🔎🇭🇷 Demonstrating the fascinating world of enzymes to younger generations 👶
May 27, 2025 Last month, Lan Julij Zadravec and colleagues from the Department of Reaction engineering and Catalysis at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology had the wonderful opportunity to present the principles of biocatalysis to younger generations and hopefully inspire them to pursue their own studies in this field. Our […]
🔥 Publication alert! 🔥 Accessing N-N heterocycles using promiscuous NNzymes
May 12, 2025 Congratulations to our team around Prof. Sandy Schmidt and her student Yongxin Li from the University of Groningen on another great #publication that just moved online! Our #BiodeCCodiNNg DC1, Simon Schröder, as well as members from the group of Prof. Dirk Tischler, contributed to this nice #paper on forming novel N-N bond-containing […]
🇳🇱➡️🇩🇪 Academic Secondment: DC2 – Carina Kipp – to Göttingen, Germany!
May 2, 2025 Since the start of March, I’ve been at the University of Göttingen for a three-month research stay – my first #secondment! Göttingen’s vibrant scientific community provides an ideal environment to broaden my research capabilities and engage in meaningful collaborations. Together with Suresh Rohan and under the mentorship of Prof. Kai Tittmann, we […]
💬🇦🇹 DocDays2025: Research, Collaboration & Community at TU Graz and Uni Graz
April 28, 2025 Last week, we wrapped up an incredible experience at #DocDays2025, a conference dedicated to showcasing the work and journeys of doctoral students from TU Graz and Uni Graz! 🎓✨ I had the pleasure of presenting my own research and was also part of the organizing team behind this event. Being on both […]
🚀🇩🇪 BiodeCCodiNNg goes AmineBioCat 6.0 – Posters, Presentations, Prizes 🏆🚨!
April 16, 2025 A delegation from the BiodeCCodiNNg consortium recently had a fantastic time at the #AmineBioCat 6.0 conference in #Aachen, Germany! The event was impressively organized by one of our PIs, Prof. Dörte Rother, with Flora Bindreiter – one of our DCs – as part of the organization team. 👏 We were proud to […]
🚀 BiodeCCodiNNg Consortium Meeting in Zagreb, Croatia🚀
March 17, 2025 On February 20-21, the #BiodeCCodiNNg consortium gathered for its second in-person meeting—an opportunity to reflect on progress, share insights, and make plans for the future! In the first part of the meeting, the project coordination team reviewed the status of the project and outlined the matters that need to be handled in […]
🔬 Training Event 🚀🇭🇷 – Process Engineering School in Zagreb – February 17th-19th
March 10, 2025 Between February 17-19, the #BiodeCCodiNNg consortium hosted a Process Engineering Workshop at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology of the University of Zagreb. In collaboration with our academic and industrial partners, our DCs… ✅ Attended expert-led lectures by PIs from the BiodeCCodiNNg network (Zvjezdana Findrik Blazevic, Dirk Tischler, Dörte Rother) and […]
🇩🇪➡️🇳🇱 Academic Secondment: DC8 – Lindelo Mguni – to Groningen, Netherlands!
February 17, 2025 Moi eem Groningen!! 👋🏾 As I kick off the year, I find myself in Groningen, a vibrant center of architectural design and beauty, for my first #secondment at RUG. Despite the strong winds and the constant need to watch out for bicycles 🚲, it has been an exciting experience meeting new colleagues […]
🇳🇱➡️🇦🇹 Academic Secondment: DC4 – Annika Hein – to Graz, Austria! (& PhDversary! 🎉)
February 10, 2025 A year has passed since I traded the Baltic Sea coast for the North Sea coast and started my time as a PhD student in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands! I joined the #EuropeanUnion doctoral network BiodeCCodiNNg with nine other young researchers. My research is centered around the discovery and engineering […]
🌟 A Classroom Conversation about Science 🌍
January 31, 2025 Last week, I had the chance to deliver a lecture at a high school in Leibnitz, Austria. 🎓 Connecting with students and introducing them to the world of biochemistry was a fulfilling experience. My presentation, “Decoding Life: From DNA to Proteins,” covered how we study proteins and their role in life processes. […]