Institut für Systembiotechnologie

Welcome at iSBio

Biotechnology has the potential to revolutionize industrial production - the team headed by Prof. Christoph Wittmann works in the heart of this exciting development. We design and develop cell factories to tailor the synthesis of valuable products - high-end healthcare ingredients, large volume platform chemicals, and smart bio-materials. For this we optimize metabolic pathways and their control in microorganisms and equip them even with new abilities – our leading approaches of systems metabolic engineering and synthetic biology make this possible. Furthermore, we use our "synthetic bugs" to develop innovative, environmentally friendly value chains. The synthesis of the future uses renewable raw materials - we too.

Latest Publications

  • Gemperlein, K, Dietrich, D, Kohlstedt, M, Zipf, G, Bernauer, H, Wittmann, C, Wenzel, S, Müller, R (2019)

    Polyunsaturated fatty acid production by Yarrowia lipolytica employing designed myxobacterial PUFA synthases

    Nat. Comm. In press.

  • Becker, J, Wittmann, C (2019)

    Pathways at Work – Metabolic Flux Analysis of the Industrial Cell Factory Corynebacterium glutamicum.

    Microbiol. Monogr. In press.

  • Gießelmann, G, Dietrich, D, Jungmann, L, Kohlstedt, M, Jeon, EJ, Yim, SS, Sommer, F, Zimmer, D, Mühlhaus, T, Schroda, M, Jeong, KJ, Becker, J, Wittmann, C (2019)

    Metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for high-level ectoine production – design, combinatorial assembly and implementation of a transcriptionally balanced heterologous ectoine pathway.

    Biotechnol. J. In press

iSBio News

Excellent: Best Poster Award for Michael Kohlstedt

Michael Kohlstedt was awarded with the best poster award at the HIPS Symposium, 27-28. July 2019 to highlight his innovative research on the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Every year in Germany alone, thousands of people die from infections that are caused by this bacterium....

mehr

Judith Becker receives the research price of the Hans-and-Ruth Giessen Foundation

Judith Becker from the Institute of System Biotechnology of Saarland University was awarded the price and 20.000 € for her excellent research on tailor-made cell factories. The patronage of the award ceremony on June 13, 2019 in St. Ingbert had taken over Prime Minister Tobias Hans. In her...

mehr

iSBio on TV: Aroma research broadcast in the science magazine Xenius

The ZDF spent a whole day in our laboratories in June to present our research on the fermentation of cocoa beans for its science magazine Xenius. In this way we clarify the basics for the formation of taste in the production of chocolate - in which microorganisms play an important role, as they do...

mehr

Alle Artikel in der Übersicht

New face at iSBio

"Hello, my name is Kyoyoung Seo from South Korea. I got my Bachelor degree in Molecular biotechnology at Hankuk University of Foreign studies. For my master degree, I came to Germany and studied in Microbiology at Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena. ..."  [more]

Welcome Iza!

"Hello! My name is Izabook Gutierrez. In January of this year I obtained my Master degree in Biotechnology at Santo Tomas University in Santiago de Chile. Due to my enthusiastic curiosity, I was occupied by many activities during my life: nursing, arts, design, botany, among others, ..."  [more]

Straight from the lab

  New ion chromatography for production
  characterization

In April, we received a new instrument for the analysis of ions in fermentation samples. Ions play an important role in many of our cell factories and manufacturing processes. They are essential nutrients for cell growth, building blocks for valuable products and regulators of cellular processes ... [more]