print versionFaculty and their research interests
Research: Biophysics (channel forming proteins of bacteria) and environmental engineering (biogas and waste water cleaning).
MoLife Specialization Area: Molecular Biophysics
Research: Investigating the biomedical significance of proteolysis in epithelia like epidermis of the skin, intestinal mucosa, and the thyroid gland. A combination of biochemical, cell and molecular biological methods is used to analyze the importance of cysteine cathepsins for the maintenance of epithelial cells' functions and to visualize protease activities in living cells.
MoLife Specialization Area: Cellular and Molecular Biology
Research: Downstream processing of biotechnological products: The "meta-integration" concept for fast-track product delivery
MoLife Specialization Area: Molecular Biotechnology
Research: Investigating the structure and interaction of single biomolecules by atomic force microscopy and are working on detecting the presence and activity of biomolecules with nanomechanical biosensors. Both approaches aim for a better understanding of biomolecular systems on a fundamental level, for developing new bioanalytical tools, and exploring the application of biomolecules in nanotechnology.
MoLife Specialization Area: Molecular Biophysics
Research: Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. We are working on three main subjects. One subject is the preparation and biochemical and cell-biological testing of new compounds for cancer therapy using boron neutron capture reactions. The other subject is the development of test systems for toxicity of chemicals, in which animal experiments are to be replaced by in vitro techniques
MoLife Specialization Area: t.b.a.
Research: RNA Biochemistry: Catalytic RNA, Hammerhead Ribozymes, RNA-mediated gene regulation and RNA
MoLife Specialization Area: Cellular and Molecular Biology
Research: Signal correlations in biological networks, genome signatures and the analysis of spatiotemporal patterns
MoLife Specialization Area: Computational Biology
Research: Molecular modeling of dynamical effects in transport across membranes (ions and substrates, influx and efflux) and light-harvesting complexes (excitation energy transfer and spectroscopy)
MoLife Specialization Area: Molecular Biophysics
Research: Analytical Chemistry, Supramolecular chemistry, Natural Product Chemistry, Food Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, Nanomolecular Chemistry, Stereochemistry, Mass Spectrometry
MoLife Specialization Area: Cellular & Molecular Biophysics
Research: Investigating the potential health risks of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from mobile phones in rodents (mice, rats, and hamsters) with respect to induction and promotion of cancer, respectively, and the possible influence on learning and memory. The second pillar of research deals with rhythmic expression patterns of genes in the testes of rodents with special emphasis on clock genes. These investigation will clarify the stunningly precise pattern of spermatogenesis, a phenomenon which has not yet been fully understood.
MoLife Specialization Area: Molecular Biophysics
Research: Relationship between DNA topology and linear code, regulation of bacterial gene expression, structural coupling of chromatin architecture and transcription machinery composition, gene communication networks and chromosome morphology, coordination of genetic programs sustaining normal and pathogenic bacterial growth, mechanisms of bacterial resistance.
MoLife Specialization Area: Molecular Genetics
Research: Molecular recognition, biomolecular chemistry, enzyme assays, membrane assays, fluorescent probes, organic synthesis, supramolecular chemistry
MoLife Specialization Area: Molecular Biophysics
Research: Applied Microbiology and Genetics (understanding genetic determinants underlying intra-species diversity of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae with regard to industrially relevant phenotypic traits) and industrial biotechnology (improvement of yeast strains by rational and inverse metabolic engineering for the production of biochemical and biofuels from renewable and waste feedstock)
MoLife Specialization Area: Molecular Biotechnology
Research: Modeling and Simulation of Biomedical Processes, Partial Differential Equations, Multiscale Methods, Image Processing with PDEs
MoLife Specialization Area: Computational Biology
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Research: Study of solvent models for MD simulations, structural & dynamical properties of nanostructured biomaterials, protein & peptide folding and the development of bioinformatics tools for bioengineering
MoLife Specialization Area: Computational Biology
Research: Molecular Immunology (MHC class I antigen presentation), cell biology (specific protein transport between ER and Golgi apparatus), and biotechnology (assay development)
MoLife Specialization Area: Cellular and Molecular Biology
Research: Molecular marine microbiology (diatom-bacteria interactions, bacterial nitrogen fixation in mangroves), molecular plant pathology (exopolysaccharides, virulence, and biofilm formation), prokaryotic cell biology (protein transport across membranes), and molecular biotechnology (algal surface attachment and plant metabolites)
MoLife Specialization Area: Cellular and Molecular Biology / Molecular Genetics
Research: Molecular Microbiology (multidrug efflux in plant pathogenic bacteria; antibiotic transport across the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria) and Biotechnology (Biological control of bacterial blight of soybean by antagonistic bacteria)
MoLife Specialization Area: Biotechnology
Research: Quantitative modelling of intermolecular interactions, Biophysics, Electrophysiology
MoLife Specialization Area: Molecular Biophysics / Molecular Biotechnology
