Recently, I had the pleasure of presenting our work at the first CO2FIX conference in Tianjin, China. It was great to see how seriously this research area is taken in China and how breakthroughs in research are rapidly moving towards large-scale applications in biotechnology.

Ethylene glycol is widely used as monomer of the plastic PET. It is therefore highly relevant as sustainable feedstock for microbial biotechnology. In our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com, we characterize efficient enzymes for ethylene glycol oxidation: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@dirktischler.bsky.social is opening the @vaam-microbes.bsky.social conference 2025 at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Looking forward to three days of presentations, posters, and networking!

A tale of three regulators: in a new study, we investigated the regulation of glycolate metabolism in the bacterium Paracoccus denitrificans. These results help us to understand how bacteria make use of this highly abundant molecule.
Now available as a preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Cell Physiology course (BSc, first year) is getting settled for the first lecture. Well, if I can convince at least a few of the students that topics such as the TCA cycle or CO2 fixation are interesting and exciting, I will consider the course a success. 🙂