Coordinatorfund of the Priority Programme "Radicals in Enzymatic Catalysis"

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Buckel
• Subject Area: Metabolism, Biochemistry and Genetics of Microorganisms
• Term: from 2003 to 2007
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5411678

Currently our programme is composed of 20 different groups ranging from theoretical chemistry, spectroscopy, organic and inorganic chemistry to biochemistry and microbiology. In every group about two young co-workers are involved in the project, mainly as graduate students or postdocs. In order to promote cooperation between these diverse subjects, we want to provide a workshop, in which the different methods of each field are presented by experts to the young members of the programme. Thus a microbiologist will learn the methods and problems of the various spectroscopic techniques. The chemists and physicists will be introduced into the isolation of microorganisms and purification of enzymes. Mechanisms proposed by biochemists will be validated by theoretical calculations. In addition, visits of different laboratories should be promoted in order to get an idea e.g. how a high field EPR-spectrometer will work and what kind of samples are required.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 1071: Radikale in der enzymatischen Katalyse