I am thrilled to announce that our paper on Streptomyces BHETases has just been published in Communications Biology. Thank you to the co-authors for making this possible! Feel free to take a look! doi.org/10.1038/s42003…

careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-PhD… PhD position available at the Evolution of Microbial Chemodiversity Lab.

Our new Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein has launched today! 🎉 Bezos Earth Fund has granted us $30 million to establish the Centre. Together, we will transform our food systems and protect our planet 🌍💚

From preprint to paper: I'm glad to share that our study on the regulation of glycolate metabolism in Paracoccus denitrificans is now published in mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

It was great to attend the #ECB2024 conference in Rotterdam this week, together with Camillo Iacometti, minrui, and Bas van woudenberg. Many thanks to NBV and EFB Biotechnology for organizing this exciting event!

Our new paper reveals a remarkable ability in marine bacteria: they extract methyl groups from algal metabolites, creating a metabolic shortcut that accelerates the shift from lag phase to growth. Expertly led by Martin Sperfeld and Delia Narváez  nature.com/articles/s4156…

A tale of three regulators: in a new study, Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski & colleagues investigated the regulation of glycolate metabolism in the bacterium Paracoccus denitrificans by combining biochemistry, genetics, proteomics, and bioinformatics. Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Super excited to share my main research SYBORG, new in Science Magazine, where I engineered a cell-free system that self-regenerates using building blocks autonomously synthesized from CO2! 🧪🫧 Let me tell you more below 👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Just accepted iScience journal cell.com/iscience/fullt… happy to see Michel Brück's master's project published. Great collaboration with Bork Berghoff and JensGeorg. Check out the article if you are interested in #synthetic small RNAs! Congratulations and many thanks to the whole team.

Uni Oldenburg is starting a genomics facility, and we are looking for a bioinformatician. uol.de/stellen?stelle… The position is initially for 3 years, but there are chances of permanency after the 3 years. Please share!

New paper- Algae impact bacterial HGT! Our latest research, led by Dr. Yemima Duchin-Rapp, reveals that algal exudates boost bacterial conjugation by enhancing bacterial attachment. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Two PhD and a postdoc position are available! Come join me if you are excited about natural product discovery and understanding the roles of secondary metabolites in ecological interactions! 🦠🧪 ➡️ PhD: jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Doctoral-… ➡️ Postdoc: jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdocto…

Adapting plant pathways in yeast is challenging. Together with JuannanZhou, Kirsten van Gelder, Andrew D Hanson Lab, we propose a machine learning pipeline to redesign plant enzymes for yeast, streamlining pathway establishment for #synbio #biotech doi.org/10.1111/1751-7…

To learn about the latest views, disputes and future research directions on the origin of the eukaryotic cell, read our review in nature here: nature.com/articles/s4158… Non-paywalled version here: rdcu.be/dTFrR