Applied Microbiology

Kathrin I Mohr studied Biology at the TU Braunschweig. While doing Post doctorate, she investigated the biodiversity of algae and cyanobacteria in calcifying biofilms and in soil crusts from Namibia and South Africa at the University of Göttingen. Since 2009 she works as a Scientist at the Helmholtz Centre forInfectionResearch,Department Microbial Drugs, Braunschweig. Her main focus is set on the isolation of myxobacteria and their screen and enhancement of production of new and known secondary metabolites. She is the author and co-author of about 30 papers in reputed journals.