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
Prof. Dr. Oliver Ebenhöh

Research and teaching focus

• Photosynthesis
• Microbial growth and regulation of metabolism
• Ecosystems theory
• Time-series analysis
• Polymer biochemistry

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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. Markus Kollmann

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Management
Prof. Dr. Maria von Korff Schmising

Research and teaching focus

• Quantitative genetics and genomics of plants
• Evolution and domestication
• Development and stress adaptation in crop plants (barley)
• Ecological plant genetics
• Molecular biology

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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. Martin Lercher

Research and teaching focus

• computational models of metabolism and cellular growth
• computational models of plant growth
• AI predictions of protein-small molecule interactions
• evolutionary genomics
• the creative side of the scientific process

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Management
Prof. Dr. William F. Martin

Research and teaching focus

• Early evolution
• Origin of life
• Origin of metabolism through H₂-dependent CO₂ reduction at hydrothermal vents on early Earth
• Cell and genome evolution
• Endosymbiosis

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Management
Prof. Dr. Laura Rose

Research and teaching focus

• Population genetics
• Plant-microbe interactions
• Evolutionary genomics
• Host-parasite coevolution
• Plant Ecology

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Management
Prof. Dr. Björn Usadel

Research and teaching focus

• Bioinformatics
• Data Science and AI
• Genome Biology
• Plant Biochemistry
• Plant molecular Biology

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Management
Prof. Dr. Andreas Weber

Research and teaching focus

• Photosynthetic carbon assimilation
• Synthetic biology for improvement of photosynthesis
• Evolution of photosynthetic pathways and organelles
• Cell- and molecular biology
• Plant Physiology

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Management
apl. Prof. Dr. Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters

Technology and teaching focus

• Advanced light microscopy
• Super-resolution microscopy
• Imaging spectroscopy
• Electron microscopy & sample preparation
• Image data management and analysis

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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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