Management
Prof. Dr. Hermann Aberle

Research and teaching focus

• Drosophila neurogenetics
• Nervous system
• Axon guidance
• Cell migration
• Neuromuscular synapses

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Management
apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Joachim (Yogi) Altschmied & Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Judith (Jojo) Haendeler

Research and teaching focus

• Cardiovascular Aging
• Endothelial Cell Biology
• Mitochondria
• Signal Transduction and Transcriptional Regulation
• Cell and Molecular Biology

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Management
Prof. Dr. Renu Batra-Safferling

Research and teaching focus

• Protein Crystallography
• Protein structure-function relationships
• Enzyme kinetics
• Blue-Light Photoreceptors
• Arrestin-GPCR Interaction

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Management
Prof. Dr. Martin Beye

Research and teaching focus

• Social behavior
• Neuro genetics
• Genome biology
• Cell & molecular biology
• Evolution & developmen

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Management
apl. Prof. Andrew Dingley

Research and teaching focus

• Structural biology
• Antimicrobial proteins and peptides.
• Proteins associated with neurological disorders
• Protein-protein, -ligand and -lipid interactions
• Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy

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Management
apl. Prof. Dr. Charlotte Esser

Research and teaching focus

• Basics of immunology
• Aryl hydrocarbon receptor
• Microbiome measurement in barrier organs
• The gut-skin axis
• Immunotoxicology of PFAS chemicals

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Management
Prof. Dr. Michael Feldbrügge

Research and teaching focus

• Microbial RNA and Cell biology
• Fungal biotechnology
• Plant pathogenicity
• Microbial Interactions

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Management
apl. Prof. Dr. Ursula Nicole Fleig

Research and teaching focus

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Management
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Fraune

Research and teaching focus

• Host-Microbe Interaction
• Evolution of innate immunity
• Ecological developmental biology
• Marine ecology
• Cnidaria as model systems

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Management
Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer

Research and teaching focus

• Molecular physiology
• Transport proteins
• Plasmodesmata
• Plant Pathogen interactions
• Genome editing

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Management
apl. Prof. Dr. Sven B. Gould

Research and teaching focus

• Eukaryotic microbiology
• Evolutionary cell biology
• Major evolutionary transitions
• Mitochondrial and plastid function
• Bioenergetic membranes

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Management
Prof. Dr. Guido Grossmann

Research and teaching focus

• Cell polarity
• Intra- and intercellular signal transduction
• Plant-microbe interactions
• Microfluidics
• Advanced light microscopy

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Management
Prof. Dr. Henrike Heise

Research and teaching focus

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Management
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoyer

Research and teaching focus

• Protein structure
• Mechanisms of protein assembly
• Protein oligomers
• Disease-associated amyloid formation
• Inhibition of amyloid formation

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Management
Prof. Dr. Thomas Klein

Research and teaching focus

• cell and molecular biology
• Protein structure and trafficking
• Cell signalling
• epithelial polarity and proliferation
• neural stem cells

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Management
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Lammert

Research and teaching focus

• Animal and Human Physiology
• Drug Development
• Biomedicine
• Cardiovascular Research
• Diabetes Research

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Management
Prof. Dr. Eva Nowack

Research and teaching focus

• Evolutionary cell biology
• Protists
• Endosymbiosis
• Paulinella chromatophora
• Trypanosomatids

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Management
Prof. Dr. Klaus Pfeffer

Research and teaching focus

• Host-pathogen interactions
• Microbiome
• Model systems for infectious diseases
• Immune defence in infections
• Intracellular pathogens

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Management
Prof. Dr. Simone Prömel

Research and teaching focus

• G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling and activity
• Physiological functions of GPCRs
• Metabolism
• Model organisms
• Cell and molecular biology
   

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Management
Prof. Dr. Christine R. Rose

Research and teaching focus

• Cellular Neurophysiology
• Ion signalling in vertebrate neurons and glial cells
• Role of astrocytes and neuron-glia interaction at synapses
• Function of glutamatergic synapses
• Pathophysiology of brain ischemia and stroke
   

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Management
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Simon

Research and teaching focus

• plant stem cells
• plasmodesmata
• intercellular signalling
• plant cell biology
• plant development

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Management
Prof. Dr. Oliver H. Weiergräber

Research and teaching focus

• X-ray crystallography
• Structural Biology
• Autophagy and its modulation
• Biocatalysers
• Protein aggregation
   

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Management
Prof. Dr. Dieter Willbold

Research and teaching focus

• Structural biology
• Amyloid formation, structure and clearance
• Neuropathic pain
• All-D-peptides for drug development
• NMR spectroscopy
   

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Management
Prof. Dr. Matias Zurbriggen

Research and teaching focus

• Synthetic Biology
• Optogenetics
• Synthetic Reconstruction Biology
• Animal and plant molecular and cell biology
• Cybergenetics, Cell and Tissue Engineering

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