at our institute and wish you a nice and instructive time.