This focus area explores molecular principles of pathogenicity and interactions—from life’s origins to today’s challenges in human and plant health. It suits students eager to decode and shape the dynamics of living systems.
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Cell Biology & Biomedicine
Synthetic Biology & Biotechnology
Microbiology
Management
Prof. Dr. Michael Feldbrügge
Research and teaching focus
- Microbial RNA and Cell biology
- Fungal biotechnology
- Plant pathogenicity
- Microbial Interactions
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Cell Biology & Biomedicine
Eukaryotic Microbiology
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Cell Biology & Biomedicine
Zoology and Organismic Interactions
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
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Cell Biology & Biomedicine
Genome Biology & AI in Life Sciences
Plant Sciences - Securing food in a changing climate
Synthetic Biology & Biotechnology
Molecular Physiology
Management
Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer
Research and teaching focus
- Molecular physiology
- Transport proteins
- Plasmodesmata
- Plant Pathogen interactions
- Genome editing
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Synthetic Biology & Biotechnology
Microbiology
Management
Prof. Dr. Julia Frunzke
Research and teaching focus
- Molecular Microbiology
- Bacteriophages: Biology and Applications
- Bacterial Immune Systems
- Gene Regulatory Networks
- Metabolic Engineering
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Cell Biology & Biomedicine
Plant Sciences - Securing food in a changing climate
Synthetic Biology & Biotechnology
Cell and Interaction Biology
Management
Prof. Dr. Guido Grossmann
Research and teaching focus
- Cell polarity
- Intra- and intercellular signal transduction
- Plant-microbe interactions
- Microfluidics
- Advanced light microscopy
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Molecular pathogenicity
Management
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Miriam Kutsch
Research and teaching focus
- Host-Pathogen interactions
- Molecular Infection Biology
- Protein Biochemistry
- bacterial pathogens
- cell-autonomous immunity
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Cell Biology & Biomedicine
Genome Biology & AI in Life Sciences
Synthetic Biology & Biotechnology
Metabolic Physiology
Management
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Lammert
Research and teaching focus
- Animal and Human Physiology
- Drug Development
- Biomedicine
- Cardiovascular Research
- Diabetes Research
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Cell Biology & Biomedicine
Microbial Cell Biology
Management
Prof. Dr. Eva Nowack
Research and teaching focus
- Evolutionary cell biology
- Protists
- Endosymbiosis
- Paulinella chromatophora
- Trypanosomatids
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Cell Biology & Biomedicine
Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene
Management
Prof. Dr. Klaus Pfeffer
Research and teaching focus
- Host-pathogen interactions
- Microbiome
- Model systems for infectious diseases
- Immune defence in infections
- Intracellular pathogens
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Genome Biology & AI in Life Sciences
Plant Sciences - Securing food in a changing climate
Population Genetics
Management
Prof. Dr. Laura Rose
Research and teaching focus
- Population genetics
- Plant-microbe interactions
- Evolutionary genomics
- Host-parasite coevolution
- Plant Ecology
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Cell Biology & Biomedicine
Genome Biology & AI in Life Sciences
Plant Sciences - Securing food in a changing climate
Synthetic Biology & Biotechnology
Center for Advanced Imaging
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
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Cell Biology & Biomedicine
Plant Sciences - Securing food in a changing climate
Synthetic Biology & Biotechnology
Biological Information Processing
Management
Prof. Dr. Oliver H. Weiergräber
Research and teaching focus
- X-ray crystallography
- Structural Biology
- Autophagy and its modulation
- Biocatalysers
- Protein aggregation
Pathogenicity & Interaction Biology
Plant Sciences - Securing food in a changing climate