News and Highlights
June 2026 | Annual Group Retreat Waimés, BE |
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May 2026 | Leonie publishes a paper in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology |
December 2025 | Aileen receives the EMBO scientific exchange grant. Congratulations! |
November 2025 | Patricia gives a talk at the MOI V Symposium 2025 in Dormagen, Germany |
October 2025 | Larissa and Biel give a talk at the SPP 2330 annual meeting, Rösrath, Germany |
September 2025 | Mirco and Aileen give a talk at the SFB 1535 MibiNet retreatspp, Rösrath, Germany |
July 2025 | Aileen gives a talk at the FEMS Micro conference in Milan, Italy |
May 2025 | Johanna and Biel publish a paper in mBio https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00382-25 |
May 2025 | Aileen publishes a paper in Molecular Microbiology, doi: 10.1111/mmi.15376 |
March 2025 | Aileen gives a talk at the VAAM Bochum |
February 2025 | Moses wins award for the best short-talk during the 15th KEMRI Annual Scientific and Health Conference (KASH 2025) in Nairobi, Kenya! |
December 2024 | Philip publishes a paper in Metabolic Engineering Communications, doi: 10.1016/j.mec.2024.e00252 |
October 2024 | Bente gives a talk at the Nordinfect conference, Kiel |
October 2024 | SPP 2330 second funding period launches with kick-off meeting |
October 2024 | Aileen publishes a paper in Microbial Cell Factories, doi: 10.1186/s12934-024-02556-1 |
September 2024 | Tom wins prize for the best presentation at the Regulation in Microbes Conference, Michelsberg |
September 2024 | Sebastian and Tom publish a paper from the Going viral project in Phage, doi: 10.1089/phage.2024.0012 |
September 2024 | Bente publishes a paper in Microbiology Spectrum, doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00663-24 |
August 2024 | Larissa publishes a paper in Microlife, doi: 10.1093/femsml/uqae015 |
August 2024 | Julia publishes an editorial overview in Current Opinion in Microbiology, doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2024.102518 |
July 2024 | Sebastian successfully defends his PhD. Congratulations! |
June 2024 | Sebastian publishes a paper in Microbial Biotechnology, doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.14507 |
June 2024 | Annual Group Retreat Waimés, BE |
June 2024 | Bente gives a talk at the VAAM Würzburg |
May 2024 | Sebastian gives a talk at the Plant Macro- and Microbiomes – shaping new research frontiers, Heidelberg |
May 2024 | |
April 2024 | Tom successfully defends his PhD. Congratulations! |
March 2024 | Sebastian successfully defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations! |
March 2024 | Philipp starts as postdoc in our group |
December 2023 | Sebastian presents a poster at the Fall meeting Topic, Jülich |
October 2023 | Tom wins prize for best poster presentation at the International SPP 2330 Meeting Berlin |
October 2023 | |
October 2023 | Tom, Bente, Sebastian and Biel present posters at the International SPP 2330 Meeting Berlin |
September 2023 | Tom gives a talk at the VAAM Conference in Göttingen |
September 2023 | Sebastian presents a poster at the Plant Pathology 2023 Conference in Birmingham, UK |
September 2023 | Bente receives a poster prize at the VAAM Göttingen! |
September 2023 | Johanna, Aileen and Bente present posters at the VAAM Göttingen |
July 2023 | Aileen gives a talk at the GeCo-Meeting in Raitenhaslach |
July 2023 | Tom presents a poster at the VoM Tbilisi, Georgia |
June 2023 | Bente gives a talk at the VAAM Würzburg |
June 2023 | Aileen and Bente present a poster at the EMBL 2023 |
April 2023 | Joint group retreat with RG Wierckx in Hoogeloon, NL |
April 2023 | Tom publishes a paper in Current Opinion in Microbiology doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2023.102314 |
March 2023 | Vikas publishes a paper in Scientific Reports doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-30829-z Larissa successfully defends her PhD – Congratulations! SFB1535 MibiNet - Successful start with kick-off meeting |
