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"There isn't one 'single right way' for a career - and it doesn’t have to be a straight line" Maren Nattermann, Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, on Marjory Stephenson (1885–1948): pioneer of chemical microbiology, whose work on bacterial metabolic...

"My motto is: just do it!" We love this interview w/ Maren Nattermann, Research Group Leader @ Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, on Marjory Stephenson (1885–1948), pioneer of chemical microbiology as well as her own path into science www.mpg.de/26210626/mar... #IWD2026

In a joint appointment with the University of Halle we are looking for a Department Head in Chemistry of Natural Products and Bioactives. This is a unique opportunity to work as a chemist in a plant biology institute. Interested? Apply here: berufungsportal.uni-halle.de

Bee-hunting beetles are the first animals known to fake the smell of flowers Study of parasitic blister beetles reveals a new form of chemical deception

How nature borrows ideas from nature. Ahh... beautiful work from Ryan Alam, a colleague and a dear friend of mine :)

Bee-hunting beetles are the first animals known to fake the smell of flowers | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

New Article: "Elucidation of gene clusters underlying withanolide biosynthesis in ashwagandha through yeast metabolic engineering" rdcu.be/e14YH

4 cyt. P450s, 1 dehydrogenase, 1 sulfotransferase build core scaffold of products with neurological/anti-cancer properties.

New genomic techniques: Council and Parliament strike deal to boost the competitiveness and sustainability of our food systems Council and Parliament reach provisional deal on a set of rules for new genomic techniques, aiming to improve the competitiveness of European agriculture and support the sustainability of our food sys...

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Modular in vivo engineering of the reductive methylaspartate cycles for synthetic CO2 fixation Biological carbon fixation is currently limited to seven naturally occurring pathways. Synthetic carbon fixation pathways have the potential to surpass aerobic natural pathways in efficiency, but none...

Newest preprint from our lab: a new family of promising synthetic CO2 fixation cycles that may outcompete the Calvin cycle and that Vittorio Rainaldi realized to a great extent in E. coli! Up to 11 heterologous enzymes in a cascade supporting CO2 fixation & growth! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New OA Article: "A modular high-throughput approach for advancing synthetic biology in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas" rdcu.be/eOdZP

Modular-cloning-based platform for high-throughput chloroplast engineering in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

Elucidation of gene clusters underlying withanolide biosynthesis in ashwagandha through yeast metabolic engineering Withanolides are medicinally relevant steroidal lactones produced by Withania somnifera (ashwagandha) amongst other Solanaceae family plants. However, the biosynthetic pathway to withanolides is large...

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