🇳🇱➡️🇸🇪🏭 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 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 in the Groningen Enzyme Engineering Club! 🔧
September 12, 2025 Yesterday, our DC1, Simon Schröder, presented an overview of his project at the 4th meeting of the Groningen Enzyme Engineering Club (GEEC); a consortium of four different research institutes from #Groningen that meets to exchange expertise and spark #collaborations between the different faculties in the city. Simon gave a presentation on his […]
🎉 PhDversary! Annual update – DC1 – Simon Schröder ✨
July 1, 2025 Can’t believe it has been two years since starting my #PhD at the University of Groningen. For me, this now marks the halfway point of my studies, which is exciting and frightening at the same time. The recent year of this journey has been quite eventful. I was able to attend workshops […]
🔥 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 […]
🚀🇩🇪 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 at AdvancesChemBio 🧪🧫📈!
January 24, 2024 This week, our BiodeCCodiNNg Doctoral Network was represented at the Advances in Chemical Biology 2025 conference in Frankfurt am Main, Germany by Simon Schröder (DC01). In two intense days of scientific exchange, organized and hosted by DECHEMA, chemists, biologists, biochemists from academia and industry met to present their recent advances in more than […]
🔥 Publication alert! 🔥 A review on N-N bond-forming enzymes
January 13, 2023 We congratulate our team around Sandy Schmidt from the University of Groningen on another great #publication! Our BiodeCCodiNNg DCs 1 and 4, Simon Schröder and Annika Hein, contributed to this nice #review on #NNzymes. Well done! 🎉 Read all about it here! #enzymology #biocatalysis #enzyme #biotechnology #BiodeCCodiNNgDN #msca #horizoneu
Networking: The Bavarian Chemistry Cluster visits BiodeCCodiNNg! 🏔️🧪
October 24, 2024 On October 24th, we hosted a delegation from the Bavarian Chemistry Cluster (Chemie-Cluster Bayern GmbH) in our department at Ruhr-University Bochum, including their director Dr. Patrick Prühs. During the #public #networking event, we presented our team and current projects (by Dirk Tischler) within the EU-funded Doctoral Network #BiodeCCodiNNg. Here, Lindelo Mguni (the MBT […]
🇳🇱🔄🇩🇪 Academic Secondment: DC1 – Simon Schröder – back to Bochum, Germany!
October 15, 2024 Bochum, ich häng’ an dir! My second academic #secondment brings me back for the rest of the year to the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, where I previously did both my bachelor’s and master’s studies. Moving back into my old office, I was welcomed by my former colleagues with open arms. It is […]