โ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ท BiodeCCodiNNg goes NextGenBiocat โ and Poster Award Alert ๐๐จ!

May 28, 2024 Last week, members of our #BiodeCCodiNNg consortium participated in the 4th #NextGenBiocat symposium and the CC-TOP satellite event in Heraklion, Greece, on the beautiful island of Crete โ the mythological โcradle of Europeโ ๐. In these three days, the โnext genโ of #biocatalysis researchers discussed their latest research and engaged in vivid […]
๐ช๐ธโก๏ธ๐ฌ๐ง Industrial Secondment: DC3 โ Corina ล ljubura โ to Prozomix, UK!

April 26, 2024 With the arrival of April, I moved from Barcelona’s sunny embrace to the brisk and often drizzly climes of Newcastle, England. The old English local wisdom “Neโer cast a clout till May be out” (meaning one shouldn’t shed their winter clothes before June arrives) has become a regular reminder in my day-to-day […]
๐โตBiodeCCodiNNg spotted in Dubrovnik, Croatia – Nikita Pal (DC5) Poster presentation

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! ๐ ๐ป๐ It was so much fun sharing details of #NNzymes with […]
๐ญ๐ทโก๏ธ๐ณ๐ฑ Academic Secondment: DC9 – Lan Julij Zadravec – to Groningen, The Netherlands!

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 […]
๐ณ๐ฑโก๏ธ๐ฆ๐น Academic Secondment: DC1 – Simon Schrรถder – to Graz, Austria!

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 […]
๐โก๏ธ๐ญ First BiodeCCodiNNg Secondment: DC5 – Nikita Pal – to Innophore!

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 โ24. Innophore is based in Graz (Austria) and San Francisco (USA), and they work on developing protein and drug discovery platforms guided by AI. ๐ค๐ง I am looking forward […]
๐ฌ EmPOWERed Gender Equality, Diversity & Mentorship Workshop – February 7th-9th, 2024

February 20, 2024 From February 7th to 9th, #BiodeCCodiNNgโs doctoral candidates were in #Groningen, The Netherlands, for the “๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ/๐๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ & ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ” ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ. ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐ฆโ๐ฆ๐ฉโ๐ฌ 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 […]
๐ณ๐ฑ๐ 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. โจProject Progress […]
Exciting News: BiodeCCodiNNg’s Team is Finally Complete!

January 8, 2024 We are thrilled to announce that the BiodeCCodiNNg Team is finally complete! ๐งฌ๐จโ๐ฌ โ ๐๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐งช Come meet us atย https://biodeccodinng.eu/about-us ๐จโ๐ฌ๐ฉโ๐ฌDCs Simon Schrรถder, Carina Kipp, Lilla Gal, Nikita Pal, Lindelo Mguni, Flora Maria Bindreiter, Suresh Rohan, Lan Julij Zadravec, Corina ล ljubura, Annika Hein. ๐ Supervisors Sandy Schmidt (RUG), Gerrit Poelarends (RUG), Dirk Tischler […]
Enhancing biocatalytic N-N bond formation: BiodeCCodiNNgโs first publication!

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