🇪🇸➡️🇳🇱 Academic Secondment: DC3 – Corina Šljubura – to Groningen, The Netherlands! (& PhDversary! 🎉)
December 15, 2025 Stepping into the third year of my #PhD feels both surreal and exciting. Working within the BiodeCCodiNNg Doctoral Network has pushed me beyond my comfort zone and helped me grow-scientifically and personally in many ways. Over the past year, I have worked on the development of artificial metalloenzymes for C–C bond formation, […]
🧠💬 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 […]
🇩🇪➡️🇳🇱 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 […]