Bioeconomy

Article - 04/10/2010

ANASYN Ozan Gökay – research laboratory for complex tasks

Ozan Gökay, chemical engineer and chemist, has been thinking about setting up his own company for many years. Now he is about to turn his plans into reality and his company ANASYN will start operating in November 2010. The company will focus on analytics, syntheses and biotechnology.

Press release - 31/05/2010

Geomicrobiologists from Tübingen discover how electricity flows in soil

Geomicrobiologists from the Centre for Applied Geoscience at the University of Tübingen in cooperation with researchers from the University of Wisconsin USA the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing BAM and the Humboldt University in Berlin are the first in the world to show that microorganisms are able to use solid-phase organic soil particles so-called humic substances to replace oxygen when grown in the absence of oxygen. The…

Press release - 28/04/2010

Antibiotics & Co: Insilico and partners to improve biotech production

A veritable network specialist has become active in yet another network the GenBioCom joint project financed by BMBF Federal Ministry of Education and Research is profiting from Insilico Biotechnologys know-how on bacterial metabolism and genome-based metabolic simulations. The ultimate goal is to improve and expand the commercial use of Actinomyces bacteria as producers of bioproducts and active agents.

Press release - 10/11/2009

Genes and proteins can’t explain everything

Andreas Wachter has been the head of the Emmy Noether research group at the Centre for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP) at the University of Tübingen since 2009. Of particular interest to Wachter are the molecular regulation mechanisms in key biological processes. He is the first person to transfer the latest insights from bacteria research to plant cells and stresses the importance of ribonucleic acid (RNA) in these vital processes.

Article - 11/03/2009

Gerd Jürgens – from model fly to model plant: a high risk career

Some scientists have a keen sense for new and exciting research topics. The developmental biologist Dr. Gerd Jürgens from Tübingen is one such scientist. His courageous step from research involving the well-known fruit fly to research on a rather inconspicuous plant has recently been rewarded with his appointment as the new director of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology.

Professor Dr. Thomas Laux from the Institute of Biology III at the University of Freiburg has been awarded the Cornelia Harte Award for his achievements on the regulation of pluripotent stem cells in the growth centres of plants.

Article - 21/01/2009

Exalon GmbH – preparation of regulatory submission packages

Exalon GmbH, based in Radolfzell, Germany has two key principles that account for its success: always keep in contact with the public authorities and always know the right doors to knock on. The company, run as a team of three, Dr. Michael Braun, Sibylle Teuchmann and Michael Zingrebe, has been supporting life sciences companies and service providers in the electronic submission of applications for obtaining marketing authorisation for medicinal…

Article - 10/03/2008

Sharks and the evolution of the locomotory apparatus

Zoologists at the University of Tübingen are investigating the biomechanics of swimming and the evolution of the muscles and tendons needed for swimming. Detailed information on how fish adapt to specific lifestyles help in the development of robot fish.

Baden-Württemberg will provide an additional 16.5 million euros for the rehabilitation of the biology building and the State Institute of Agricultural Chemistry at the University of Hohenheim both of which are central buildings required by the life science priorities.