Last week, this thrilling work lead by Charlie was published. It describes the underground metabolism involved in #isoleucine biosynthesis. An exciting example of (enzymatic) promiscuity! #undergroundmetabolism #promiscuousenzymes elifesciences.org/articles/54207

Finally out in Nature Catalysis: how we developed a new #CO2 fixing enzyme and interfaced it with natural and synthetic CO2 fixing pathways rdcu.be/cc2Pk Enzyme engineering meets synthetic metabolism!

Please RT: I'm excited to announce the first 4 yr fully-funded PhD studentship in my lab LeidenBiology If you're interested in biochemistry and metabolic engineering of cool environmental bacteria, apply at this link. DM me if you have any questions! universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2…

Read about our award-winning alumnae, Iria Grundling and Tarryn Miller mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1061029/2021-0…

Hot off the press: The journey of how Maren Nattermann and Simon Burgener re-engineered a decarboxylase into a synthetic #carboligase for one-carbon #biocatalysis. A fruitful collaboration with Gonzalez Research Group. A short thread to follow: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Plugging microbial pathways into plants to boost #photosynthesis. Collaboration with Andreas Weber starts flowering #gain4crops #synbio pnas.org/content/118/21…

The ADL Lab UZH Chemistry is hiring! Our new lab is looking for an enthusiastic PhD student in metalloenzyme engineering and data science. If you are interested in an exciting project in this area, we are interested in hearing from you! (please share) jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen…

ReTweet! We are looking for 3 (#MaxPlanck) independent Research Groups in #Microbiology in #Marburg Get your career started in one of the best research environments in molecular & synthetic microbiology worldwide nature.com/naturecareers/… Max Planck Society MPI_Ter Mic Postdocs Max Planck Postdocnet

We are looking for new colleagues! Join the awesome environments in molecular & synthetic #Microbiology MPI_Ter Mic Postdocs and @SYNMIKRO in Marburg. 3 independent #groupleader positions are available now: nature.com/naturecareers/… #academicjobs #ScienceJobs #researchjobs #academia

What are we supposed to do with such comments from the Editor? 🤔 Any ideas??? The article has already 8 (!) referees🧐 (with constructive comments) BTW, did not know we♀️had that superpower! 😈💪 Spoiler: manuscript REJECTED #STEM #Publishing #WTF #NotAjoke

Exclusion of Switzerland from Horizon Europe 🇪🇺: Srinivas Narayanan will announce calls for those who intended to apply for - ERC Advanced Grants - MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships today at 3 pm. The calls will open on Oct 1 and 15, respectively. Apply, apply, apply.

Don't forget to mark your calendars: October 28th and November 18th editions to see an exciting mix of academic and industrial talks! Ward Group The Hartwig Group Prozomix Ginkgo Bioworks Zymvol Biomodeling meetup.com/Virtual-Biocat…

Speakers: Simon Burgener Ward Group University of Basel CO2 fixation with thiamin-dependent enzymes Brandon Bloomer The Hartwig Group College of Chemistry Mechanistic Studies of Iridium-Containing Cytochrome Richard Obexer Sarah Lovelock Lab, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology Discovery of macrocyclic peptides

Warm congratulations to Tobias Erb SYBORG who has just received this year`s 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 by Merck Deutschland for his ground-breaking #research on synthetic #photosynthesis! #Curious2022 #syntheticbiology

Another day in the lab with the Ward Group 🏔👩‍🔬🇨🇭 University of Basel #ChemTwitter #phdvoice #grouptrip

The way to formatotrophy was long and rocky. So will be the way to sustainability. But we will walk it! 1/4 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super excited to share my 1st first-author publication out today in Science Magazine, in which we resurrect billion-year-old enzymes to study the evolution of Rubisco. Let me tell you how a 100 amino acid protein facilitated the rise of oxygenic life. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Uncork your bottles! Read Biochemistry how mesaconyl-CoA transferase promotes an unusual intramolecular CoA-transfer by a "cork-up mechanism" pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Fresh Nickel for a fresh 2023 #thisishowyouremindme

I'm looking for postdocs interested in protein complexes and sequence space. How new complexes are distributed in sequence space, and how new interactions modify the sequence space available to enzymes. Email me if interested. Retweet pls