Project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

This project is part of the German-Israeli Project Cooperation (DIP) and is funded by the DFG from January 2020 to December 2024. Our group is closely working together in a research venture with Prof. Itzik Mizrahi of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

Although the microbial degradation of plant fiber components (e.g. cellulose, hemicellulose) is a key factor of the global carbon cycle and essential for terrestrial food chains, its guiding principles are not disclosed in detail yet. A promising method for investigating potent fiber degraders in their natural habitats is a combined metaproteomics-metagenomics approach. Our group is working on the establishment, optimization and application of the MS-based metaproteome analysis.

This project is funded by the German Research Foundation from 2020 to 2024.

• Project B2 “In situ mechanisms of polysaccharide degradation of key bacteroidetal genera in spring algae blooms” together with Dr. Bernhard Fuchs (MPI Marine Microbiology Bremen).  

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This project is funded by the German Research Foundation from 2017 to 2023.

• Project Z “Proteomics and Peptidomics for the identification and functional characterization of sORF coded proteins” together with Prof. Dr. Andreas Tholey (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel.  

More detailed project information can be found here.