Spent an awesome sunny afternoon building a "bee hotel" organized by the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology #GreenTeam 🐝 It still lacks a name - maybe AirBee'n'Bee, M.Bee.I,.. ? @[email protected]

We built a bee-hotel!🐝Props to the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology #GreenTeam for organising this fantastic event to promote #sustainability at our institute and @[email protected]

Headed off to Pisa by bike 🚴‍♂️ - aero package includes Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology #GreenTeam cap, T-shirt, schnelle Brille and aerodynamic mullet.

Currently at the mediterranean sea - far away from Marburg, but Luca Schulz still gets his Rostiger Nagel. #flat Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology #GreenTeam Frederik Schmidt

Congrats on your awesome work! Frederik Schmidt and Luca Schulz

Turned out amazing and can only recommend slower modes of travel if at all feasible. Much love Markus Meier & Frederik Schmidt.

Check out the our grad school! Call is open now ;)

Excited to finally share the #cryoEM structure of the iron #nitrogenase complex out today in NatureStructMolBiol. This thread serves to prime you on some of the amazing biochemistry required to make molecular nitrogen (N2) bioavailable! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited to share my first corresponding & co-first author paper with Clemens Böhm! We developed cell-free extracts from chloroplasts of various plant species for rapid prototyping, accelerating #plantSynBio in chloroplasts. 🌿 Check it out! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

NITROOGENAAASEEE!!

🎉 What a blast at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology Sommerfest! Big thanks to our amazing PhD and Postdoc reps for organizing the event: 🏓 Epic table tennis matches!, delicious food & drinks, and perfect weather—summertime🌻at its best! IMPRS-μLife

Preprint alert🚨! We introduce CodonTransformer, a multispecies codon optimizer using context-aware neural networks: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. A user-friendly Google Colab interface for codon optimization: twtr.to/A9c3v, feedback is appreciated!

Excited to finally making the first steps turning our DynaPore project into an actual technology! Please, support us by casting a vote for team DynaPore 🦖

Check out Ana's work (and twitter summary) on the structural, evolutionary, and biochemical characterization of methylthio-alkane reductases!

Does yeast get wrinkles when it ages? Idk, but surely the HAPPY team can tell you. Make sure to support them at #HGP24

A huge thank you 🙏 to everyone who supported us! 🎉 Although we didn’t take home the win #HGP24, we're HAPPY to share the new video showcasing the project. Check it out! 📽️ youtube.com/watch?v=-Qxzho… youtube.com/watch?v=-Qxzho…

New paper from us and SYBORG by Luca Schulz : embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…. It's about the evolution of essentiality. This question has fascinated me for a long time: How does a component that was previously unnecessary for some function become essential for it?

New in @EMBOjournal, we studied the evolution of essentiality in Form I Rubisco. While Georg Hochberg nicely summarizes the evolutionary implications of our work, let me summarize some of the cool biochemistry surrounding it. doi.org/10.1038/s44318… 🧵

Lets talk about #acetyl-CoA! As central molecule in C1 metabolism, the efficiency of its assimilation determines yields. Read below about our Lcm as novel activity in the shortest O2 tolerant route to make pyruvate from acetyl-CoA while fixing #CO2! nature.com/articles/s4146…

We are looking for a postdoc - in a project on a UbiD like (de)carboxylase!