Latest News
2025
April 2025
- We are happy to announce our new publication:
How to Tell an N from an O: Controlling the Chemoselectivity of Methyltransferases
E. Jockmann, H. Girame, W. Steinchen, K. Kind, G. Bange, K. Tittmann, M. Müller, F. Feixas, M. Garcia-Borràs, J. N. Andexer, ACS Catal. 2025.
March 2025
- RG Müller and RG Andexer on the road in Budapest at Novel Enzymes 2025.
Lars presenting his poster in Budapest at Novel Enzymes 2025.
RG Müller and RG Andexer in Budapest at Novel Enzymes 2025.
- We are happy to announce our new publication:
Rewiring Escherichia coli to transform formate into methyl groups
M. K. F. Mohr, A. Satanowski, S. N. Lindner, T. J. Erb, J. N. Andexer, Microb. Cell Fact. 2025.
February 2025
- We attended the 37th Irsee Natural Product Symposium, where Lars presented his poster titled 'S-Adenosyl-L-Homocysteine Hydrolase: From Drug Target to Biocatalyst for Nucleoside Analogue Synthesis.
Lars Köppl presenting his poster at the Irsee Symposium.
Kloster Irsee
- You can now follow us on LinkedIn: Andexer Lab (Uni Freiburg).
January 2025
- Once again, we have reason to be proud. Congratulations to our dear Dr Michael Mohr.
Dr Michael Mohr - Vergatterung.
"Vergatterung" of Michi.
Vergatterung - Freiburger Münster. Next speaker is Dr Michael Karl Felix Mohr.
- We are pleased to announce our new publication, which has been labeled as a Very Important Paper by ChemBioChem:
Structural Insights into Broad-Range Polyphosphate Kinase 2-II Enzymes Applicable for Pyrimidine Nucleoside Diphosphate Synthesis
M. Kuge, M. Keppler, F. Friedrich, R. Saleem-Batcha, J. Winter, I. Prucker, P. Germer, S. Gerhardt, O. Einsle, M. Jung, H. J. Jessen, J. N. Andexer, ChemBioChem 2025.
This research article has been highlighted as VIP (Very Important Paper) in ChemBioChem.
2024
Dezember 2024
- We are very grateful for the financial support provided by the "Fonds der chemischen Industrie" for a new methods course 2025 and for the promotion of ethics at our Institute. Link
Dr. Philipp Germer, Prof. Dr. Michael Müller, Dr. Lydia Walter, Dr. Raphael Vogler.
- Group excursion to Zähringer Burg and cross-country to Gundelfingen.
Zähringer Burg.
Search Image.
Pool demonstration by Kalle.
- We are very proud of Dr Emely Jockmann and congratulate her warmly.
"Vergatterung" of Emely.
Dr Emely Jockmann - Vergatterung.
Vergatterung - Freiburger Münster.
November 2024
- Very informative and exciting presentations at the annual conference of our research group FOR 5596 in Stuttgart.
Short stop with a snowball fight on the way to Stuttgart.
Amazing and informative presentation by Agnes Bartels.
Jennifer Andexer as spokesperson for our research group FOR 5596.
Oktober 2024
- PhD candidates from the Müller and Andexer research groups attended this year’s Summer School in Hamburg as part of the FOR 5596 research consortium.
Andexer Group together with ARGUS, the first Particle Detector of "Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)".
View of Hamburg.
FOR 5596 Team with X-ray radiation source Petra III.
September 2024
- EnzymeML workshop in Rüdesheim
From left to right: doctoral researchers Max Häußler, Mehmet Ergüven, Agnes Bartels, Lars-Hendrik Köppl, and the principal investigators Prof. Dr. Jennifer Andexer and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pleiss.
- We are happy to announce our new publication:
Doping In Vivo Alkylation in E. coli by Introducing the Direct Sulfurylation Pathway of S. cerevisiae
M. Mohr, P. Benčić, J. N. Andexer, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024
July 2024
- Max Häußler at the Gordon Research Biocatalysis Conference in Boston
Max Häußler with his poster presentation on "Scalable and Reproducible Analysis of Sequence and Catalytic Data for Enzyme Engineering"
May 2024
- AK Müller and AK Andexer are back from Crete from the 4th NextGenBiocat Symposium
Group photo in a typical Cretan village
Group photo in front of the conference hall
Marco Kuge wins a poster prize with his presentation on "Exploring Diversity in PPK2 Enzyme Substrate Preferences"
March 2024
- We are pleased to announce our new publication
Structure, function and substrate preferences of archaeal S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolases
LH. Köppl, D. Popadić, R. Saleem-Batcha, P. Germer, J. N. Andexer, Commun Biol 2024
February 2024
- Start of our new DFG-funded research group FOR 5596:
Unfolding the potential of SAM-dependent enzyme chemistry. Link
Photo during the kick-off meeting in February 2024 in freiburg.
2023
November 2023
- Projekte zur digitalen und hybriden Lehre aus drei Fakultäten erhalten Lehrpreise (07.11.2023). Link
September 2023
- DFG to Fund Eight New Research Units (22.09.2023). Link
- Two new DFG research units at the University of Freiburg (22.09.2023). Link
February 2023
Im Rahmen des von der Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre geförderten Projekts 4D - 4 Dimensions of Digital and Didactic Development wurden an der Universität Freiburg drei weitere Electronic-Instructional Development Awards (E-IDAs) vergeben (27.02.2023). Link
Older News
- Outstanding Paper winners AK Andexer (08.11.2022). Link
A bicyclic S-adenosylmethionine regeneration system applicable with different nucleosides or nucleotides as cofactor building blocks
D. Popadić, D. Mhaindarkar, M. H. N. Dang Thai, H. C. Hailes, S. Mordhorst, J. N. Andexer
RSC Chem. Biol. 2022
- Universität Freiburg verleiht "E-Learning Förderpreis 2020". Link
- Q&A with Professor Jennifer Andexer and Professor Wolfgang Kroutil. Link
- Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize for Jennifer Andexer. Link
- Heisenberg-Professur für Jennifer Andexer. Link
- DECHEMA vergibt Hochschullehrer-Nachwuchspreise. Link
- Eugen-Graetz Preis 2016. Link