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Tilmann Weber gave an invited talk at KAIST on June 27, 2019. His visit to KAIST took place after his participation at the 46th Annual Meeting and International Symposium of the Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology (KMB 2019) where he also gave an invited lecture. KAIST team had a chance to discuss with Tilmann for various problems of the project studies.

Charlotte Beck - PhD student at DTU Biosustain Center for Biosustainability, participated at the CeMiSt Conference on Microbial Secondary Metabolites in Microbiomes from 16th – 18th of June 2019 in Elsinore, Denmark. She presented a poster with tittle: “Improved Tools for Engineering Streptomyces” with contributions from Yaojun Tong, Sheila Ingemann Jensen, Günther Muth and Tilmann Weber.

Charlotte Beck - PhD student at DTU Biosustain Center for Biosustainability, participated at the Copenhagen Bioscience Conference on Natural Products - Discovery, Biosynthesis and Application from 5th – 9th of May 2019 in Hillerød, Denmark. She presented a poster with tittle: “A new modular plasmid vector system for engineering Streptomyces” with contributions from her colleagues Yaojun Tong, Sheila Ingemann Jensen, Günther Muth and Tilmann Weber.

Version 5 of the second metabolite tool #antiSMASH  has been redesigned and extended. The new UI and greatly reduced runtimes make it possible to deliver annotations for bacterial genomes within a few minutes. Furthermore detection rules for clusters encoding #biosynthesis of #acylaminoacids, #betalactones, #RiPPs, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, C-nucleosides, PPY-like ketones and lipolanthines and a direct link to the antiSMASH database . The paper describing the updates has just been published in Nucleic Acids Research antiSMASH 5.0: updates to the secondary metabolite genome mining pipeline 

Olga Genilloud the Scientific Director of Fundación MEDINA in Granada Spain, was a speaker at the Novel Antimicrobials and AMR Diagnostics 2019 Conference from 14-15 March in Berlin Germany. She had a talk about Antibiotic discovery from microbial natural products.

PhD student from MEDINA participated at the I Congreso de Investigadores del PTS from February 13-15, 2019 in Granada, Spain. He presented a poster with title: New analogues of nosokomycin and polycyclic xanthones with antibacterial properties from MEDINA´s actinomycetes collection with contribution from his colleagues Francisco Javier Ortiz-López, Caridad Díaz, Mercedes de la Cruz, Ignacio González, Fernando Reyes, Francisca Vicente, Olga Genilloud.

He recently presented highlights of our work from Genome-scale Metabolic Modeling package of IIMENA project at COBRA conference in Seattle, USA from 14-16 October, 2018. We are developing modeling tools with specific attention towards biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. These tools can add unique value allowing to expand applications of fast growing COBRA methods to improve production of antibiotics. It was very inspiring to listen to talks and poster presentations from some of the leaders in this highly relevant  field to his PhD project.

Check the new article In This Issue which work is explained by scientists from KAIST.