Light-driven injection
Bacteria like Salmonella or Yersinia use molecular synringes for injecting proteins into the host cell. Our research team led by Andreas Diepold has now coupled the system with a light-dependent molecular switch.This opens up new possibilities for research and medical therapy.
Hidden Talents
Formic acid plays a central role in the metabolic pathway developed by a team of researchers in our Biochemistry and Synthetic Metabolism Department. A well-known enzyme in a new combination enables the environmentally friendly production of chemical raw materials.
Photosynthesis in a droplet
A team of researchers led by Tobias Erb has developed a platform for the automatic production of "artificial chloroplasts" that are able to bind the greenhouse gas CO2 using light energy. The journal "Science" reports on their findings in its latest issue.
Professor Regine Kahmann elected as foreign member of the Royal Society
Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, said: “While election to the Fellowship is a recognition of exceptional individual contributions to the sciences, it is also a network of expertise that can be drawn on to address issues of societal and global significance."
And the winner is...Myxococcus xanthus!
The model organism of our Department of Ecophysiology is quite something special. The Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) chose the bacterium as the "Microbe of the Year 2020".
