The next allocation of slots for S modules will take place on December 19, 2023 at 12:30 in ND 6/131. Registration forms can be downloaded below and must be submitted via email by December 15, 2023.

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Current seminar schedule for the seminar "Current Topics in Microbial and Molecular Biology"

We congratulate Dr. Marco Krewing received the GdF prize for excellent interdisciplinary dissertations at RUB during the Academic Celebration on November 24th 2021. 

Plasmas aid in wound healing, cancer therapy and pollutant degradation

Julia Bandow, Professor for Applied Microbiology, discusses the future use of plasmas in biological applications.

 Photography: © Damian Gorczany

“That was a fairly crazy idea”

Plasmas usually have destructive effects on enzymes. Here, they supply an enzyme with a building block for biocatalysis at the push of a button.

 Photography: © Damian Gorczany

Center for system-based antibiotic research (CESAR) to be established in Bochum

The search is on for structurally new active substances that can be used to combat multidrug-resistant pathogens.

Photography: © RUB, Kramer

How bacteria protect themselves against plasma treatment (in German only)

Plasmas are used, for example, in wound treatment against pathogens that are resistant to antibiotics. But bacteria may fight back.

Photography: © Daniel Sadrowski

Proteomic profiling reveals innovation potential of new antibiotics

The RUB research team intends to use proteomics to accelerate the development of new drugs.

Photography: © RUB, Marquard

Antibiotics from the bacterial world

Experts are convinced that there are undetected antibiotic substances awaiting discovery. They are getting ready to find them.

 Photography: © Damian Gorczany