New in Angewandte 🔥: With two engineered changes, we reprogram mammalian fatty acid synthase to make pyrones instead of fatty acids! 🧬 Congrats Felix, Nadja & Caro! We delete the processing part + tweak the KS pocket, even mimicking PKS-like initiation. Paper: doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Great meeting in Shenzhen by @asm.org and SIAT! Really appreciated the microbiology insights — amazing how central microbes are to so many of today’s challenges. @vscooper.micropopbio.org @rebeleinlab.bsky.social @helgebode.bsky.social @friedrich-group.bsky.social www.greeninger-chemistry.com/

📝 Online now - the Review "Molecular mechanisms of the mammalian fatty acid cycle" from Christian Gusenda and @m-grininger.bsky.social. #FattyAcidBiosynthesis #FattyAcidSynthase #FAS #mFAS #AcylCarrierProtein #ACP Read it here 👉 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

📣 Open call for a Full Professorship (W3) in Organic Synthesis. 🌍 University Frankfurt, Germany 🗓️ Application Deadline approaching: 23rd of May Join one of Germany’s leading universities. @goetheuni.bsky.social #ScienceCareers #JobOpportunity #FacultyPosition #OrganicChemistry

Excited to share my first post on Bluesky: I’ve recently been appointed as a Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt! 🎉 The Stephan Lab will use advanced bioimaging 🔬🧫 to explore how organelles collaborate to maintain subcellular architecture and metabolism.

📢 The University of Frankfurt (Germany) is hiring a Full Professor in Organic Synthesis -->Cutting-edge research in an open, collaborative environment? Check out the call and join one of Germany’s leading research universities. #AcademicJobs #FacultyPosition www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🚗💥 Henry Ford’s car assembly line is the perfect analogy for how nature builds polyketide natural compounds. But can we rearrange nature's assembly lines to make novel polyketides? 🔬 Recent breakthroughs are promising 📖 Read my perspective on how this vision is becoming reality. rdcu.be/ei12O