During this year's graduation ceremony, the bachelor thesis of Mr. Florian Roth was awarded with the Faculty Prize. Florian contributed to a better understanding of the role of a multifunctional amino peptidase in sodium homeostasis in the human-pathogenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae:Herdan S, Kohm K, Warneke R, Roth F, Glaser N, Villani L, Rüping N, Dreher L, Görge N, Hoang TD, Schunke E, Häse C, Rappsilber J, Fritz G, Commichau FM, Gibhardt J, Steuber J (2026) The evolution of a Na-sensitive Vibrio cholerae mutant unmasks the moonlighting aminopeptidase PepA as a regulator of nhaB Na/H antiporter gene expression. J Bacteriol. In press.
June 2026
We are happy to see our model bacterium Bacillus subtilis on the cover of the current issue of MMBR! Please see also the related review article about nitrogen metabolism in B. subtilis: Gibhardt J, Lieber MM, Götz CS, Völker F, Blank LM, Forchhammer K, Jayaraman V, Noda-Garcia L, Commichau FM (2026) Moonlighting in metabolism: bifunctional enzymes control nitrogen metabolism in Bacillus subtilis. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 13: e0043025.
May 2026
Report of the VAAM special group Regulation is now online!
March 2026
Some microbiologists of the University of Hohenheim at the annual VAAM conference 2026 at the FU Berlin.
May 2025
A new doctor is born, congratulations Saba!
March 2025
Dr. Katharina Kohm receives the PhD award of the VAAM at the annual congress in Bochum! Congratulations!
Events
October 2026
The 2026 International SPP2330 Symposium on "New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-host Interactions" will take place at the Harnack Haus Berlin from October 5-7!
September 2026
The next Summer School of the VAAM special group Regulation will take place at the Center for Synthetic Microbiology at the University of Marburg from September 21. - 22.! The event will be organized by Gert Bange (Marburg) and Kai Thormann (Gießen).
