Poster award for Robert Westphal

Robert Westphal was awarded with one of three poster pices for his poster „Transfer of the S-pocket concept: engineering stereoselectivity by structure-based design of MenD from Escherichia coli“ on the conference Trends in Enzymology 2012 in Göttingen (Germany).

Robert Westphal’s project is part of the research group „Diversity of Asymmetric Thiamine Catalysis“ (http://thiamine-diversity.uni-freiburg.de/index.php), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The project studies factors influencing the stereoselectivity of thiamine-diphosphate dependent enzymes. The carboligation activity of these enzymes is important to produce building blocks e.g. for pharmaceuticals.