Minor Tweak, Major Impact

Anna Behle studied Biology at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany. There she completed her Masters thesis at the Institute for Synthetic Microbiology led by Ilka Axmann which she also joined for her PhD two years ago. Annas work focuses on gene regulation in cyanobacteria, with a special focus on the regulation of DNA topology, which is known to be a global regulatory mechanism in the cell to sense environmental conditions such as nutrient availability and respond by adjusting gene expression of genes in different ways. Her group is working to gain an understanding in order to precisely manipulate the metabolic state of the cells.