🎓🔎 13 Biocatalysis PhD positions available – join HaloVerse!

November 11, 2025 🚀 Godspeed to our sister-consortium HaloVerse MSCA-DN, coordinated also by #BiodeCCodiNNg‘s coordinator, Prof. Sandy Schmidt and one of our PIs, Prof. Dirk Tischler. We wish you a successful launch into biocatalytic worlds unknown! 🫡🌌 For more information, visit their website: https://haloverse.eu HaloVerse recruitment has started! – We are looking for 13 PhD […]
🏫🎒 Catalyzing future generations’ Enzyme Enthusiasm at RWTH Aachen!

November 10, 2025 The next generation of students is excited about biotechnology! At RWTH Aachen’s “Erstiwoche” (introductory week for first semester students) and RWTH “Tag der Biologie” (day of biology; an information day for school children), starting students and those curious learned why #enzymes are so relevant in drug manufacturing, and why we are investigating new […]
🇩🇪➡️🇪🇸🏭 Industrial Secondment: DC6 – Suresh Rohan – to Barcelona, Spain!

November 4, 2025 Hello from sunny Barcelona! ☀️ Not long after returning to Göttingen from my previous #secondment, it was already time to pack my bags again — this time for my industrial secondment at Zymvol Biomodeling. Here, I’m collaborating with Ferran Sancho and Mahdi Hassankalhori to explore the dynamics of my enzymatic system using simulations. I have already begun analyzing the trajectories from […]
🗓️ Save the Date: BiodeCCodiNNg × NextGenBiocat 2026!

October 20, 2025 We’re delighted to announce that BiodeCCodiNNg is partnering with the 6th NextGenBiocat 2026 (June 10-11 2026) for a special satellite event (June 12) dedicated to enzyme discovery, protein engineering, and applied biocatalysis. This collaboration will highlight the latest research from our Doctoral Candidates through poster and oral presentations while fostering connections across […]
🇩🇪➡️🇳🇱 Academic Secondment: DC6 – Suresh Rohan – to Groningen, The Netherlands! (& PhDversary! 🎉)

October 17, 2025 I spent the summer in the beautiful city of Groningen, where I worked for a couple of months on structure-inspired directed evolution of enzymes for carboligation reactions. It was a really fruitful experience working under the supervision of Prof. Gerrit Poelarends and in close collaboration with Veronika Chadimova and Carina Kipp. The […]
🇳🇱➡️🇸🇪🏭 Industrial Secondment: DC1 – Simon Schröder – to AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden!

October 15, 2025 God morgon, Sverige! My industrial #secondment recently began, and I got to pack up my things for the third time in my project. This time I’ll be staying in Gothenburg until the end of the year to work at AstraZeneca R&D as part of Prof. Martin Hayes’ team. I am excited to […]
🧑💻 BiodeCCodiNNg holds 3rd online consortium meeting!

October 13, 2025 As #BiodeCCodiNNg is moving into its final year, our doctoral network held its third online consortium meeting last week (8-9 October 2025) between all our DCs, PIs, and industrial partners. In the first part, our DCs presented the excellent progress they have made in their research, which was followed by productive and insightful […]
🌃🤖 BiodeCCodiNNg at the European Researcher’s Night 2025 in Groningen

October 1, 2025 What a night! On the evening of October 26th, our DCs from the University of Groningen (Simon Schröder, Carina Kipp, Annika Hein, Alexander Argyrou) represented #BiodeCCodiNNg at the European Researcher’s Night – an annual, #Europe-wide event to take science out of the lab and present it to people of all ages curious […]
🇭🇷🗨️ BiodeCCodiNNg goes to 29HSKIKI!

September 22, 2025 From the 2nd to the 5th of September, I had the wonderful opportunity to present my research at the 29th Croatian Meeting of Chemists and Chemical Engineers (29HSKIKI) in Split, Croatia. The #conference was skillfully organized by the Croatian Chemical Society and the Croatian Society of Chemical Engineers and brought together many […]
🚀 Publication Alert – A versatile N-hydroxylating Monooxygenase from Thermocrispum agreste

September 15, 2025 We are proud to share that Prof. Dirk Tischler has recently published a paper with his student Dr. Artur Maier, who recently finished his PhD. Our #BiodeCCodiNNg DC8, Lindelo Mguni contributed to the paper which is now available online and shares the insights on the N-hydroxylating monooxygenase from Thermocrispum agreste. Glück auf […]
