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05.12.2025 To celebrate a successful year, our wonderful Lindlich community came together for festive science presentations and a follow-up party! We started off with our annual tradition of a Glühwein-infused Pathday, where pathway enthusiasts shared whacky ideas of growth-coupling and moonshot potential production routes. Following this, we played our highly anticipated game of Meme Santa, where each lab member was assigned a name to create a meme about. We had lots of well

04.12.2025 In our lab, we are developing high tech solutions by rewiring bacterial metabolism to serve completely new tasks. For these technologies to change the world, there is still a long way to go. Not so long ago, water management was such high a tech solution, while now it is routinely applied - at least in our home, Berlin. To understand the scale and details of this process, we visited the biggest water treatment plant in the west of Berlin – built by the United State

24.11.2025 Growth-coupled bioproduction is a powerful strategy that links production to metabolic activity. However, we frequently encounter misunderstandings when discussing this concept with bioprocess engineers. This motivated us to write this article , to iron out any misunderstandings arising from the terminology. Here, we clarify these misconceptions and explain the advantages of such metabolic setups, using nature’s most striking examples of growth-coupled bioproductio

05.11.2025 On November 4th and 5th, the Microbiology Society Annual Meeting in Ireland took place in Athlone, in the very heart of Ireland.
The conference covered a wide range of topics within microbiology research, mainly focused on the work being carried out in Ireland, while also promoting new collaborations, ideas, and interdisciplinarity. Amelia Cox-Fermandois, one of our PhD students, attended the event to present her previous work from her Biotechnology Engineering stu

20.08.2025 Jan successfully defended his PhD Thesis titled "Engineering Synthetic Metabolism to Control Cellular Carbon and Energy Flow" in Marburg. The whole Lindlich lab used this opportunity for a field trip, to visit colleagues and friends at the Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology all closed by a wild celebration dance through the night at Café Trauma.

18.07.2025 Daniel and Lena with their Poster prizes in the iconic Charité foyer! The Institute of Biochemistry at Charité –...

01.05.2025 Tong surrounded by the Lindlichs Under a bright and sunny day, Tong successfully defended his PhD thesis at Freie Universität...

11.03.2025 Jan's Inflection Award announcement poster To limit global warming, emissions need to reach net zero by 2050— with one-third...

10.03.2025 Stefan pitching Nucleate at VentureCafe: Life Sciences 2025 Stefan Hristov, a PhD student in our lab, has been appointed Head...

Retrospective for 24.09.2024 Tong delivering his talk. By presenting a synthetic formaldehyde assimilation route, Tong Wu received the '...