Testing novel antimicrobial surfaces in space: Touching Surfaces youtu.be/E2F3_2Iyl8c #DLR #esa #CosmicKiss #health #healthcare #spacemicrobes #antimicrobial #fuwe #aerospace #spaceflight #ISS

Please touch👇 The DLR - English experiment "Touching Surfaces" is a touch array made of different metals & structures. When I leave my fingerprint, I also transfer microorganisms. This helps scientists to develop novel antimicrobial surfaces🦠How will steel, copper & brass perform? 🤔

Bitte berühren 👇 Beim DLR_de-Experiment „Touching Surfaces“ hinterlasse ich meinen Fingerabdruck auf diesen unterschiedlichen Tastflächen & übertrage dabei auch eigene Mikroorganismen🦠 ForscherInnen am Boden können so neuartige anitimikrobielle Oberflächen testen & entwickeln.

A quick question to all colleages dealing with #archaea + #methanogens: what is the best mcrA targeting primer pair, suitable for NGS-amplicon sequencing (up to 400 bp length of product) and spanning broadest diversity of methanogens? Any suggestions are highly welcome. Thanks!!

Um herauszufinden was für Pilze & Bakterien hier noch mit uns leben, haben wir ganz CSI: NY-mäßig einige Abstriche gemacht🦠🔍 Wir analysieren Luft, Wasser, Lärm & vieles mehr auf der International Space Station. So bleiben wir gesund & WissenschaftlerInnen können die Mikroben untersuchen.

(1/3) Your Friday moment of zen: A beautiful new microscopic image from ARCHIVED - Curiosity Rover shows teeny, tiny delicate structures that formed by mineral precipitating from water. (Penny approximately for scale added me) mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/102…

Spaceflight Virology: What Do We Know about Viral Threats in the Spaceflight Environment?… check out here: liebertpub.com/doi/epub/10.10…

Thrilled to share that I passed my comprehensive exams today and I am now a PhD candidate! 💫

I am delighted to share our work “A prebiotically plausible scenario of an RNA-peptide world” published in nature today. The Carell Group Humboldt-Stiftung nature.com/articles/s4158…

Auf der #ILA2022 trifft Matthias Maurer auf die DLR-Biologinnen Katharina Siems & Carolin Krämer, deren Experiment „Touching Surfaces“ der ESA auf Deutsch-Astronaut auf seiner Mission #CosmicKiss in Schwerelosigkeit durchgeführt hat🦠🧑‍🚀 dlr.de/content/de/art…

Our last paper from my PhD research is finally out!! Only took 2 years, and 2 submissions 😂 We checked #aspergillusniger colony #biofilms under simulated #microgravity! And got amazing pictures of #mold colonies at the microscope! Have a read here: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

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Surprise virtual cameo from “number 1” :-) at #ASGSR2022 #StarTrekTNG

🥳 The microbe of the year 2023: Bacillus subtilis The all-rounder among bacteria is beneficial to health, its enzymes are used in laundry and its spores can even heal cracks in concrete! 😎 Find out more about the Microbe of the Year here: rb.gy/qzbol9 🧫🧬🔬

#Biofilms an ongoing study from European Space Agency (Ralf Moeller Katharina S. ) examines formation of aggregations of microorganisms and tests the antimicrobial properties of different metal surfaces in #spaceflight. Flies to the #ISS on SpaceX CRS-27 nasa.gov/mission_pages/…

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Et c'est déjà la fin de notre deuxième semaine de formation où il fut question de radiations cosmiques💫 et de biologie moléculaire⚛️, entre autres🙂. On attend la suite (et le weekend 😀) avec impatience !

Excited for my new role as Editor-in-Chief of Gravitational and Space Research, the publication for the ASGSR. Free open access! Consider submitting your papers! NASA GeneLab UF Materials Science | Nuclear Engineering Program Cover: "Space slime" by Siems (DLR) and Schaudinn (RKI) sciendo.com/journal/GSR Please RT

✨️ New publication on the identification of staphyloxanthin in Staphylococcus capitis subsp. capitis frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Ralf Moeller Oliver Schwengers 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦

Multifactorial resistance of Bacillus subtilis spores to low-pressure plasma sterilization AppEnvMicro journal from Ralf Moeller at DLR - English with Peter Setlow journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…