Institut für Mikrobiologie und Mikrobielle Biotechnologie

Congratulations to Brigitte Gasser, Özge Ata Akyol, Burcu Gündüz Ergün, Patrick Fickers, Lina Heistinger, Diethard Mattanovich and Corinna Rebnegger for being rewarded the FEMS YEAST RESEARCH ARTICLE AWARD 2021 for their review! Great work!

Microbial production systems for biopharmaceuticals have been displaced by mammalian systems in recent years, mainly due to increased demand for antibody-based products. In most other categories, microbes have maintained their dominant position in biomanufacturing. The authors of the recent publication at IMMB demonstrate that through significant improvements around glycosylation and secretion of proteins, as well as around understanding the cellular processes antibody mimetics are promising biotherapeutics that are likely to restore demand for microbial biopharmaceutical production platforms.

At the 36th International Specialized Symposium on Yeasts (ISSY36), Vancouver (Canada), BOKU- BioToP/acib PhD student Marina Ječmenica won one of the poster prizes sponsored by the Genetics Society of America (GSA). With her contribution "Komagataella phaffii: QTL mapping for strain development" she convinced the international participants of this conference. Congratulations!