PhD defense of Julia Schachtsiek

07.10.2019 - On Monday, 07th of October Julia Schachtsiek defended succesfully her PhD thesis entitled: "Establishment and development of methods for genetic modifications in plants and their effect on the metabolism". Congratulations from the whole TB group! Some pictures here.

New article "Best Practice in Research" in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology

01.10.2019 - In a common action of all editors in chief of the most important global scientific papers in the field of phytopharmacology, phytochemistry and pharmaceutical biology, we want to express our concern and demands for good scientific publishing. In the paper “Best practice in research – overcoming common challenges in phytopharmacological research” as published these days, all editors define common standards for publishing important scientific data to the community. As editor in chief of Planta Medica I am honored to express the view of my journal and to contribute to this essential discussion how to keep good publishing practice alive and to develop further in a world of easy access to non peer reviewed online media.

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67th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Naturla Product Research (GA)

09.09.2019 - The Kayser research group was highly active at the GA meeting 2019 in Innsbruck, Austria from 1st - 5th of September. Thanet Pitakbut presented his recent results on his research about endophytes in Maytenus heterophylla. Tajammul Hussain presented his work from his PhD project on transcriptomic analysis of Radula marginata. Read more here.

PhD defense of Tajammul Hussain

19.06.2019 - Tajammul Hussain defended succesfully his PhD thesis entitled: "Transcriptomic analysis of Radula marginata Taylor for identification of key genes in the biosynthesis of cannabinoid-like compounds" on Wednesday, 19th of June 2019. Congratulations from the whole TB group! More pictures here.

PhD defense of Laura Kohnen

13.06.2019 - On Thursday, 13th of June Laura Kohnen defended succesfully her PhD thesis entitled: "Molecular biological elucidation of late tropane alkaloid biosynthesis". Congratulations from the whole TB group! More pictures here.

PhD defense of Hanan Y. Aati

05.12.2018 - Hanan Aati defended succesfully her PhD thesis entitled "Phytochemical and biological investigation of Jatropha pelargoniifolia roots native to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, 5th of December. Congratulations from the whole TB group and all the best in her future!

Friederike Degenhardt defended succesfully her PhD thesis

10.10.2018 - On Tuesday, 9th of October, Friederike Degenhardt defended succesfully her PhD thesis entitled: "Evaluation of c-prenylating enzymes for the heterologous biosynthesis of cannbigerolic acid". Read more here.

Emerging Trends in Natural Product Biotechnology

24.09.2018 - The biotechnology of secondary natural product plays a more and more important role in drug and gene discovery as well in pharmaceutical bioengineering. The symposium Emerging Trends in Natural Product Biotechnology held at TU Dortmund University from 20th to 21st September 2018 gave a forum for intensive discussions and talks on various topics like natural product biosynthesis, pathway design, metabolic engineering and biocatalysis. Read more here and of on the website of the biocenter..

66^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Medicinal Plants and Natural Product Research

29.08.2018 - Prof. Kayser presented latest results on localisation and spatial resolution of scopolamine trafficking in Duboisia myopoides R.Br. at the 66^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Medicinal Plants and Natural Product Research in Shanghai (25^th - 29^th of September 2018). Read more here.

Congratulations to Sara Shohdy Thabit Ekladious

01.08.2018 - She received on July 23^rd 2018 the doctor degree at the German University Cairo after defending her thesis "Evaluating the effects of secondary metabolites from Cassia fistula and Styphnolobium japonicum in increasing stress resistance and neuroprotection using Caenorhabditis elegans and mouse models" and work in an excellent way. It was a pleasure to be in the committee. We wish all the best for the future.

Welcome Africa!

01.08.2018 - This is not only the title of the DAAD programme TU Dortmund is participating organized by Prof. Dr. Dr. Spiteller (INFU). Prof. Kayser took the oppoortunity to give lectures on Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Natural Product Biotechnology at the Egerton University in Kenya. Read more.

Coming soon to a lab near you? Genetically modified cannabis

23.07.2018 - In an interview in Nature (Vol 559 12.7.2018) Prof. Oliver Kayser comment on new sources of cannabis compounds for research. To the article here.