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Last week our internal retreat of this year took place - not as usual in the High Fens, but very close by, on the Sofienhöhe. After the many months we all had to spend more or less isolated, we urgently wanted to strengthen the team feeling again. For this purpose, the Orga team planned a 10 km hike, which was loosened up by some team games. The games were intended to boost cooperation and communication within the group. After each successful game, the team received a mysterious object as a reward. The collected prizes only made sense in…

In the past two years, a number of courses were converted to online modules at short notice. This format was new for all of us, but with a lot of effort we were able to offer exciting seminars to our students. The teaching award nomination 2021 for Thomas Classen (Chemistry for medical students) and Jörg Pietruszka (Enzyme Technology I) makes us even more happy and incredibly proud. We would like to thank all contributors and of course the students! Without your commitment and flexibility, the last two years would not have been possible.

We are very pleased to welcome this year's RISE student Johnny Nguyen to the institute. The native Canadian will spend the next three months working together with our PhD student Cindy Zimmermann in the field of natural product synthesis. We wish them both the best of success and a lot of fun working together!

We are looking forward to the module start in September.

The Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry introduces itself in this short video. Feel free to click on the image to access the video.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the doctoral students for their participation in this film. That was a really great input.

Today we would like to congratulate our dear colleague Marvin Mantel on the extremely successful completion of his doctorate. As expected, he was able to convince all examiners of his merits with ease in his defence. At the same time as his graduation, Marvin is also leaving the IBOC. Not only in his function as lab manager for lab 2004 he was always helpful and supported many colleagues with his excellent ideas. We will also miss his active participation in the seminar and cheminar, and especially his colourful presentations.

Marvin pushed…

We are very pleased to announce two publications from the pen of Pascal Schneider. We are particularly proud of his publication in Angewandte Chemie (Int. Ed.), where he was able to publish his extensive results on the SAM-dependent methyltransferase PsmD and the biocatalytic synthesis of bioactive pyrroloindoles (including physostigmine) optimised by means of design-of-experiment. Another access to physostigmine was achieved in cooperation with Lea Winand from the TU Dortmund. Using a mutasynthesis approach in Myxococcus xanthus, various…

The entire Research Centre mourns the death of Board Member Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, who passed away last week after a serious illness. We are also very deeply saddened by this news and would like to express our sincere condolences to his family and friends. We will always remember our constructive and pleasant cooperation with Prof. Bolt with great pleasure.

From 19 to 22 July, the online version of Biotrans 2021 took place, organised by Karl-Franzens University Graz. In addition to exciting lectures, posters and pitches, a virtual tour of charming Graz was offered. The IBOC was also well represented at Biotrans 2021. Pascal Schneider had the opportunity to present his project in a talk, Alex Fejzagic faced the professional audience with his video pitch and Diana Amariei, Martin Wäscher and Christina Albrecht were each allowed to present a poster. Thank you very much for representing our institute…

At BioTrans 2021, Alexander Fejzagic had the opportunity to give a virtual poster pitch. Thank you for your commitment Alex. We would also like to thank our colleagues from Graz for organising such a successful conference.