Congratulations to our VAAM PhD Awardees 2025:

Dr. Katharina Kohm, Universität Hohenheim: The Bacillus phage SPJJ: A model system to studythe lysis-lysogeny regulatory network and antiphage defense systems.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Fabian Commichau

Dr. Elena Seibel, HKI / Universität Jena: Ecology and Genome-guided Isolation of Novel Natural Products from the Actinobacterial Genus Amycolatopsis.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christine Beemelmanns

Dr. Daniel Stukenberg, SYNMIKRO / Universität Marburg: Establishing the fast-growing bacteriumVibrio natriegens as a next-generation chassis for synthetic biology.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anke Becker

Dr. Robert Warneke, Universität Göttingen: Function and homeostasis of non-proteinogenic amino acids in Bacillus subtilis.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jörg Stülke

Foto: S. Haag-Richter/ VAAM

We thank our sponsors of VAAM Research Awards 2025: BASF SE, Evonik Operations GmbH, New England Biolabs, IBWF (Institut für Biotechnologie und Wirkstoff-Forschung, Mainz), and vermicon AG.

VAAM members can submit substantiated proposals for the award of a VAAM PhD Award in electronic form to the VAAM office by 31 December 2024.

The awards are endowed with 2000 euros each and will be awarded at the VAAM Annual Conference in Bochum.
The nominee must be a member of the VAAM at the time of nomination.

The dissertation should be assigned to one of the subfields of general and applied microbiology and should have been completed in 2024 and evaluated with distinction.

Documents to be submitted (each as PDF):
- A proposal report including a justification
- A further review by a university lecturer
- Curriculum vitae
- Brief summary
- Publications (list of publications, the articles as PDF)
- Dissertation

Prof. Dr. Jörg Stülke
Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik
Abt. Allgemeine Mikrobiologie
Universität Göttingen
Grisebachstrasse 8
37077 Göttingen
Tel: +49 (0)551-3933781
e-mail: jstuelk@gwdg.de