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Moritz Koch wins Matariki contest

19.01.2022 CMFI News

Moritz Koch, former PhD student with CMFI-PI Karl Forchhammer, won the Matariki Three Minute Thesis contest.

Please find the full news text below [only German].

 

Nachdem Dr. Moritz Koch, Alumnus des Interfakultären Instituts für Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin Tübingen (IMIT), im Oktober 2021 den 1. Platz beim Three Minute Thesis Wettbewerb des Matariki Netzwerkes belegt hatte, konnte er am 17. Januar 2022 persönlich die Auszeichnung entgegennehmen. 

 

Im Kleinen Senat der Universität Tübingen gratulierten Prof. Dr. Peter Grathwohl (Prorektor für Forschung und Innovation) sowie Prof. Dr. Thilo Stehle (Dekan der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät) dem Preisträger und überreichten ihm das Zertifikat für den 1. Platz. Beim Three Minute Thesis Wettbewerb präsentieren Promovierende der Mitgliedsuniversitäten des Matariki Netzwerks (https://www.matarikinetwork.org/) ihre Forschungsthemen einem fachfremden Publikum in 3-minütigen Videos. 

Moritz Koch überzeugte die Jury mit einem Beitrag zu seinem Promotionsthema “Using metabolic engineering strategies to improve phototrophic cyanobacteria for the production of sustainable, biodegradable bioplastics”. Die Universität Tübingen stellte damit direkt im ersten Jahr ihrer Teilnahme am Wettbewerb den Gewinner. Wir gratulieren!

Alle Beiträge des Matariki Three Minute Thesis Wettbewerbs sind über die Webseite des Netzwerks verfügbar: https://www.matarikinetwork.org/research/3-minute-thesis-competition-3mt/.

Ausführlicher Bericht zum Matariki Wettbewerb: https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/aktuelles-und-publikationen/attempto-online/forschung/newsfullview-attempto-forschung/article/erfolg-fuer-die-universitaet-tuebingen-beim-matariki-three-minute-thesis-wettbewerb/

(Text: Martina Bross)

Moritz Koch ist ehemaliger Doktorand von CMFI-PI Karl Forchhammer.


Verwandte Publikationen:

Orthwein T, Scholl J, Spät P, Lucius S, Koch MMacek B, Hagemann M, Forchhammer K. The novel PII-interactor PirC identifies phosphoglycerate mutase as key control point of carbon storage metabolism in cyanobacteria. PNAS 118(6): e2019988118. (2021) doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2019988118.

Koch M, Bruckmoser J, Scholl J, Hauf W, Rieger B, Forchhammer K. Maximizing PHB content in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: a new metabolic engineering strategy based on the regulator PirC. Microb Cell Fact 19: 231. (2020) doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-020-01491-1.

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