🇩🇪➡️🇳🇱 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 […]
🌃🤖 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 […]
🔥 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 […]
🇩🇪➡️🇳🇱 Academic Secondment: DC8 – Lindelo Mguni – to Groningen, Netherlands!
February 17, 2025 Moi eem Groningen!! 👋🏾 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 🚲, it has been an exciting experience meeting new colleagues […]
🔥 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
🇭🇷➡️🇳🇱 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 […]
🔬 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 […]
🇳🇱🌐 Mid-Term Meeting in Groningen – 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. ✨Project Progress […]
Enhancing biocatalytic N-N bond formation: BiodeCCodiNNg’s first publication!
December 7, 2023 We are thrilled to announce that Simon Schröder’s paper “Enhancing biocatalytical N-N bond formation with the actinobacterial piperazate synthase KtzT” has been published in Molecular Catalysis! 🙌 Congratulations to Simon, his colleagues and his former supervisor Dirk Tischler! 👏 This #paper is the first of many that our #BiodeCCodiNNg researchers will publish […]