Curriculum vitae

Professional Career
2021 Postdoc, Junior research group Synthetic Microbiology, Leibniz-HKI
2020–2021 Postdoc, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich (Prof. Dr. Julia Vorholt)
2016–2020 PhD, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich (Prof. Dr. Julia Vorholt)
2010–2015 BSc and MSc in Interdisciplinary Sciences (major Biology and Chemistry), ETH Zurich
2004–2008 Apprenticeship as IT systems engineer, Switzerland
Awards · Appointments · Scientific Activities
2023 Member of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM)
2021–2023 Postdoc.Mobility fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

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Publications

Zdouc M, Blin K, Louwen NLL, ..., Hemmann JL, Klapper M, ..., Weber T, Medema M (2024) MIBiG 4.0: Advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation through global collaboration. Nucleic Acids Res 53(D1), D678-D690.
Hemmann JL, Keller P, Hemmerle L, Vonderach T, Ochsner AM, Bortfeld-Miller M, Günther D, Vorholt JA (2023) Lanpepsy is a novel lanthanide-binding protein involved in the lanthanide response of the obligate methylotroph Methylobacillus flagellatus. J Biol Chem 299(3), 102940.
Hemmann JL, Brühwiler MR, Bortfeld-Miller M, Vorholt JA (2021) Structural diversity of the coenzyme methylofuran and identification of enzymes for the biosynthesis of its polyglutamate side chain. J Biol Chem 296, 100682.
Hemmann JL, Wagner T, Shima S, Vorholt JA (2019) Methylofuran is a prosthetic group of the formyltransferase/hydrolase complex and shuttles one-carbon units between two active sites. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 116(51), 25583-25590.
Hemmann JL, Saurel O, Ochsner AM, Stodden BK, Kiefer P, Milon A, Vorholt JA (2016) The One-carbon Carrier Methylofuran from Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 Contains a Large Number of α- and γ-Linked Glutamic Acid Residues. J Biol Chem 291(17), 9042-9051.