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
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Hannes M. Beyer
 

Research and teaching focus

• Cell- and Molecular Biology
• Synthetic Biology and Optogenetics
• Cell- and Tissue Engineering
• Biomedical in vitro tissue models
• Protein Engineering and molecular switches

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Management
apl. Prof. Dr. Thomas Drepper

Research and teaching focus

• New (phototrophic) microbial cell factories
• Production of enzymes & natural compounds in bacteria
• Synthetic biology & Optogenetics
• Microbial interactions
• Synthetic microbial consortia

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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. Michael Feldbrügge

Research and teaching focus

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

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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
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. 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. Markus Pauly

Research and teaching focus

• Plant cell wall polymers
• Synthetic biology of biocomposites
• Glycobiotechnology
• Cell- and molecular biology
• Plant Physiology

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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. 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. 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. Nick Wierckx

Research and teaching focus

• Microbial Biotechnology
• Metabolic Engineering
• Synthetic Biology
• Plastics Bio-upcycling
• Fermentation technology
   

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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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