🇩🇪➡️🇩🇪 Academic Secondment: DC10 – Flora Maria Bindreiter – to Bochum, Germany!
February 23, 2026 Greetings from my very first #secondment! Being at a different lab introduced me to a different set of methods, focusing on the production of #NMOs (nitrogen-hydroxylating #monooxygenases). Carolin Schaefer, who you can see in the picture, introduced me to the respective lab workflows. Thank you so much, Carolin! For the remaining time, we will proceed to testing NMOs […]
🧠💬 Open Minds, Open Science: BiodeCCodiNNg & MiCon Unite at RUB
November 24, 2025 Last week, PhD candidates from the BiodeCCodiNNg Doctoral Network and the MiCon Research Training Group came together for a two-day workshop dedicated to communication, open science, and scientific exchange. Bringing together two innovative training programs created the perfect environment for learning, collaboration, and new connections. 🔍 What is MiCon? MiCon (RTG 2341 […]
🎓🔎 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 […]
🚀 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 […]
🔥 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 […]
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 […]
🔥 Hot news! 🔥 New review on metal-independent formate dehydrogenases!
August 10, 2023 Congratulations to our team from Ruhr University Bochum (Dirk Tischler‘s group) on another great piece of work! This latest publication was co-authored by our DC8, Lindelo Mguni. Well done! 🎉 Read all about it here! #enzymology #biocatalysis #proteinengineering #enzyme #oxidoreductase #cofactor #cosubstrate #biotechnology #BiodeCCodiNNgDN #msca #horizoneu
🔬 EmPOWERed Gender Equality, Diversity & Mentorship Workshop – February 7th-9th, 2024
February 20, 2024 From February 7th to 9th, #BiodeCCodiNNg’s doctoral candidates were in #Groningen, The Netherlands, for the “𝐄𝐦𝐏𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲/𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 & 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩” 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩. 👨👩👦👦👩🔬 The first day, the DCs counted on insightful discussions with Dörte Rother, Dirk Tischler, and Sandy Schmidt on working-life balance and strategies to harmonize family life and a career in […]
Biotechnology: Study Award for a New Building Block in the Drug Toolbox
Simon Schröder 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