January 2023 | Tom publishes a paper in microLife, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsml/uqad002
Aileen successfully defends her PhD - Congratulations! |
November 2022 | Annual Group Retreat Waimés, BE |
October 2022 | The SPP 2330 project “Going-viral 2022”, a phage-hunting experiment for school kids starts! The Annual SPP 2330 Meeting was held in Rösrath https://spp2330.de/news/annual-spp-2330-meeting-2022-2/ |
September 2022 | Aileen publishes a paper in frontiers in Microbiology, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.997448 Aileen wins a poster prize at BacNet22! |
August 2022 | Aël and Larissa publish a review in Trends in Microbiology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2022.08.001 |
June 2022 | Sebastian publishes a paper in Viruses, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/v14071449 Johanna receives a poster prize at the ISBA Meeting. Congratulations! |
April 2022 | Aël successfully defends his PhD. Congratulations! Aël and Larissa publish a paper in mbio, doi: 10.1128/mbio.00783-22 |
February 2022 | Larissa receives a prize for the best short talk at the VAAM 2022 |
January 2022 | Aileen publishes a review in FEMS Microbiology Reviews, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuac002 |
November 2021 | Roberts Paper accepted in Metabolic Engineering Communications, doi: 10.1016/j.mec.2021.e00187 |
November 2021 | Vikas publishes a paper in Microbiology Spectrum, doi: 10.1128/Spectrum.00727-21 |
November 2021 | Johanna gives a talk at the German Conference on Synthetic Biology |
November 2021 | Aileen wins the short-talk prize at the RSTiP meeting! |
November 2021 | Max gives a talk at the RSTiP meeting |
October 2021 | Robert publishes a paper in Metabolic Engineering, doi: 10.1016/j.ymben.2021.10.003 |
October 2021 | Robert graduates at the HHU Düsseldorf. Congratulations! |
October 2021 | Larissa gives a talk at the SPP 2330 Kickoff-Meeting |
October 2021 | Bente starts her PhD on the SPP 2330 project |
September 2021 | Larissas Paper accepted in Molecular Microbiology, doi 10.1111/mmi.14813 |
September 2021 | Aël gives a talk at the Biology of Bacteria Producing Natural Products Conference |
September 2021 | Aël gives a talk at the Sixth Symposium of the French PHAGE Network |
September 2021 | Aël gives a talk at the PHAVES Online Seminar Series |
July 2021 | SPP grant for Julia on Inhibition of phage infection by secondary metabolites |
July 2021 | Larissa and Aileen present a poster at the EMBL Symposium on New Approaches and Concepts in Microbiology |
June 2021 | Aël gives a talk at the World Microbe Forum |
May 2021 | Sebastian presents a poster at the 11th Symposium of the International Society of Root Research and Rooting |
March 2021 | Max publishes a paper in Viruses, doi: 10.3390/v13030495 |
February 2021 | Robert´s paper accepted in ACS Synthetic Biology, doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00599 |
September 2020 | Aël publishes a paper in Viruses, https://doi.org/10.3390/v12101065 |
September 2020 | The Frunzke lab is on Twitter https://twitter.com/FrunzkeLab |
July 2020 | Johanna publishes a paper in ACS Synthetic Biology, doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00111 |
July 2020 | Johanna graduates at the HHU Düsseldorf. Congratulations! |
May 2020 | Marc´s paper accepted in Nucleic Acids Research, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa415 |
May 2020 | New SPP on Prokaryotic Virus-Host Interaction |
May 2020 | Tom starts his PhD on the ERC project PRO_PHAGE |
March 2020 | Robert gives a talk at the “VAAM” in Leipzig |
February 2020 | Johanna publishes a paper in the Journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02273-19 |
January 2020 | Starting our school project “Going viral” in cooperation with the JuLab |
October 2019 | Max graduates at the HHU Düsseldorf. Congratulations! |
September 2019 | Robert presents a poster at the German Conference on Synthetic Biology in Aachen |
September 2019 | Max presents a poster and Johanna gives a talk at the BacNet conference in Spain |
