For the ZDF production “plan b” 2 employees went on the in search of the garbage visionaries. Their goal: To live more resource-consciously and create less waste. For this purpose visited the research laboratory of Dr. Christian Sonnendecker.
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Capillary biofilm reactors (CBRs) are attractive for growing photoautotrophic bacteria as they allow high cell-density cultivation. Here, we evaluated the CBR system’s suitability to grow an artificial consortium composed of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and Pseudomonas sp. VBL120. The impact of reactor material, flow rate, pH, O2, and medium composition on biomass development and long-term biofilm stability at different reactor scales was studied. Silicone was superior over other materials like glass or PVC due to its excellent O2 permeability.
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/elsc.202300014
Based on a cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, we newly published a paper in Nature on a new mechanism counteracting bioadhesion by entropic repulsion of orientational fluctuations in cholesterol multilayers. Our results not only reveal this new mechanism of entropic repulsion to be relevant in the surface properties of Collembola, but, also shows the high specificity of the cholesterol chemistry.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06033-4
To read the article by Dr. Rohan Karande, Alexander Franz, Prof. Dr. Falk Harnisch and Micjel Chávez Morejón click here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/gc/d3gc01105d
Click here for the article by Prof. Dr. Tilo Pompe, Veronika Riedl, Matthias Portius, Lara Heiser, Philipp Riedl, Torsten Jakob, Rosa Gehring and Thorsten Berg:
https://research.uni-leipzig.de/bact/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-JMatChemB-SCP-SMX.pdf
Read more: Development of a synthesis strategy for sulfamethoxazole derivatives and their coupling with hydrogel microparticlesClick here for the article by Dr. Henri Franquelim: https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(23)00135-2
Click here for the article by Prof. Dr. Tilo Pompe and Matthias Portius and Christian Dannenberg:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958166923000265?dgcid=author
To read the article by Dr. Rohan Karande (Haed of Junior Research Group – BioMat – Bioactive systems for controlled evolutionary materials), click here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960852423001293?via%3Dihub
To read the article by Dr. Henri G. Franquelim (head of the Biomimetic Nanotechnology Junior Research Group), click here: