Vinnova Grant for Yeast as Drug Discovery Platform
Florian David and Verena Siewers received a Vinnova Grant for Protein Research in Biologics in a collaboration project with Astra Zeneca.
Honorary Professor at Jiangnan University
Jens Nielsen has been appointed as Honorary Professor at Jiangnan University, which is the leading university in China in the area of Food Science and in Fermentation Technology.
Jens Nielsen in Royal Physiographic Society
Jens Nielsen has been elected into the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund
MESB Advanced Course
The biennial Advanced Course on Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology will be held at SysBio in August 2019. This course is intended for PhD students, postdocs and industrial researchers and registration is open now!
SysBio core values in Nature
Nature has just featured a correspondence piece on SysBio core values as an example of actively building a working culture based on mutual cooperation, communication and respect. “Congratulations to our Core Values Team, and all SysBio members for adopting and supporting our core values”, says Ivan Mijakovic.
Dina and Jens added: “Desired organizational culture does not occur spontaneously, it is a result of a permanent effort of the leadership and the team. In our case, we have been actively working for more than 10 years to ensure that we create and maintain the diverse culture that we can be proud of.”
Read the article “Define working culture, don’t leave it to chance”.
Yeast more efficient as cell factory
Two strategies for making yeast more efficient as a cell factories were identified. Results published in Nature Communication and Cell
The full article “Yeast more efficient as cell factory” is available on Chalmers website.
10 years anniversary of the SysBio group
About 10 years anniversary of the SysBio group read on Chalmers website.
Spikes of graphene can kill bacteria on implants
The full article “Spikes of graphene can kill bacteria on implants” is available on Chalmers website.