September 2019 | Vikas and Andrei join our group as Bioinformaticians |
August 2019 | Celebrating 10 years of RG Frunzke |
August 2019 | Eugen publishes a paper in the Journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, doi 10.1128/AEM.00853-19 |
July 2019 | Johannas und Aileens paper accepted in the Journal of Bacteriology, doi: 10.1128/JB.00387-19 |
July 2019 | Aël and Robert present a poster at the ‘New Approaches and Concepts in Microbiology’ Symposium in Heidelberg |
May 2019 | Annual group retreat Schoorl, NL |
May 2019 | Max paper accepted in Frontiers in Microbiology, doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01039 |
March 2019 | Larissa, Johanna and Aileen present a poster and Marc gives a talk at the “VAAM” in Mainz |
March 2019 | Aileen and Larissa start their PhD projects on “Heme Homeostasis” and “Xenogenic silencers” |
March 2019 | Johannas and Roberts review accepted in Biotechnology journal, doi: 10.1002/biot.201800444 |
February 2019 | Eugen and Max publish a review in Journal of Molecular Biology, doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.02.011 |
February 2019 | Marcs paper accepted in Molecular Microbiology, doi: 10.1111/mmi.14226 |
February 2019 | Nadine starts as trainee in the Frunzke lab |
January 2019 | Marc graduates at the HHU Düsseldorf. Congratulations! |
October 2018 | Raphaels and Eugens paper accepted in Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-32997-9 |
October 2018 | Ael starts his PhD on the ERC project PRO_PHAGE |
September 2018 | Eugen gives an oral presentation and Johanna presents a poster at the Symposium on “Mechanisms of Gene Regulation“, Tutzing |
July 2018 | Eugen presents a poster at the “Viruses of Microbes 2018“ Meeting in Wroclaw, Poland |
July 2018 | Max presents a poster at the “Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Stress Response” in South Hadley, USA |
June 2018 | Johanna publishes an article in “ Nachrichten aus der Chemie“, https://doi.org/10.1002/nadc.20184067195 |
June 2018 | JuDocs ceremony 2018 |
June 2018 | Johanna presents a poster at the “12th Metabolic Engineering Conference”, Munich |
April 2018 | Annual group retreat Biggekerke, NL |
April 2018 | Johanna gives an oral presentation and Max presents a poster at the “VAAM 2018”, Wolfsburg |
February 2018 | Marcs paper accepted in Frontiers in Microbiology, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00183 |
January 2018 | Ulrike Viets starts as technician in the Frunzke Lab. |
January 2018 | Robert Stella starts his PhD project on “Biosensor-driven evolution". |
December 2017 | Eugens paper accepted in Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-17014-9 |
September 2017 | Johanna and Max present posters at the “7th European Conference on Prokaryotic and Fungal Genomics”, Göttingen |
September 2017 | ERC Starting Grant for Julia; project: PRO_PHAGE |
August 2017 | Eugen Pfeifer graduates at the HHU Düsseldorf. Congratulations! |
July 2017 | Isabel Huber graduates at the HHU Düsseldorf. Congratulations! |
March 2017 | Max Hünnefeld receives the VAAM Poster Award in Würzburg |
September 2016 | 1st Poster Prize for Max Hünnefeld at the Symposium on „Mechnisms of Gene Regulation“ in Bad Bergzabern |
September 2016 | Raphael and Regina present at the 6th International Bielefeld-CeBiTec Research Conference 2016, Bielefeld, Germany |
August 2016 | Group Retreat to Winterspelt (Eifel) |
July 2016 | Viruses of Microbes Meeting at the Albert Docks in Liverpool |
July 2016 | Marc presents a poster at the „Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages“ Meeting, Wisconsin, USA |
June 2016 | Regina gives an oral presentation at the 11th Metabolic Engineering Conference, Kobe, Japan |
April 2016 | Winners of the 50. BSG Frühlingslauf (7600 m): Kevin Mack, Eugen Pfeifer, Lucas Horst |
April 2016 | Arun graduates at the HHU Düsseldorf |
April 2016 | Julia was awarded with the VAAM honorary award 2016 |
April 2016 | Regina graduates at the HHU Düsseldorf |