General Microbiology Göttingen

23/09/2021

Our group had a fantastic retreat at the beach of Warnemünde!

14/09/2021

Read Tiago's new paper on SynWiki the database for the minimal artificial organism Syn3A!
Tiago Pedreira Neil Singh

The new field of synthetic biology aims at the creation of artificially designed organisms. A major breakthrough in the field was the generation of the artificial synthetic organism Mycoplasma mycoid...

17/07/2021

PhD ceremony for Björn Richts and Patrick Faßhauer

07/07/2021

Great work by colleagues and friends from Groningen! Oscar Kuipers
This helps to fully use the potential of MiniBacillus!
Rafts4Biotech

Cell chaining in Bacillus subtilis is naturally observed in a subset of cells during exponential growth and during biofilm formation. However, the recently constructed large-scale genome-minimized B. subtilis strain PG10 displays a severe and permanent defect in cell separation, as it exclusively gr...

02/07/2021

The new study on the B. subtilis cold shock proteins appears just one day after the PhD defense of Patrick Faßhauer!
Very good collaboration with colleagues in Greifswald and Bielefeld!
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/7/1434

23/06/2021

Read the new paper from Martin Benda, Patrick Faßhauer, Simon Wölfel, And Katrin Gunka! Great collaboration with Libor Krásný ans Stefan Klumpp!

Abstract. RNA turnover is essential in all domains of life. The endonuclease RNase Y (rny) is one of the key components involved in RNA metabolism of the model

18/03/2021

Larissa Krüger receives the VAAM thesis Award! With the fourth award after Sven Halbedel, Lope Florez, and Jan Gundlach, Larissa continues a story of success! Congratulations!

18/03/2021

Great to have a student from our department among the award winners!

15/03/2021

Update of the Department homepage: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/577601.html

22/02/2021

New paper by Larissa Krüger, Christina Herzberg, Dennis Wicke and colleagues from Göttingen and Hannover!
Find out how a c-di-AMP.binding protein can link potassium starvation to the stringent response in B. subtilis!

25/01/2021

Happy to see Larissa's new paper out!

Author summary Bacteria are exposed to constantly changing environmental conditions. In order to respond to these changes, they use nucleotide second messengers to transduce external signals and translate them into a specific cellular response. Among the repertoire of bacterial second messenger nucl...

06/01/2021

Nice paper to which our former lab member Martin Benda has contributed!

The expression of rRNA is one of the most energetically demanding cellular processes and, as such, it must be stringently controlled. Here, we report that DNA topology, i.e., the level of DNA supercoiling, plays a role in the regulation of Bacillus subtilis σA-dependent rRNA promoters in a gro...