Anke Becker (born 1967 in Bad Godesberg, Germany) is a German microbiologist at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and director of the Centre for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO).
[citation needed] Anke Becker studied biology at Bielefeld University and graduated in 1991.
Becker's research focuses on the organizational principles of microbial genomes, the adaptation of microorganisms to environmental changes, and microbe-host interactions.
This includes tailored editing and modularization of bacterial genomes and design of regulatory circuits to control genetic programs.
She is spokesperson of the PROLOEWE [3] network for science communication of research projects funded by the Hessian Excellence Program (LOEWE),[4] a member of the scientific advisory board of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), and a liaison lecturer of the German National Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).