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07/2025

A warm welcome to Celina Noack!

05/2025

A warm welcome (back) to Nina Hünemörder and good luck with your promotion!

We congratulate Lara-Sophie Scholz, Rosa Marlene Schneider, Luca Maria Könemann and Felix Maximilian Grafe as well as all other graduates on the successful completion of their theses and wish them all the best for the future!

01/2025

A warm welcome to Lea Ueberham, who will be working as scientific coordinator in the graduate school AGRIPOLY II!

11/2024

We welcome Lara-Sophie Scholz, Rosa Marlene Schneider, Luca Maria Könemann and Felix Maximilian Grafe and wish them every success with their theses!

10/2024

Congratulations to Florian Stadler on winning the Young Talent Award at the Central German Nutrition Summit!

09/2024

Congratulations to Luise Ernst on the successful completion of her doctorate!

08/2024

A warm welcome to Angelina Schneider!

07/2024

A warm welcome (back) to Finja Schendzielorz!

06/2024

Florian Stadler starts his doctorate, welcome (back) and good luck!

05/2024

We congratulate Nina Hünemörder, Zoe Jentzsch, Viktoria Kinscher, Anna Schoolmann, Florian Stadler and Florian Zick as well as all other graduates on the successful completion of their diploma thesis!

04/2024

Beatrix Hopfe and Ludovica Tozzi tart their Master's thesis, welcome!

Latest publications

Brand, N., Stadler, F. M., Hahn, L., Borisova, Z., Wefers, D.*  Fermentative in situ synthesis of isomalto/malto-polysaccharides in  sourdough. Food Chem. 2025, 488, 144846.

Brand, N., Wefers, D.* Screening of 14 lactic acid bacteria for fermentative isomalto/malto-polysaccharide synthesis. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2025, 73, 2970-2977.

Kersten,  F., Martin, D., van der Schaaf. U. S.*, Wefers, D.* Gum Arabic – Same  but different: Comparative analysis of structural characteristics and  emulsifying properties of 20 Acacia senegal samples of various  qualities. Food Hydrocolloids 2025, 165, 111231.

Müller, O., Wefers, D.* Detailed insights into the oligo- and polymeric products formed by three recombinant dextransucrases. Carbohydr. Res. 2025, 555, 109559.

Ernst, L., Offermann, H., Werner, A., Wefers, D.* Comprehensive structural characterization of water-soluble and water-insoluble homoexopolysaccharides from seven lactic acid bacteria. Carbohydr. Polym. 2024, 323, 121417.

Ernst, L., Schulz, C., Petzold, A., Thurn-Albrecht, T., Saalwächter, K., Wefers, D.* Detailed structural characterization of five water-insoluble α‑glucans produced by Streptococcus glucansucrases. Carbohydr. Polym. 2024, 337, 122164.

Gerhäuser,  J.*, Hale, J., Wefers, D., Gaukel, V. Furcellaran: Impact of  concentration, rheological properties and structure on ice  recrystallization inhibition activity, Biomacromolecules 2024, 25, 4535-4544.

Hale,  J., Furch, A., Gerhäuser, J., Gaukel, V.*, Wefers, D.* Ice  recrystallization inhibition activity of chemically defined  carrageenans. Food Hydrocolloids 2024, 157, 110423.

Hale,  J., Gerhäuser, J., Gaukel, V., Wefers, D.* Commercially available  carrageenans show broad variation in their structure, composition, and  functionality. Eur. Food Res. Technol., in press.

Hassler,  V., Brand, N., Wefers, D.* Isolation and characterization of  exopolysaccharides from kombucha samples of different origins. Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 2024, 267, 131377.

Müller, O., Wefers, D.* High-yield production of completely linear dextrans and isomalto-oligosaccharides by a truncated dextransucrase from Ligilactobacillus animalis TMW 1.971. Carbohydr. Res. 2024, 545, 109284.

Sarang, S., Ernst, L., Wefers, D., Kulkarni, R.* Characterization of the first inulosucrase from Lactiplantibacillus plantarum. Food Chem. 2024, 453, 139597.

Smollich, M.*, Wefers, D. Hochverarbeitete Lebensmittel und Gesundheit: Differenzieren statt Dämonisieren. Aktuelle Ernährungsmedizin 2024, 49, 397-417.