Nick Wierckx
@nickwierckx
Department leader in Microbial Catalysis @fz_juelich. Professor @HHU_de. Aiming to build microbes that produce useful chemicals from biomass and waste streams.
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https://www.fz-juelich.de/ibg/ibg-1/EN/Research/SystemicMicrobiology/catalysis/catalysis_node.html 13-10-2017 06:00:59
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The ERA CoBioTech video competition is on!! Do you want to see a PET clamshell tray dissolved by enzymes in real time? Do not miss our video and give us a thumbs up!! youtube.com/watch?v=zVI-Ds…
Plastic pollution endangers wild and human life more every day. Can we clean this up? What to do with the waste once collected? With the Ellington,Lynd Group at UT Austin, and Zhang labs, we’ve developed an enzyme that can break down PET plastic: FAST PETase. nature.com/articles/s4158… UT Energy Institute
Happy that this is finally out in mBio: Aminoglycoside antibiotics inhibit phage infection by blocking an early step of the phage infection cycle journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.11… Great team effort of Larissa Kever and Aël Hardy! New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-Host Interaction, DFG public | @[email protected], Forschungszentrum Jülich | @[email protected], Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
SAVE THE DATE❗ 🗓 August 22nd to 26th 2022 Our project coordinator Cristiano Varrone from Aalborg University will host the International Engineering PhD summer school 2022 in August! Find the agenda and more information about the summer school here 👇 bit.ly/UpliftSummerSc…
Thanks Bio-Mi Sustainable Solutions for the hospitality and organization of the UPLIFT-PLASTICS meeting. Super interesting site visit!
Celebrating 10+1 years of the iAMB institute of Lars M. Blank with thought-provoking talks from Víctor de Lorenzo and many others. Congratulations Lars for the many exciting achievements from the last decade. Looking forward to see what the future holds!
Microbial Biotech fans: Sign up for #MB8.0! tinyurl.com/jsadv8rf We have great talks on plastic degradation, Algae engineering, and sustainable food systems by Nick Wierckx Deep Branch, Sarah D’Adamo, and others. Please RT! SynBioNL GBBResearch KNCV
Off to Forschungszentrum Jülich | @[email protected] for the #Juelich #Biotech #Day! Looking forward to catch-up w/Nick Wierckx Lars M. Blank Anita Loeschcke & other colleagues there!
Shane Kenny was a dear colleague and friend who left us way too soon. I'm honored to be invited by Kevin O'Connor and Tanja Narancic to give a memorial lecture on February 22 at 13:45 at University College Dublin in his honor.
Welcome to twitter SFB MibiNet ! Looking forward to exciting research on "Microbial Networking - from organelles to cross-kingdom communities". DFG public | @[email protected], Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Forschungszentrum Jülich | @[email protected]
📢 reminder that BiOrbic, Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre and UCD SBBS will be hosting the annual Shane Kenny memorial #biotechnology lecture. Our partner Nick Wierckx will be giving the in-person presentation on "closing cycles in the #plastic #bioeconomy". All are welcome! 🗓️ 22 Feb 12:45
