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ABBt - Biology Department

The Aachen Biology and Biotechnology department strives for the synchronization of scientific and industrial innovation processes, in order to shorten the innovation cycle. Within the different institutes, a significant emphasis is placed on applied research, built from a strong basis of fundamental science.

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Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwaneberg

Chairholder: Professor of Biotechnology

Research focus:

Our core expertise is protein engineering by directed evolution and rational design. In five subgroups a joint research agenda is pursuit to discover fundamental protein engineering principles.

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Prof. Dr. Lothar Elling

Professor of Biomaterials

Research focus:

The aim of our research is the development and application of enzyme-module-systems for the synthesis of neoglycoconjugates and their utilization for Glyco-BioInterface Engineering - the biofunctionalization of biomaterial surfaces and biomedical diagnostics.

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Prof. Dr. Marco Oldiges

Professor of Bioprocess Analytics

Research focus:

Our expertise is microbial bioprocess development, applying bioprocess and metabolic engineering principles for small metabolite products and heterologous protein expression.

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Prof. Dr. Jan Marienhagen

Professor for Synthetic Cell Factories

Research focus:

We design and construct microbial cell factories for the production of valuable metabolites and develop molecular tools for the editing of genomes as well as biosensors for high-throughput screening on the single cell level.

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