Microbial Superheros - how bacterial enzymes can change our world
Public talk (in German language)
- Date: Feb 11, 2025
- Time: 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Location: Elisabethschule Marburg

Dr Johannes Rebelein is working with a bio-catalyst which accomplishes one of the most difficult chemical tasks in nature: the conversion of elemental nitrogen into a form usable by plants, and thus by us. But when he began to investigate the workings of nitrogenase in detail, Johannes Rebelein discovered that the enzyme was capable of doing even more than that. The enzyme could be the starting point for a new biotechnology that produces useful materials from the greenhouse gas CO2.

Dr Johannes G. Rebelein is an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and the SYNMIKRO Research Centre. He studied biotechnology at the Technical University of Braunschweig and received his PhD in 2016 at the University of California in Irvine (USA) in the group of Prof. Dr. Markus W. Ribbe, followed by a postdoctoral period with Prof. Dr. Thomas Ward at the University of Basel (Switzerland).