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We are thrilled to report on the overwhelming success of the 3rd Pseudomonas Grassroots Meeting, which recently took place at the Technical University in Munich. This high-profile scientific event, organized by our PhD students Carina Meiners and Marleen Beentjes, brought together early career… [read more]

From 10. September until 13 September, the annual conference of the German Association of General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) took place in Göttingen. Three of our PhD candidates represented SBT at this conference. Carina gave a presentation on her ongoing work on studying metabolic burden and… [read more]

This Friday, we had our annual summer team event. We went to the Starnbergersee and practiced our balance and stamina by exploring the lake on paddle boards. Afterwards, we had lunch together and for those who were still full of energy, there was the opportunity to swim in the lake. All in all, it… [read more]

From 09.07.-13.07., the biannual conference of the Federal European Microbiology Society took place in Hamburg. Katharina and Marleen attended this international microbiology conference and presented their latest work on resource allocation and metabolic burden in Pseudomonas putida. Apart from the… [read more]

This year, we are again participating in the TUM PREP summer program. In the PREP program, students from partner universities of the TUM in North America and England are invited for a summer research stay at the TUM. This year, Xinran Li from Imperial College London will work in our lab as part of… [read more]

On the 30th of June, Die Lehrstuhl-Orientierungs-, Informations- und Forschungs-Tagung (LOIFT) took place in the Mechanical Engineering building. Our chair was also represented and we met and discussed with students from different backgrounds. We hope they now know more about the interdisciplinary… [read more]

From 22.05.-24.05., the annual Forum of the International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE) took place in Raitenhaslach. The theme of the Forum was “Beyond the Doctorate”. As part of the International Project Team called MAMMUT, our PhD students Carina and Marleen participated in… [read more]

From 29.03. until 31.03., the SBT spring seminar took place. At 29.03. we started the day with a hike around the Schliersee. After a bavarian lunch meal we continued with a personal tour through the experience destillery Lantenhammer followed by a small tasting. We stayed at the Alten Wurzhütte at… [read more]

In our group, we work a lot with Pseudomonas putida, a promising host for biotechnology. This year, SBT will organize the 3rd Pseudomonas Grassroots Meeting (09.11.-10.11.), an international meeting which is all about working with bacteria from the Pseudomonas genus. For more information, have a… [read more]

We started the new semester by offering the practical course Applied System Biotechnology for the very first time. In this practical course, the students are asked to cultivate a recombinant bacterial strain (with two different gene constructs for fluorescent proteins) in a 3.6-L bioreactor, record… [read more]