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Joint Sampling20240624141149
Joint Sampling
24. June 2024Projekttreffen, sampling
From June 10 to June 14, a joint sampling took place at the ICBM in Oldenburg as part of the MultiCultivation project, in which all project partners participated. The aim was to examine water samples from the Wadden Sea south of Spiekeroog. Each project partner contributed their respective expertise...
Exploring Andean High-Altitude Lake Extremophiles through Advanced Proteotyping20240411072208
Exploring Andean High-Altitude Lake Extremophiles through Advanced Proteotyping
11. April 2024Project
On February 20, 2024, a publication by the DLR project members Prof. Dr. Ralf Möller and Katharina Runzheimer, along with their collaborators from Germany, France, and Chile, appeared in the Journal of Proteome Research. The study focuses on the cultivation and subsequent identification of extremoph...
Project meeting in Nuremberg 05.02 – 07.02.2420240307144137
Project meeting in Nuremberg 05.02 – 07.02.24
7. March 2024Projekttreffen, reactor
The sixth project meeting of the MultiKulti team took place at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) at the beginning of February. The main focus of the meeting was on various organizational areas, but the reactor and the progress of the individual sub-projects were also discus...
Dancing the Nanopore Limbo – New publication on nanopore sequencing with low DNA input20240222160912
Dancing the Nanopore Limbo – New publication on nanopore sequencing with low DNA input
22. February 2024Publications
On 01.12.23, a publication by UDE project members Prof. Dr. Alexander Probst and Sophie Simon on the application of nanopore sequencing with very small amounts of DNA was published in BMC Genomics. Genome-resolving metagenomics has drastically changed our understanding of the ecological and genetic ...
Stefanie Feilner receives prize for her work as part of the MultiKulti project20240222143819
Stefanie Feilner receives prize for her work as part of the MultiKulti project
22. February 2024reactor, Uncategorized
Stefanie Feilner from FAU received the EnCN Energy Award in the storage category for her master’s thesis in Prof. Dr. Katharina Herkendell’s working group. In her work, she simulated the flow within our MultiKulit reactor. This confirmed observations made in the model. A spiral flow form...
Sampling at Lüneburg salt brine20231220122141
Sampling at Lüneburg salt brine
20. December 2023sampling
In October, the DLR was back at the Deutsches Salzmuseum for another sampling and presentation. Lüneburg, also known as the Salt City of the North, was the largest salt producer in Europe for a long time. This is because there is an almost completely saturated salt brine below the town, which used t...
MultiKulti team at the BigBang…Microbes workshop!20231016110557
MultiKulti team at the BigBang…Microbes workshop!
16. October 2023conference, Projekttreffen
On 28/29 September 2023, an international workshop organized by the MultiKulti project partner DLR took place in Cologne...
Finally: The reactor is here20230925123459
Finally: The reactor is here
The heart of the MultiKulti plant has finally arrived. Just in time for the start of the vacation season at our Bavarian project partner FAU, Thomas Trabold was finally able to hold in his hands what had taken so much planning time....
New publication describes possible new function of the CRISPR/Cas system20230819091113
New publication describes possible new function of the CRISPR/Cas system
19. August 2023Publications
On July 27, 2023, the team of project partner Prof. Dr. Alexander Probst published a possible new function of the CRISPR/Cas system in the renowned journal Nature Microbiology. Archaea also use the gene scissors to fight parasites. Thus, the CRISPR systems were also found in widespread previously un...
MultiKulti Webinar on Arctic Microbial Communities20230517105030
MultiKulti Webinar on Arctic Microbial Communities
17. May 2023Lectures
On 11th of May 2023 we had the great pleasure of hearing a presentation by Ellen Oldenburg on her research on microbial communities of the Arctic ocean....