Congratulations to Dr Iuliana Nita, [DTU, Bioengineering @cemist.bsky.social] on a successful PhD defense (& supervisor: Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia, co-supervosors: Arnaud Dechesne, Yannick Brijs). It was a pleasure to be on your assessment committee with @lonegram.bsky.social & Andreas Schramm (Aarhus)🇩🇰

PhD defence
On Friday 14 March at 14:00, Rune Overlund Stannius will defend his PhD thesis: Sociomicrobiology of Secondary Metabolites

Thanks to
@dg.dk Danmarks Grundforskningsfond / The Danish National Research Foundation

Streptomyces lonegramiae growing on agar plate Thanks to @matissmaleckis.bsky.social, @lingding.bsky.social, @tuesparholt.bsky.social, and @Tilmann Weber @dg.dk @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social

Christmas @CeMiSt: Streptomyces lonegramiae arrived!
A picky strain substratewise, 11½ Mbp genome & 45 biosynthetic gene clusters (antiSMASH).
Excited to discover more!
Thanks @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social @matissmaleckis.bsky.social @lingding.bsky.social @tuesparholt.bsky.social @Tilmann Weber
@dg.dk

More to come: @cemist.bsky.social colleagues are currently closing the genome, mining it and looking into its chemistry

To honour Lone Gram’s significant contributions to microbial secondary metabolite research, DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces lonegramiae (DSM 41529) after her.
Fun Fact: Gram's great-grandfather developed the Gram stain 😉

#herstory #HonoringWomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #microbiology

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