Author: biodeccodinng

๐Ÿ‘€โ›ต๐๐ข๐จ๐๐ž๐‚๐‚๐จ๐๐ข๐ง๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐›๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ง๐ข๐ค, ๐‚๐ซ๐จ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐š – ๐๐ข๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐š ๐๐š๐ฅ (๐ƒ๐‚5) ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐งย 

April 16, 2024 Last week, I participated in the ‘Hot Topics in Contemporary Crystallography 6’, in Dubrovnik, Croatia. There I got the chance to attend a great workshop with practical and theoretical sessions on crystallography, data analysis, and database resources, and presenting on a #Postersession! ๐Ÿ’Ž ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“œ It was so much fun sharing details of #NNzymes with […]

๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ทโžก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐€๐œ๐š๐๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐’๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ: ๐ƒ๐‚9 โ€“ ๐‹๐š๐ง ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฃ ๐™๐š๐๐ซ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐œ โ€“ ๐ญ๐จ ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ง, ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐๐ฌ!

March 24, 2024 At the start of March, I traveled from my home university University of Zagreb Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology to #Groningen in the Netherlands, where I began my three-month-long academic secondment. I joined the team of Dr. Sandy Schmidt and my DC colleagues Carina Kipp and Annika Hein at the University […]

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑโžก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น ๐€๐œ๐š๐๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐’๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ: ๐ƒ๐‚1 โ€“ ๐’๐ข๐ฆ๐จ๐ง ๐’๐œ๐ก๐ซรถ๐๐ž๐ซ โ€“ ๐ญ๐จ ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ณ, ๐€๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐š!

March 12, 2024 Mahlzeit, Graz!  I recently jumped on a train that took me from my home university in Groningen all the way to the Karl-Franzens-Universitรคt Graz in Austria, where I will stay for the next three months as part of my first secondment. Still adapting to the drastic change in topology compared to the […]

๐ŸŽ“โžก๏ธ๐Ÿญ ๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐จ๐๐ž๐‚๐‚๐จ๐๐ข๐๐๐  ๐’๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ: ๐ƒ๐‚5 – ๐๐ข๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐š ๐๐š๐ฅ – ๐ญ๐จ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ž!

February 26, 2024 Hello again! As part of my PhD program at BiodeCCodiNNg, I just started my Industrial Secondment at Innophore on the 1st of February โ€™24. Innophore is based in Graz (Austria) and San Francisco (USA), and they work on developing protein and drug discovery platforms guided by AI. ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿง  I am looking forward […]

๐Ÿ”ฌ ๐„๐ฆ๐๐Ž๐–๐„๐‘๐ž๐ ๐†๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐„๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ & ๐Œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ โ€“ ๐…๐ž๐›๐ซ๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ 7๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐จ 9๐ญ๐ก, 2024

February 20, 2024 From February 7th to 9th, #BiodeCCodiNNgโ€™s doctoral candidates were in #Groningen, The Netherlands, for the “๐„๐ฆ๐๐Ž๐–๐„๐‘๐ž๐ ๐†๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐„๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ/๐ƒ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ & ๐Œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ” ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ. ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ‘ฆโ€๐Ÿ‘ฆ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ The first day, the DCs counted on insightful discussions with Dรถrte Rother, Dirk Tischler, and Sandy Schmidt on working-life balance and strategies to harmonize family life and a career in […]

๐ŸŒ Event: Mid-Term Meeting in Groningen โ€“ February 5th-6th, 2024

February 16, 2024 Last week marked a significant milestone as we gathered in #Groningen for the Mid-Term Meeting with the REA. In this remarkable event, our team of Doctoral Candidates (DCs), Supervisors, and industrial partners came together in person for the first time to discuss the latest updates of the BiodeCCodiNNg Doctoral Network. โœจProject Progress […]

Today in the Meet the DCs seriesโ€ฆ Annika Hein!

January 30, 2024 Today in the Meet the DCs seriesโ€ฆ Annika Hein! Hello everybody! Annika here, the newest member of the BiodeCCodiNNg Doctoral Network. In December 2023, I traded the German Baltic Sea for the Dutch North Sea when I moved from Greifswald to Groningen to start a new chapter in my life. I am still […]

Exciting News: BiodeCCodiNNg’s Team is Finally Complete!

January 8, 2024 We are thrilled to announce that the BiodeCCodiNNg Team is finally complete! ๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ โš— ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿงช Come meet us atย https://biodeccodinng.eu/about-us ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌDCs Simon Schrรถder, Carina Kipp, Lilla Gal, Nikita Pal, Lindelo Mguni, Flora Maria Bindreiter, Suresh Rohan, Lan Julij Zadravec, Corina ล ljubura, Annika Hein. ๐Ÿ› Supervisors Sandy Schmidt (RUG), Gerrit Poelarends (RUG), Dirk Tischler […]

Biotechnology: Study Award for a New Building Block in the Drug Toolbox

Simon Schrรถder has worked out how enzymes can be used to more easily form the desired bond between two nitrogen atoms. The building blocks for new drugs that help fight bacteria that are resistant to known antibiotics, for example, should be as cost-effective and environmentally friendly as possible. Read full article here: https://news.rub.de/english/2022-05-06-funding-new-doctoral-network-biology

Enhancing biocatalytic N-N bond formation: BiodeCCodiNNgโ€™s first publication!

December 7, 2023 We are thrilled to announce that Simon Schrรถderโ€™s paper โ€œEnhancing biocatalytical N-N bond formation with the actinobacterial piperazate synthase KtzTโ€ has been published in Molecular Catalysis! ๐Ÿ™Œ Congratulations to Simon, his colleagues and his former supervisor Dirk Tischler! ๐Ÿ‘ This #paper is the first of many that our #BiodeCCodiNNg researchers will publish […]