Research Groups

Cellular organization & architecture:

• Graumann, Peter (Molecular and cellular biochemistry of microorganisms)
• Mösch, Hans-Ulrich (Fungal dimorphism)
• Murray, Seán (Mechanisms of spatial organisation)
• Randau, Lennart (Prokaryotic small RNA biology)
• Schindler, Daniel (Synthetic genomics and engineering biology MAXGenesys)
• Søgaard-Andersen, Lotte (Bacterial development & differentiation)
• Thanbichler, Martin (Prokaryotic cell biology)
• Waidner, Barbara (Biochemistry and cell biology of microorganisms)
• Yuan, Jing (Small Proteins in bacterial signaling networks)

Physiology & metabolism:

• Bange, Gert (Molecular physiology of microbes)
• Bode, Helge (Natural product function and engineering)
• Erb, Tobias (Understanding and building metabolism)
• Essen, Lars-Oliver (Structural biology of photoreceptors and fungal cell wall proteins)
• Heider, Johann (Microbial metabolism of hydrocarbons)
• Hinrichs, Rebecca (RNases - the decision makers?)
• Hochberg, Georg (Evolutionary biochemistry)
• Höfer, Katharina (Bacterial epitrancriptomics)
• Klatt, Judith (Biogeochemistry)
• Kurth, Julia (Microbial Physiology)
• Paczia, Nicole (Metabolomics and small molecule MS)
• Preiner, Martina (Geochemical protoenzymes)  
• Randau, Lennart (Prokaryotic small RNA biology)
• Rebelein, Johannes (Microbial metalloenzymes)
• Schindler, Daniel (Synthetic genomics and engineering biology MAXGenesys)
• Schuller, Jan Michael (Cryo-EM of molecular machines)
• Shima, Seigo (Microbial protein structure)
• Vázquez, Olalla (Photoreactive probes for chemical biology)
• Willmund, Felix (Molecular plant sciences: protein synthesis and folding in the context of climate change) 

Microbial communities & interactions:

• Azarbad, Hamed  (Stress ecology of the microbiome)
• Becker, Anke (Bacterial regulatory networks)
• Bode, Helge (Natural product function and engineering)
• Brune, Andreas (Insect gut microbiology and symbiosis)
• Erb, Tobias (Understanding and building metabolism)
• Junker, Robert (Evolutionary ecology of plants)
• Opitz, Sven (Symbiotic collectives)
• Schmeck, Bernd (Inflammation of the lung)
• Sourjik, Victor (Microbial networks)

Signal transduction & information processing:

• Bange, Gert (Molecular physiology of microbes)
• Bischofs-Pfeifer, Ilka (Complex adaptive traits)
• Bode, Helge (Natural product function and engineering)
• Colin, Rémy (Biophysics of environment sensing by motile microorganisms)
• Erb, Tobias (Understanding and building metabolism)
• Essen, Lars-Oliver (Structural biology of photoreceptors and fungal cell wall proteins)
• Heider, Johann (Microbial metabolism of hydrocarbons)
• Sourjik, Victor (Microbial networks)
• Søgaard-Andersen, Lotte (Bacterial development & differentiation)
• Thanbichler, Martin (Prokaryotic cell biology)
• Yuan, Jing (Small Proteins in bacterial signaling networks)