๐ง ๐ฌ 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.ย ๐ What is MiCon? MiCon (RTG 2341 […]
๐๐ 13 Biocatalysis PhD positions available – join HaloVerse!
November 11, 2025 ๐ 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! ๐ซก๐ For more information, visit their website: https://haloverse.eu HaloVerse recruitment has started! โ We are looking for 13 PhD […]
๐ฉ๐ชโก๏ธ๐ณ๐ฑ Academic Secondment: DC6 โ Suresh Rohan โ to Groningen, The Netherlands! (& PhDversary! ๐)
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.ย The […]
๐๐ค BiodeCCodiNNg at the European Researcherโs Night 2025 in Groningen
October 1, 2025 What a night! On the evening of October 26th, our DCs from the University of Groningen (Simon Schrรถder, Carina Kipp, Annika Hein, Alexander Argyrou) represented #BiodeCCodiNNg at the European Researcherโs Night โ an annual, #Europe-wide event to take science out of the lab and present it to people of all ages curious […]
๐ฅ BiodeCCodiNNg in the Groningen Enzyme Engineering Club! ๐ง
September 12, 2025 Yesterday, our DC1, Simon Schrรถder, 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 […]
๐ฅ Publication alert! ๐ฅ 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 Schrรถder, as well as members from the group of Prof. Dirk Tischler, contributed to this nice #paper on forming novel N-N bond-containing […]
๐ฉ๐ชโก๏ธ๐ณ๐ฑ Academic Secondment: DC8 โ Lindelo Mguni โ to Groningen, Netherlands!ย
February 17, 2025 Moi eem Groningen!! ๐๐พ 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 ๐ฒ, it has been an exciting experience meeting new colleagues […]
๐ฅ Publication alert! ๐ฅ A review on N-N bond-forming enzymesย
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 Schrรถder and Annika Hein, contributed to this nice #review on #NNzymes. Well done! ๐ Read all about it here! #enzymology #biocatalysis #enzyme #biotechnology #BiodeCCodiNNgDNโฏ#mscaโฏ#horizoneuย
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 […]
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 […]