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Final meeting of the MultiKulti project in Essen on May 20 & 21, 202520250622120302
Final meeting of the MultiKulti project in Essen on May 20 & 21, 2025
22. June 2025Project, Projekttreffen
The final meeting of the MultiKulti project took place at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) in mid-May. The focus was on presentations on the project results of the 6 project partners and the scientific discussion. There was also a tour of the MultiKulti reactor, which is currently located at t...
Earth’s most needed uncultivated aquatic prokaryotes20250622115104
Earth’s most needed uncultivated aquatic prokaryotes
22. June 2025Publications
In April, a major review article on so far uncultivated microorganisms was published in the renowned journal Water Research, which was compiled by the entire MultiKulti team. Important uncultivated bacteria and archaea from aquatic habitats were systematically identified. The article can thus serve ...
Inferring replication states of bacteria and viruses in enrichment cultures via long-read sequencing20250622114231
Inferring replication states of bacteria and viruses in enrichment cultures via long-read sequencing
22. June 2025Publications
In March 2025, a new publication by Sophie Simon, Prof. Dr. Alexander Probst (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Dr. Michael Hügler (TZW) appeared in the journal ISME Communications, presenting a new metagenomic method for determining the activity of microorganisms in environmental samples. Metagenom...
Loading and transportation of the MultiKulti system to Essen and further sampling at the Andernach geyser20250622113010
Loading and transportation of the MultiKulti system to Essen and further sampling at the Andernach geyser
Following the successful completion and commissioning of the MultiKulti system at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the next big step was now on the agenda: loading and transportation to the University of Duisburg-Essen. While still in Nuremberg, the reactor was loaded with the ...
The MultiKulti reactor is taking shape – another milestone has been reached20250622111704
The MultiKulti reactor is taking shape – another milestone has been reached
22. June 2025Project
With the successful completion of the MultiKulti reactor and the completion of the assembly work at Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU), a decisive step has been taken on the way to commissioning. What only months ago consisted of construction plans, delivery bills and various individual parts is n...
Joint Sampling20240624141149
Joint Sampling
24. June 2024Projekttreffen, sampling
From June 10 to June 14, a joint sampling took place at the ICBM in Oldenburg as part of the MultiCultivation project, in which all project partners participated. The aim was to examine water samples from the Wadden Sea south of Spiekeroog. Each project partner contributed their respective expertise...
Exploring Andean High-Altitude Lake Extremophiles through Advanced Proteotyping20240411072208
Exploring Andean High-Altitude Lake Extremophiles through Advanced Proteotyping
11. April 2024Project
On February 20, 2024, a publication by the DLR project members Prof. Dr. Ralf Möller and Katharina Runzheimer, along with their collaborators from Germany, France, and Chile, appeared in the Journal of Proteome Research. The study focuses on the cultivation and subsequent identification of extremoph...
Project meeting in Nuremberg 05.02 – 07.02.2420240307144137
Project meeting in Nuremberg 05.02 – 07.02.24
7. March 2024Projekttreffen, reactor
The sixth project meeting of the MultiKulti team took place at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) at the beginning of February. The main focus of the meeting was on various organizational areas, but the reactor and the progress of the individual sub-projects were also discus...
Dancing the Nanopore Limbo – New publication on nanopore sequencing with low DNA input20240222160912
Dancing the Nanopore Limbo – New publication on nanopore sequencing with low DNA input
22. February 2024Publications
On 01.12.23, a publication by UDE project members Prof. Dr. Alexander Probst and Sophie Simon on the application of nanopore sequencing with very small amounts of DNA was published in BMC Genomics. Genome-resolving metagenomics has drastically changed our understanding of the ecological and genetic ...
Stefanie Feilner receives prize for her work as part of the MultiKulti project20240222143819
Stefanie Feilner receives prize for her work as part of the MultiKulti project
22. February 2024reactor, Uncategorized
Stefanie Feilner from FAU received the EnCN Energy Award in the storage category for her master’s thesis in Prof. Dr. Katharina Herkendell’s working group. In her work, she simulated the flow within our MultiKulit reactor. This confirmed observations made in the model. A spiral flow form...