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 […]
๐ณ๐ฑ๐ Mid-Term Meeting in Groningen โ 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. โจProject Progress […]
Enhancing biocatalytic N-N bond formation: BiodeCCodiNNgโs first publication!

December 7, 2023 We are thrilled to announce that Simon Schrรถderโs paper โEnhancing biocatalytical N-N bond formation with the actinobacterial piperazate synthase KtzTโ has been published in Molecular Catalysis! ๐ Congratulations to Simon, his colleagues and his former supervisor Dirk Tischler! ๐ This #paper is the first of many that our #BiodeCCodiNNg researchers will publish […]
BiodeCCodiNNg kicks off!

January 12-13, 2023 Our BiodeCCodiNNg project has started with its kick-off meeting organized in Groningen from the 12th to 13th of January 2023. During the two-days meeting, we had board meetings, exciting discussions between industry and academia on work packages 1, 2 and 3 as well as great โGetting to know the consortiumโ presentations by […]
EUR 2.7M for academia and industry to pave the way to sustainable organic synthesis

With EUR 2.7 million from EUโs Horizon Europeโs programme, University of Groningen has teamed up with 19 other European universities and industries in a project to decode novel reaction chemistries from enzymes that are currently not accessible with the existing biocatalyst portfolio for building important molecules such as precursors for pharmaceuticals. Read full article here: […]
