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.  

Cannabinoid-like compounds in Radula marginata (Article in "Frontiers in Plant Science")

14.05.2018 - One of our side projects in the Cannabis field. Thanks to good cooperation partners, we were able to have a closer look on the transcriptome of the cannabinoid producer moss Radula marginata. This is a rare moss in NZ with the extraordinary ability to biosynthesis phenylaryl-type cannabinoids. To the article here.

PhD defense of Bastian Zirpel

02.05.2018 - On Wednesday, 02nd of May Bastian Zirpel defended succesfully his PhD thesis entitled: "Recombinant expression and functional characterization of cannabinoid producing enzymes in Komagataella phaffii ". Congratulations from the whole TB group! Some pictures can be found here.

Emerging Trends in Natural Product Biotechnology

04.04.2018 - On occasion of its 50th anniversary, TU Dortmund University will host a scientific symposium on new developments, recent successes and future trends in Natural Product Biotechnology. The programme will cover a wide range of topics from Systems Biotechnology and Pathway Engineering to Biocatalysis and Orthogonal Biosynthesis. A special focus will be placed on plant-derived natural products. We cordially invite interested researchers and companies from all over the world to join this event! More information can be found here.

Great Participation at Pharma Biotechnology Lecture at TU Lodz

29.01.2018 - Getting closer to pharmaceutics and problems in Pharma Engineering are major topics of the lecture series of Prof. Kayser at TU Lodz (a picture can be seen here). What is Pharma Bioengineering and what makes it special to have a closer look to drugs being made by recombinant microorganisms and mammalian cells? Discussing all concepts and strategies of biotechnology in this important field for engineers was one of the motivations to come again to the TU Lodz. Many thanks to the local organizers Jerzy and Anja Klepcz-Smolka who both made this week possible.