Fantastic Girls' Day! Explored "Fungi as a chemical factory" with enthusiastic young minds. Great questions & future scientists in the making! Hope to see them back at uni someday.

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A prime example of successful international collaboration is the recently granted research funding by the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP). The project "1+1=1: Bioengineering synthetic symbiosis to illuminate how a microalga becomes an endosymbiont," led by Dr. Johan Decelle (CNRS-CEA Grenoble, France), Dr. Daniel Ducat (Michigan State University, USA), and Dr. Dietrich Kohlheyer (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH), was selected from a multitude of high-caliber applications.

It is particularly gratifying that this collaboration was initiated through Daniel Ducat's stay as a Mercator Fellow in the MibiNet network at Heinrich Heine University (HHU). This highlights the importance of the MibiNet network as a catalyst for fostering long-term international research partnerships.

The funding, amounting to $ 400,000 per year over three years, enables the team to conduct groundbreaking research in the field of synthetic symbiosis.

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Tiny scientists, huge fun! Children at AWO Kita Ki.Wis explored the world of fungi with Dr. Terfrüchte and the support of MibiNet. Microscope, taste test & lots of fun! This is an excellent example of how to get children excited about science.

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What drives the microbiome in the desert? Exciting insights from visiting scientist Prof. Dr. Ferran Garcia Pichel from Arizona State University at the MibiNet Seminar.

We are very happy for Khaled Selim! His Emmy-Noether application has been approved. It is a fantastic achievement and a great gain for research in cyanobacterial metabolism.

Research projects join forces:Collaboration of the Cluster of Excellence CEPLAS, the Transregional Collaborative Research Center (TRR) 341 “Plant Ecological Genetics” and the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1535 MibiNet supported joint research stay of research couple.

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Dietrich Kohlheyer's and the entire A07 team's new work has been published and even graces the cover of Lab on Chip.

Read the article: “A microfluidic system for the cultivation of cyanobacteria with precise light intensity and CO₂ control: enabling growth data acquisition at single-cell resolution”