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Professors
Prof. Dr. Ivano Amelio
C. Zeiss endowed Professor for Systems Toxicology
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Phone: +49 7531 88-5500Room: M 1004
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Systems Toxikology
- cell stress response
- epigenetic basis of genes vs environment interaction
- omics approaches for systems analysis
- genomic integrity
- mechanisms of carcinogenicity
Tenure-Track-Prof. Dr. Armin Bahl
Tenure Track Professor for Neurobiology and Zoology
Prof. Dr. Lutz Becks
Professor for Aquatic Ecology and Evolution
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Phone: +49 7531 88-2828Room: U 324
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Limnology - Aquatic Ecology and Evolution
- community dynamics
- eco-evolutionary dynamics
- experimental evolution
Prof. Dr. Thomas Brunner
Professor for Biochemical Pharmacology
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Phone: +49 7531 88-5370Room: L 906
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Biochemical Pharmacology
- extra-adrenergic steroid synthesis
- mechanisms of apoptotic cell death
- immune cell activation and immunopathologies
Prof. Dr. Alexander Bürkle
Professor for Molecular Toxicology
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Phone: +49 7531 88-4035Room: ML 725
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Molecular Toxicology
- DNA damage and repair
- poly(ADP-Ribosyl)ation
- biomarkers of aging
Prof. Dr. Iain Couzin
Professor for Biodiversity and Collective Behaviour
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Phone: +49 7531 88-4915Room: Z 818
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Biodiversity and Collective Behavior
- sensory input and behavioral output of individuals in groups
- embedding real organisms into a 3D virtual world
- ontogeny and sensory basis of social behavior
- integrating individual and collective cognition in animal groups
Prof. Dr. Margaret Crofoot
Professor for Organismal Interactions
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Phone: +49 7531 88-5450Room: Z 721
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Ecology of Animal Societies
Prof. Dr. Elke Deuerling
Professor for Molecular Microbiology
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Phone: +49 7531 88-2647Room: ML 727
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Molecular Microbiology
- protein biogenesis and protein folding
- functions and mechanisms of molecular chaperones
- blood-brain barrier
Prof. Dr. Kay Diederichs
Professor for Molecular Bioinformatics
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Phone: +49 7531 88-4049Room: M 600
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Molecular Bioinformatics
- structure solution
- structure analysis
- structure prediction
- X-ray radiation damage
- developement of algorithms in bioinformatics and X-ray crystallography
Prof. Daniel Dietrich Ph.D.
Professor for Ecotoxicology
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Phone: +49 7531 88-3518Room: M 1003
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Ecotoxicology
- toxicological and biochemical mechanisms
- toxicity, carcinogenicity and teratogenicity
- natural toxins (mycotoxins, plant toxins, cyanobacterial toxins, etc.)
- pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Laura Epp
Junior Professor for Environmental Genomics in Aquatic Systems
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Phone: +49 7531 88-3391Room: U 222
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Environmental Genomics in aquatic Systems
- environmental DNA (eDNA)
- ancient DNA (aDNA), in particular from sediments
- paleoenvironmental reconstructions
Tenure-Track-Prof. Dr. Andreas Gruber
Tenure Track Professor for Applied Bioinformatics
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Phone: +49 7531 88-2376Room: P 1214
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Applied Bioinformatics
- gene expression regulation in health and disease (transcription, splicing, 3'-end processing)
- bioinformatics approaches & software tools for high-throughput experiments
- cancer genomics and transcriptomics
- systems immunology
Prof. Dr. Christof Hauck
Professor for Cell Biology
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Phone: +49 7531 88-2773Room: ML 626
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Cell Biology
- cell adhesion molecules
- signal transduction at focal adhesion sites
- cytoskeletal dynamics
- host-pathogen interaction and innate immunity
Prof. Dr. Erika Isono
Professor for Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
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Phone: +49 7531 88-2561Room: M 903
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Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
- plant development and stress responses
- regulation of intracellular membrane trafficking and autophagy by ubiquitin
- molecular mechanisms of vacuole biogenesis
- function of deubiquitylating enzymes-Molecular mechanisms of vacuole biogenesis
Prof. Dr. Mark van Kleunen
Professor for Ecology
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Phone: +49 7531 88-2997Room: M 803
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Ecology
- invasive and rare plants
- global change
- phenotypic plasticity and adaptation
- pollination and reproduction
Prof. Dr. Peter Kroth
Professor for Plant Ecophysiology
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Phone: +49 7531 88-4816Room: M 906
