This year we expanded with a beautiful new lab on our floor in Linnaeusborg, and extra shared labs and equipment on the top floor welcoming multiple new research groups. You can read all about the expansion here. The additional lab provides us with an extra 10 fume hoods. Lots of space for growth, and with [...]
'Building molecules can be art' Synthesis of one of the most abundant organic lipids elucidates its structure Published by RUG ScienceLinx Crenarchaeol is a large, closed-loop lipid that is present in the membranes of ammonium-oxidizing archaea, a unicellular life form that exists ubiquitously in the oceans. In comparison to other archaeal membrane lipids, crenarchaeol is [...]
Prof. Minnaard and Dr. Buter (UG, Stratingh Institute ), together with Dr. van Rhijn (University of Utrecht) and Prof. Moody (Harvard), have been awarded the first NWO ENW Team Science Award. This cross-disciplinary team receives the award for the development of ‘Comparative Lipidomics, a new strategy to study pathogenic bacteria that forms the basis for novel [...]
Mira Holzheimer together with Frederiek Reijneveld and collaborators from Boston and Groningen have published their results on the synthesis and immunogenicity of M. tuberculosis born diacyl trehaloses in ACS Chem. Biol. DOI 10.1021/acschembio.0c00030 Congrats! DAT is DAT
