scholar and teacher of all things tiny - microbiologist
postdoc in #microbiology, based in #Münster (Germany), formerly postdoc in Bill Mohn's lab @UBC Vancouver
Private account: @Jo_o
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| GitHub | https://github.com/Holert |
| Reasearchgate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Johannes-Holert |
| Google Scholar | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JzgMGa8AAAAJ&hl=en |
| Pronoun | he/him |
Last week, we presented our new NWE #Interreg project #PREWAPHARM at the Campus Earth day at the University of #Münster. Turns out that many people are already aware of the problems that #pharmaceutical residues can cause in our #water bodies and we had some great discussion on ways to solve this problem. In PREWAPHARM, we are working on microbial solutions to remove harmful compounds directly at the source, e.g. hospitals, care facilites, remote communities.
Very exited to be back in #bochum for the #VAAM2025 meeting. Looking forward to many interesting sessions and talks. See you there
Personal crises keep you awake at night? the current political climate doesn't let you sleep? your children turn night into day?
Grow up some Chlamydomonas cultures, grap the closest microscope, and start counting.
1 green algae, 2 green algae, 3 green algae, ...
#microbiology #algae #microscopy
And when you wake up the next day, don't forget to keep fighting against prejudice, injustice and #fcknzs. And remember that you love your children
Beautiful iridescent colonies of a #Pseudomonas and a #Novosphingobium strain on minimal medium agar plates with benzoate
Taking a deep dive into the history of #microbiology in our Interspecies Interactions lab course, repeating one of the seminal experiments by Kenneth Nealson et al from the 1970s, which finally led to the discovery of bacterial communication and quorum sensing. The students had some extra fun with the bioluminescent Vibrio #bacteria we used for the experiment
It's official, the final version of our newest research is out in The ISME Journal: "Bacteria use a catabolic patchwork pathway of apparently recent origin for degradation of the synthetic buffer compound TRIS"
Read all about how #Pseudomonas and other #bacteria have learned to eat our well-beloved #TRIS buffer.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrad023
#microbiology #catabolism #ISME #HGT #plasmid #OA #evolution
It’s this magical time of the year when #snowballs start growing in you culture tubes and you wonder what kind of #fungus contaminated your negative control