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Plant Ecophysiology
- intracellular protein targeting
- phototrophic biofilms
- physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology of diatoms and algae in general
Prof. Dr. Marcel Leist
Professor for In-vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine
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Phone: +49 7531 88-5037Room: Z 904
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In-vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine
- pluripotent stem cells
- models of neurodegeneration
- glia-neuron interactions
- developmental neurotoxicology
- Doerenkamp-Zbinden chair for alternative methods
Prof. Dr. Elisa May
Professor for Cellular Bioimaging
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Phone: +49 6221 42-2682Website Write an e-mail
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Cellular Bioimaging
- linear and nonlinear confocal microscopy using femtoseconds fibre lasers
- imaging of chromatin dynamics and DNA-repair
- research data management for bioimaging data
Prof. Dr. Olga Mayans Carrillo
Professor for Biophysics and Structural Biology
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Phone: +49-753- 88-2212Room: M 1202
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Biophysics and Structural Biology
- protein crystallography
- protein engineering and re-design
- structure and function of muscle proteins involved in mechanotransduction: filamentous scaffolds, kinases, stress-response factors
Prof. Dr. Thomas Mayer
Professor for Molecular Genetics
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Phone: +49 7531 88-3707Room: ML 627
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Molecular Genetics
- regulation of mitosis and meiosis in higher eukaryotes
- regulation of the cell-cycle by ubiquitin ligases
- function and regulation of motor proteins in the process of chromosome segregation
- chemical genetics approach to study the function of mitotic proteins
Prof. Axel Meyer Ph.D.
Professor for Zoology and Evolutionary Biology
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Phone: +49 7531 88-4163Room: M 806
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Zoology and Evolutionary Biology
- molecular evolution, genomics, genetics of adaptation
- evolution of gene families, Hox genes, speciation
- molecular phylogenetics, molecular ecology
Prof. Dr. Patrick Müller
Professor for Developmental Biology
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Phone: +49 7531 88-5544Room: M 1106
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Systems biology of vertebrate development and disease
- biophysics of signal dispersal
- self-organization and size regulation
- machine learning
- aberrant signaling in disease
Prof. Dr. Frank Peeters
Professor for Environmental Physics
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Phone: +49 7531 88-3459Room: U 216
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Environmental Physics
- physical limnology
- biological-physical interactions in aquatic ecosystems
- ecosystem modelling
Prof. Dr. Martin Scheffner
Professor for Biochemistry
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Phone: +49 7531 88-5150Room: M 703
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Biochemistry
- enzymology and physiology of the ubiquitin-conjugation system
- mechanisms of cellular transformation
- DNA tumor viruses
Prof. Dr. David Schleheck
Professor for Limnic Microbiology
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Phone: +49 7531 88-4247Room: M 905
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Limnic Microbiology
- novel biodegradation pathways for xenobiotic compounds
- bacterial biofilm formation and dispersal processes
- analysis of microbial genomes
Prof. Dr. Dieter Spiteller
Professor for Chemical Ecology
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Phone: +49 (0)7531 883931Room: M 855
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Chemical Ecology
- chemical communication (quorum sensing/quorum quenching)
- induction and regulation of secondary metabolite formation
- interactions between lower and higher organisms
- function of secondary metabolites/antibiotics
- structure elucidation
- biosynthesis, enzymology, molecular biology
Prof. Dr. Florian Stengel
Professor for Cellular Proteostasis and Mass Spectrometry
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Phone: +49-7531-882285Room: ML 519
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Cellular Proteostasis and Mass Spectrometry
- architecture and dynamics of large macromolecular assemblies
- mass spectrometry and structural proteomics
- hybrid methods in structural biology
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Anna Stöckl
Junior Professor for Neurobiology and Behaviour
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Phone: +49 7531 88-5075Room: Z 914
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Neurobiology and Behaviour
- sensory physiology
- neural processing (pattern and motion vision)
- visual ecology of insect pollinators
- movement control
Prof. Dr. Christian Voolstra
Professor for Genetics of Adaptation in Aquatic Systems
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Phone: +49 7531 88-3860Room: M 1035
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Genetics of Adaptation in aquatic Systems
- environmental genomics
- adaptive capabilities and biotic response of organisms to environmental change
- role of microbes in structure, function, and adaptation of coral metaorganisms