News 2023

Today, the review on chitin deacetylases written by Sandra Lindner, Margareta Hellmann, and Dr. Martin Bonin supported by Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher has been accepted for publication in the highly renowned journal Carbohydrate Polymers.
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Today, Dr. Anne Vortkamp, Dr. Philipp Lemke, and Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher visited the Dutch daughter satellite event of the famous Helsinki Start-up Fair “Slush”, “the most founder-focused event on Earth” according to their website.
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Today, Margareta Hellmann’s paper describing her surprising observation of an unexpectedly regular distribution of acetyl groups in typical commercial chitosans was accepted for publication in the renowned journal “Nature Communications”.
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Today, Dr. Anne Vortkamp, supported by Dr. Philipp Lemke, won the pitch contest of the REACH - EUREGIO Start-up Center  of our University.
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Today, Bruno Moerschbacher was awarded the Best Teacher Award “Goldener Hans”.
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Today, the second of our Codeχ Mercator fellows, Prof. Zimmer from the US, gave a fascinating seminar on transmembrane polysaccharide synthases.
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Today, we re-started the monthly webinar series on structure-function relationships of chitosans organized by our DFG-funded Priority Program Codeχ on Chito-Protein Interactions.
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Today, we were informed that the proposal of Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher for a post-doctoral fellowship from the internationalization fund of our university for Dr. Laís Moreira Granato from the Universidade Federal de Vicosa in Brazil has been successful.
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This evening, Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher was invited by the Heimatverein Senden e.V. to give a presentation about our research and its implications in the framework of the seminar series “Wissenschaft im Dialog”.
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Today, one of Margareta Hellmann’s manuscripts has finally been accepted for publication in the renowned journal “Scientific Reports”.
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Today, the PIs, post-doctoral and doctoral researchers of the research projects funded by the German Research Foundation DFG in the framework of its Priority Program “Codeχ [BM1] – The Code of Chito-Protein Interactions” met in Siegen for the first time.
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Today, Martin Bonin’s second central paper resulting from his doctoral project with us has been published in the renowned journal PLOS Biology.
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This year, we celebrated our Christmas party together with the group of Prof. Till Ischebeck, the designated successor of Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher. We also had a mixed orga team, and they did a great job! Food and Glühwein, Wichteln and Pub-Quiz were superb – we also deserved it after another highly successful year!
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He seems happy again this year. Nikolaus brought chocolate copies of himself for everyone. This year, with just five papers (so far! – more is to come...), including one that is still under embargo, we achieved an average impact factor of 8.2, essentially the same as last year (8.1) with then six papers.
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Today, our alumnus Dr. Martin Bonin was about those new doctors who were invited by our University to be honoured for defending their doctoral thesis this year with "summa laude".
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Today, we learned that yesterday, Carlos Girao from the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil, who had spent six months with us during his ongoing PhD earlier this year, was awarded third place for oral presentations
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Today, after a long preparation time, our proposal for a Start-up Transfer NRW project, along with its 14 (fourteen!) amendments, has finally been granted. Our alumna Dr. Anne Vortkamp together with our alumnus Dr. Philipp Lemke had applied to set up AgriBluBio
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Today, we were visited by a high-ranking delegation from Shandong province in China. The County Mayor of Linshu County, Mrs. Hou Suyun, accompanied by the Director of Linshu Economic Development Zone, Mr. Wang Shaolong, and the Director of Linshu County Industry 
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Today finally, we received the granting letter for our NRW Patent Validation project "Lab to Field". This will allow Dr. Sruthi Sreekumar and Dr. Carolin Richter, founders-to-be of our next start-up "greEnCAP", to perform field trials to add value to our patent "Chitosan-Coated Emulsion and Uses Thereof".
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Our 'sandwich' alumnus Prof. Enio de Oliveira and his wife Prof. Ana de Oliveira, both from the Federal University of São João del Rei in Ouro Branco in the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil, have arrived in Münster last weekend, and in our institute today.
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Today, after about two years, our joint project with Dr. Christian Gorzelanny from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf was granted by the German Research Foundation, DFG
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Today, during the Science to Start-up Convention S2SC of the REACH Euregio Start-up Center, Vera Fleuter obtained the REACH thesis award for her Master thesis
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This week, right after the excellent chitin and chitosan conference in Iceland, we had our own small, but not less intense chitin and chitosan meeting here in Münster
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Finally, after so many years without any international chitin and chitosan conference, we met with about 100 colleagues from all over the world in far-off, charming Siglufjörður, the Northern-most town of Iceland.
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Today, we finally received confirmation for our Start-up Transfer.NRW grant application to support the foundation of the planned biotech start-up AgriBluBio by our alumna Dr. Anne Vortkamp, supported by our alumnus Dr. Philipp Lemke.
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Finally, we received confirmation that our application for a NRW Patent Validation Grant for the patent "chitoCAP" was successful. We will use the budget to allow Dr. Sruthi Sreekumar and Dr. Carolin Richter to further validate their technology to produce chitosan-stabilized microemulsions of hydrophobic bio-actives such as plant essential oils to be used as environment-friendly and consumer-safe agro-biologics for sustainable agriculture.
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Today, this year's RootCamp Accelerator programme ended with a demo day where our alumnae Dr. Sruthi Sreekumar and Dr. Carolin Richter had the opportunity to pitch the idea for their start-up greEnCAP to industry giants, initiating potential collaborations with enthusiastic stakeholders.
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Today, Dr. Ratna Singh's manuscript on quantum mechanics based in depth in silico-analysis of copper ion binding to chitosan has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
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Today, the members of the AbDü consortium met for the kick-off meeting of this European research and development project which aims to develop an automated, AI-controlled bioreactor for the conversion of agricultural side streams into a smart biofertilizer.
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Just one week after his successful defence, Max Linhorst was awarded with the official doctoral certificate and, equally important, with the doctoral hat prepared by his colleagues from our team.
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Our ‘sandwich’ alumnus Dr. Enio de Oliveira and his wife Dr. Ana de Oliveira have both been granted three-month fellowships in the framework of the DAAD programme „Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists“.
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Today, Max Linhorst successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the biotechnological production of novel chitosan derivatives using chitin deacetylases acting in reverse.
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Today, we received the granting letter for our project ChitoCode in the framework of the DFG-funded priority programme (SPP 2416) “CodeΧ  -  Chitin, chitosan and chito-oligosaccharides and their interaction with proteins of the extracellular matrix and cellular signaling”.
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