News Archive
21.04.2020 Dominique Remy's project on meadow rewilding wins BfN award (more...).
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30.11.2017 Prof. Christian Kost: Inaugural Lecture
13.06.2016 Glen successfully defends his PhD thesis, which is entitled "The evolution of metabolic dependency in bacteria“. Congratulations Glen! He now moves to Switzerland, to join the group of Martin Ackermann at the ETH Zürich.
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07.04.2016 Silvio successfully defends his PhD thesis, which is entitled "Evolutionary systems biology of bacterial metabolic adaptation". Congratulations Silvio! He now continues his academic career as a post doc at the Medical Systems Biology Group of Prof. Christoph Kaleta at CAU, Kiel.
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30.03.2016 Silvio's paper titled "Metabolic network architecture and carbon source determine metabolite production costs" has been accepted for publication at the FEBS Journal. Congrats Silvio!
February 2016. Our work on intercellular cross-feeding via nanotubes and on adaptive gene loss were featured in Max Planck Research and in a podcast by detektor.fm.
February 2016. Muhammad starts his PhD thesis funded by the International Max Planck Research School. Congrats Muhammad!
February 2016. Ariane finishes her Masters thesis titled " Generation of auxotrophic Bacillus subtilis strains". Congratualtions Ariane!
16.08.2015 John Carey highlights two of our publications in a PNAS News Feature
on the evolution of symbiotic interactions (link).
on the evolution of symbiotic interactions (link).
30.01.2015 Glen's and Silvio's paper on the effects of epistasis and plastiticty of
auxotrophy-causing mutations has been accepted at Evolution (article).
auxotrophy-causing mutations has been accepted at Evolution (article).
08.01.2015 Breaking news: Samay's, Shraddha's, and Lisa's paper on the
intercellular communication of bacteria via nanotubes has been acccepted for publication in Nature Communications (article) (press release)(Highlight in Nature). |
25.09.2014 Samay successfully defends his excellent doctoral thesis "Ecological mechanisms that stabilize cooperative cross-feeding in bacteria". Congratulations Samay! He now moves on to work with Greg Velicer's group at ETH Zurich.
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Christian Kost and Martin Ackermann organize a symposium on the upcoming ESEB meeting in Lausanne on the levels of selection in microbial systems (more).
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1.07.2012 Silvio Waschina joins the lab as a new PhD student that is cosupervised
by Christoph Kaleta and Christian Kost. Welcome back Silvio! |
9.01.2012 Silvio successfully defends his excellent diploma thesis, which is entitled "Theoretical design
and experimental verification of amino acid overproducing strains of Escherichia coli using
CASOP GS". Congratulations Silvio!
and experimental verification of amino acid overproducing strains of Escherichia coli using
CASOP GS". Congratulations Silvio!
30.08.2011 Tobias Weise hands in his bachelor's thesis, which is entitled: 'Aufbau und Inbetriebnahme
einer Chemostaten-Anlage zur Kokultivierung mutualistischer Bakterienstaemme'.
Congratulations Tobias! Unfortunately Tobias leaves us to commence the Master's program
biotechnology at the FH Jena.
einer Chemostaten-Anlage zur Kokultivierung mutualistischer Bakterienstaemme'.
Congratulations Tobias! Unfortunately Tobias leaves us to commence the Master's program
biotechnology at the FH Jena.
Martin Kaltenpoth and Christian Kost coorganize a symposium on "Mutualistic interactions: causes and consequences" at the ESEB conference 2011 in Tuebingen (more...)
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18.05.2011 Sandra Scholz hands in her diploma thesis, which is entitled 'Establishing of a flexible labeling
strategy for soil bacteria with fluorescent proteins'. Congratulations Sandra! She will now join
Axel Mithoefer's group for a PhD.
strategy for soil bacteria with fluorescent proteins'. Congratulations Sandra! She will now join
Axel Mithoefer's group for a PhD.
1.04.2011 Christian Kost becomes a faculty member of the International Max
Planck Research School (IMPRS) in Jena. |
9.01.2011 The lab farewells Ingrid. It was great having you here.
13.07.2010 Felix Bertels successfully defends his diploma thesis at the University of Applied Sciences.
Congratulations Felix!
Congratulations Felix!