Amelia will relocate to the University of Massachusetts Amherst for a 6 months period. Her stay at UMASS is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. During this time, Amelia will learn how to metabolically engineer Clostridium ljungdahlii. This stay is part of the project Microbial chemical plants.
I went to Leipzig to discuss a new collaborative project with my old collaborators (Niculina Musat, Hryhoriy Stryhanyuk, Florin Musat and Hans Richnow) and our new collaborator from MPI Bremen, Prof. Friedrich Widdel. Lots of exciting science was discussed, and we’re ready to learn more about corrosion by methanogens, together.
On the 8th of December, I participated in the poster session of the Lecturer Training Program at SDU. I presented the poster attached, which discusses how students could use spaced-repetition to learn biochemistry concepts.
I went to a course held by Donna Hurfort at SDU on Questioning and it’s impact on learning and teaching. This course concludes my Lecturer Training Program training at SDU. Soon, I should be a certified University teacher – at least in the nordic countries where this certification is required.
Here is a link to the course, if you’re interested to learn more about it.
I visited A/Prof. Cornelia Welte, and Prof. Mike Jetten at Radboud University Nijmegen to establish a future collaboration with their labs. With this occasion I gave a talk about DIET and discussed the possible electron uptake mechanism in methanogens.
Just a day after the KNVM Microbial Ecology meeting took place where I gave a speech about DIET in anaerobic microorganisms. The meeting although small, it’s been a great success and you can follow it on tweeter searching for #KNVM and see it on periscopetv. The dutch impressed me not only with their science but also with their welcoming nature. We had some great dinners together where I met other great scientists.
I’m very thankful to Soehngen Institute for Anaerobic Microbiology (SIAM) which supported my trip down there and Cornelia for applying for the SIAM grant. Cannot wait to do some science together.
