Robel Tesfu joins the institute as a BTA trainee. Welcome!

Philip's paper entitled "A multi‑omic screening approach for the discovery of thermoactive glycoside hydrolases" has been published in Extremophiles. Congratulations! Busch et al. 2020

Jan started his Master project focusing on enzymatic polymer degradation. Welcome!

Our new paper entitled "Biomass-degrading glycoside hydrolases of archaeal origin" has been published in Biotechnology for Biofuels. Congratulations! Suleiman et al. 2020

Anna's paper entitled "Digitalization in microbiology – Paving the path to sustainable circular bioeconomy" has been published in the Special Issue "Trends in Bioeconomy" of New Biotechnology. Congratulations! Krüger et al. 2020

Daniela started her Master project focusing on the identification, production and purification of thermostable proteases from volcano-associated habitats in Costa Rica. Welcome back!

Fernando started his Master project focusing on enzymes catalyzing the hydrolysis of plasticizer analogues. Welcome!

Lena Wriede joins the institute as a BTA trainee. Welcome!

A new paper of our group entitled "What we learn from extremophiles" has been published in ChemTexts. Congratulations! Schröder et al. 2020

Arianna delle Coste and Judith Hansen join our institute as BTA trainee. Welcome!

Daniela started her project work focusing on the identification of proteolytic enzymes from volcano-associated habitats in Costa Rica. Welcome!

A new paper of our group entitled "Microbial biofilm formation and degradation of octocrylene, a UV absorber found in sunscreen" has been published in Communications biology. Congratulations! Suleiman et al. 2019

Caro's paper entitled "Characterization of an extremely thermo-active archaeal β-glucosidase and its activity towards glucan and mannan in concert with an endoglucanase" has been published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Congratulations! Schröder et al. 2019

Christin's paper entitled "Comparative Analysis and Biochemical Characterization of Two Endo-β-1,3-Glucanases from the Thermophilic Bacterium Fervidobacterium sp." has been published in Catalysts. Congratulations! Burkhardt et al. 2019

Rieke started her Bachelor project focussing on putative PET hydrolyzing enzymes. Welcome!

Celina Eggers joins the institute as a BTA trainee. Welcome!

Bennet, coming from Bonn University, started his 3 months internship focussing on the characterization of endoglucanases derived from a metagenomic dataset. Welcome!

John-Hendrik started his Master project focusing on the degradation of microplastic. Welcome!

Barbara's paper entitled "Characterization of a thermoactive endoglucanase isolated from a biogas plant metagenome" has been published in Extremophiles. Congratulations! Klippel et al. 2019

Katharina Tödter and Niklas Weigmann join the institute as BTA trainee. Welcome!

Samyuktha started her Master project focusing on the characterization of a thermostable endoglucanase. Welcome!

Leon started his Bachelor project focussing on cold-active proteases. Welcome!

Marcel's paper entitled "Enrichment of anaerobic heterotrophic thermophiles from four Azorean hot springs revealed different community composition and genera abundances using recalcitrant substrates" will be published in Extremophiles. Congratulations! Suleiman et al. 2019

Dr. Mazen Rizk and Dr. Thibault Godard join the institute as guests. Welcome!

Antonia Zabel and Julian Arbeiter join the institute as BTA trainee. Welcome!

Marcel's paper entitled "Extremely thermoactive archaeal endoglucanase from a shallow marine hydrothermal vent from Vulcano Island" will be published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Congratulations! Suleiman et al. 2018

Christina started her Master project. She will screen for proteolytic extremozymes from volcano-associated samples from Costa Rica. Welcome!

Alexander started his Master project focussing on protein engineering of an endo-beta-glucanase. Welcome!

Hugo started his Master project focussing on proteases. Welcome!

Daniela started her Master project focussing on beta-glucosidases. Welcome!

Caro's paper entitled "Characterization of a Theme C Glycoside Hydrolase Family 9 Endo-Beta-Glucanase from a Biogas Reactor Metagenome" will be published in The Protein Journal. Congratulations! Schröder et al. 2018

Jennifer Kehler, Natalie Kratzsch and Aron Ripke join the institute as BTA trainee. Welcome!

The 9th International Congress on Biocatalysis (biocat2018) was held at TUHH. Pictures are now available online: www.biocat-conference.de

Luis started his Master project focussing on beta-glucosidases. Welcome!

Hanna Balster joined our institute to start her doctoral thesis on "Robust enzymes for food treatment". Welcome!

Tim Frenzel, Mattis Hausig and Rudrik Weikamp join the institute as BTA trainees. Welcome!

Nina Hackbarth joins the institute as a BTA trainee. Welcome!

Christina Bossman and André Fienemann join the institute as BTA trainees. Welcome!

Tabea started her bachelor project focussing on glycoside hydrolases. Welcome!

Zacharias Müller, Nazik Toraman and Stephanie Zielinski join the institute as BTA trainees. Welcome!

Anna's review entitled "Towards a sustainable biobased industry – Highlighting the impact of extremophiles" will be published in New Biotechnology. Congratulations! Krüger et al. 2018

Our new paper entitled "Diversity of bacteria and archaea from two shallow marine hydrothermal vents from Vulcano Island" has been published in Extremophiles. Congratulations! Antranikian et al. 2017

Our "Microbiology and Biotechnology Workshop" will take place at TUHH on May 11th 2017 together with the Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, the Institute of Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering and our guests from Wageningen University.

Alejandro started his Master project. He is producing and characterizing deletion constructs of an endoglucanase. Welcome back!

Jessica Müller, Patrick Langer and Svenja Stahl join the institute as BTA trainees. Welcome!

Viktoria joined our team working on our HOOU MikiE project. Welcome back!

Christin started her Master project focussing on xylan degradation pathways in thermophilic microorganisms. Welcome!

Our new TM homepage www.tuhh.de/tm/ is now online!

The halophilic Archaeon Halobacterium salinarum is the microbe of the year 2017!

Skander's paper entitled "Parallel N- and C-Terminal Truncations Facilitate Purification and Analysis of a 155-kDa Cold-Adapted Type-I Pullulanase" has been accepted for publication in Protein J. Congratulations!

Christian's paper "Complete genome sequence of Thermus brockianus GE-1 reveals key enzymes of xylan/xylose metabolism" has been accepted for publication in Standards in Genomic Sciences. Congratulations! Schäfers et al. 2017

Skander's and Caro's paper entitled "Boiling Water is not too Hot for Us! - Preferred Living Spaces of Heat-Loving Microbes" has been published in Front Young Minds. Congratulations! Elleuche et al. 2017

Prof. Antranikian contributed the forword to the special feature of the Extremophiles journal based on the 11^th International Congress on Extremophiles held in Kyoto, Japan, September 12–16, 2016. Antranikian 2017

Caro's paper entitled "Characterization of two novel heat-active α-galactosidases from thermophilic bacteria" has been published in Extremophiles. Congratulations! Schröder et al. 2017