The research group is thus awarded for its outstanding work and publication “Secondary nucleotide messenger c-di-GMP exerts a global control on natural product biosynthesis in streptomycetes” in the journal “Nucleic Acid Research“, carried out by Dr. Roman Makitrynskyy, Olga Tsypik, Desirée Nuzzo of the working group in cooperation with Dr. Thomas Paululat, head of NMR facilities and research associate at the University of Siegen, and Prof. Dr. David L. Zechel, Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada under the direction of Prof. Dr. Andreas Bechthold.