Press releases
- Kick-off meeting of the M-ERA.NET project LivMatThe new b-ACTmatter project ‘LivMat: Productive catalytic living materials: combining 3D biobased fibrillar membranes with synthetic microbial consortia to produce chemicals’ was launched this summer. On 19 September 2024 the project partners from Leipzig University, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Kaunas University of Technology (KUT), University of Latvia (ULaT) and Solaga GmbH met in Leipzig’s BIO CITY for the kick-off meeting.
- New publication about the detection of sulfonamide antibioticsOur research group ‘Active Materials’ recently published an article on the detection of sulfonamide antibiotics with optical biosensors in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. The technology developed in the research group is based on elastic hydrogel microparticles, so-called soft colloidal probes (SCP).
- What is the circular economy?On August 6 and 7, Dr. Susanne Ebitsch and Thomas Wendland from the Saxon Agency for Structural Development GmbH SAS, visited the Lommatzscher secondary school for Nursing care for a talk on Circular Economy. The aim was to sensitize the young generation to the importance of the circular economy and to provide initial insights into research and the future world of work.
- b-ACT matter Retreat at NimbschenAway from the desk and out of the lab: the b-ACT matter team was taken on a day-long retreat at the Nimbschen Monastery Hotel near Grimma to review the current status of research and transfer projects. Presentations provided informations on the innovative research and successes of our junior research groups and start-up projects.
Events
- Innovative Bio-based Materials and Technologies: Shaping Future Regional Development and Perspectives||| March 24, 2025 ||| The Research and Transfer Center for Bioactive Matter (b-ACTmatter) kindly invites you to engage in a dynamic discussion centered on bio-based materials and cutting-edge technologies for novel applications. Our goal is to offer a wider perspective on the future directions of this innovative research area.
- Science Slam at the University Leipzig||| November 12, 2024 ||| On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, a science slam will take place at Leipzig University at 8:00 p.m., where Selina Hanisch from the b-ACT junior research group BioMat will also give a presentation. The event will be moderated by Jack Pop, known from the Circus of Science Leipzig. The supporting program and other slams will be held in German, Selina’s presentation will be in English. All interested parties are cordially invited to experience an entertaining evening together.
- IP4 Science Talks of Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research||| December 3, 2024 ||| On December 3, 2024, Dr. Laura Wey from the University of Turku in Finland will give a talk on exoelectrogenesis as a permanent extracellular electron transport pathway in photosynthetic bacteria as part of the IP4 science talk series at the UFZ.
- Joint Biochemical colloquium of the Institute of Biochemistry and b-ACT matter||| December 10, 2024 ||| We cordially invite you to the Joint Biochemical colloquium of the Institute of Biochemistry and b-ACT matter in December. The topic of Dr. Bastian Molitor’s lecture is “Carbon dioxide utilization and microbiomes: Unraveling physiological traits of anaerobic (gas-fermenting) microbes”.