Research Topics

The major topics currently under investigation in our laboratory are

Research Tools

We use the following tools for our laboratory work:

• modern molecular cloning methods (BioBrick assembly, Gibson & Aqua Cloning)
• report-gene activity measurements
• RNA analysis (purification, hybridization, qPCR, in-line probing)
• RNA interaction with RNA, proteins, ligands
• recombinant protein expression in E. coli and cyanobacteria
• protein purification and characterization (interaction studies, activity assays)
• metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria
• phenotypic analysis of cyanobacterial mutants

We use the following tools for our computational work:

• In silico cloning with SnapGene
• Data analyses with Python 3 and Jupyter Notebook/Lab
• Data analyses with R and RStudio
• Sequence alignments with BLAST and CLUSTAL Omega
• Flux Balance Analysis with COBRApy
• Containerization with Docker
• In silico evolution experiments with Avida