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13 Current news of Leibniz Institut DSMZ

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Textbook knowledge turned on its head: 3-in-1 microorganism discovered

Newly multifunctional bacterial species

06-Nov-2023 - A team of researchers from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ- German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH and Technische Universität Braunschweig, in collaboration with the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin, USA, has now been able to show that there is an incredibly ...

bacteria biodiversity metabolism +3
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Pharmaceutical Research for Digital Age Medicine

DSMZ scientist develops innovative screening method for medical agents

03-Aug-2022 - A team of scientists led by Professor Dr. Yvonne Mast, head of the Department of Bioresources for Bioeconomy and Health Research at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, has developed a new screening strategy for active ...

Active ingredient research digitalization screening
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Corona research: the right cell model is essential

Scientists identify three new cell lines for SARS-CoV-2 research

17-Aug-2021 - An international team led by Dr Claudia Pommerenke and Dr Cord Uphoff of the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH has identified three cell lines suitable as model system for SARS-CoV-2 research. The scientists published their findings in the journal ...

cell lines cell models coronaviruses +1
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New pathways found for biotechnological degradation of industrial waste

Microorganism breaks down phenol under extreme conditions

19-Jan-2021 - Scientists led by Dr Meina Neumann-Schaal of the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, have characterised the breakdown of phenol by Saccharolobus solfataricus. Using methods from the fields of metabolomics and ...

archaea metabolomics microorganisms +3
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Bacteria use task division when breaking down plastic

Researchers outline mechanisms of marine bacterial communities degrading plastic materials

18-Nov-2020 - A current study by Dr. Başak Öztürk and her team at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH in Braunschweig, Germany, investigated how marine organisms break down and utilise biologically degradable plastic. The researchers not only established the ...

Alphaproteobacteria bacteria biofilms +4
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New findings on regulation of bacterial antibiotic production

Scientist offers new insights into the molecular processes of antibiotic-producing Streptomyces

16-Oct-2020 - Researchers led by Prof. Yvonne Mast of the Leibniz-Institute DSZM – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, have for the first time managed to partially decipher the autoregulation of the biosynthesis of pristinamycin. This antibiotic is used as ...

antibiotics bacteria biosynthesis +2
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Looking for new antibiotics

DSMZ scientist develops innovative strategy for drug screening

14-Apr-2020 - A team of researchers led by Professor Dr. Yvonne Mast from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures in Braunschweig (Germany) have developed a new strategy for the activation of silent antibiotic gene clusters. They showed that the Streptomyces Antibiotic ...

actinomycetes antibiotics drug screening +2
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Sustainable production of an industrially relevant amino acid by fermentation

Scientist uses Synthetic Biology for the environmentally friendly production of D-phenylglycine

19-Mar-2020 - A team led by Professor Yvonne Mast from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH in Braunschweig has succeeded in establishing a fermentative pathway for the production of D-phenylglycine - an important building block for products of the ...

actinomycetes biosynthesis fermentation +2
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Bioinformatics platform for the genome-based taxonomical classification of bacteria and archaea

Researchers develop Type Strain Genome Server (TYGS)

23-May-2019 - "TYGS is an automated high-throughput platform for state-of-the-art genome-based taxonomy", is the title of the paper published in the current issue of the internationally journal Nature Communications. In this paper, Dr. Jan P. Meier-Kolthoff and Ass. Prof. Dr. Markus Göker, both of the ...

archaea bacteria bioinformatics +3
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Unlimited access to microbiological research data

Update of the freely accessible database BacDive enables access to more than 900,000 metadata

30-Apr-2019 - The scientists Dr. Lorenz Reimer, Joaquim Sardà and Prof. Dr. Jörg Overmann from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures have extended the database BacDive extensively with the update in April 2019. Since 2012, the bioinformaticians of the DSMZ have been ...

antibiotic resistance archaea bacteria +2