Poster award for Solvej Siedler

Solvej Siedler won the poster award in the category „Metabolic Engineering for Chemicals and Materials“ with her contribution entitled “Improved product-per-glucose yield in a reductive whole-cell biotransformation with Escherichia coli” at the „Metabolic Engineering IX“-conference in Biarritz, France. The award was sponsored by the journal “Metabolic engineering” and is endowed with 500 $.

Metabolic Engineering awards two Young Investigator Awards

The project of Solvej Siedler is part of the technology platform for “Biokatalyse NRW, Redoxcell” and is focused on the application of cofactor-regeneration for whole-cell biocatalysis. Her efforts to engineer the metabolism of Escherichia coli finally doubled the product per cosubstrate ratio, which in turn might help to produce cheaper building blocks for the pharmaceutical industry.