PhD fellows
Name, Affiliation, Email | Research Area & Thesis topic | PhD Lab | Track | |
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Sheu Tijani Abogunloko Vascular Immunology Lab, Dept. of cardiology and angiology I |
Molecular Medicine Fate, function, and therapeutic stabilization of ApoB self-reactive T-helper cells in mouse atherosclerosis. |
Dennis Wolf | SFB1425 |
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Danielle Paige Anthony Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene |
Immunology and Virology Post translational modifications of IL-1β; regulation and roles in IL-1β activation. |
Georg Haecker | EURIdoc |
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Lena Appel Institute of Biology II |
Protein Structure and Function Structure and function of the electron-bifurcating benzoyl-CoA reductase complex from obligate anaerobic bacteria |
Matthias Boll | SFB1381 |
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Mohd Areeb Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Protein Structure and Function Function of ribosome-bound chaperones in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. |
Sabine Rospert | SFB1381 |
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Anna-Sophia Baur Dept. of Internal Medicine I |
Molecular Medicine The role of miR-146a in CAR T cell Therapy. |
Natalie Köhler | CIBSS |
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Mariia Bazarevich Institute of Biology I |
Developmental Biology The context-dependent activity of pioneer factors at the beginning of zygotic development. |
Daria Onichtchouk | CIBSS |
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Bruno Benassini Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center |
Immunology and Virology Dysregulation of B cell function in ANCA associated vasculitis. |
Marta Rizzi | EURIdoc |
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Anuradha Bhattacharya Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Protein Structure and Function - Role of Atg13 in autophagy |
Claudine Kraft | SFB1381 |
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Martin Borgmann Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center |
Molecular Medicine The tumor microenvironment fuels esophageal adenocarcinoma development. |
Michael Quante | Track 2 |
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Simon Brandl Institute of Biology III / Signalhaus Freiburg |
Immunology and Virology Mechanistic insights in the functioning of immune antigen receptors to improve immunotherapies. |
Susana Minguet | CIBSS |
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Tomas Agustin Brennan Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine |
Molecular Medicine Optogenetic control of heterocellular contributions to cardiac excitation and arrhythmogenesis. |
Franziska Schneider-Warme | SFB1425 |
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Eva Brombacher Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics (IMBI) |
Synthetic Biology and Signalling High throughput data analysis and modelling in systems medicine. |
Clemens Kreutz | CIBSS |
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Annabelle Buschky Institute of Biology III / Signalhaus Freiburg |
Immunology and Virology Engineering CAR T cells to overcome limitations in cancer immunotherapy. |
Susana Minguet | Track 1 |
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Caroline Chauvie Institute of Physiology I |
Neurosciences Nicotinic recruitment of genetically-identified layer 1 interneurons in circuit function and memory. |
Johannes Letzkus | Track 2 |
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Diana Chiang Jurado Dept. of Cardiology and Angiology, University Medical Center |
Molecular Medicine Studying functional changes of monocytes by scRNA seq in cardiology patients. |
Timo Heidt | SFB1425 |
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Victoria Cousin Dept. of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center |
Immunology and Virology tba |
Klaus Warnatz | EURIdoc |
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Kevin Daniel Institute of Biology III / Hilde Mangold Haus |
Molecular Plant Sciences Elucidating adaptive responses of plant roots exposed to flooding. |
Sjon Hartman | CIBSS |
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Trinh Dao Dept. of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology |
Synthetic Biology and Signalling Modulation and integration of host cell signalling pathways via mycobacterial substrate-binding lipoproteins. |
Claudia Jessen-Trefzer | CIBSS |
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Haneen Daralnakhla Institute of Virology |
Immunology and Virology Structural and functional characterization of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) glycoproteins and their interaction with B cells. |
Hartmut Hengel | EURIdoc |
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Dorothee Derwort Institute of Biology II |
Molecular Plant Sciences Function of ERF transcription factors in phytochrome signalling. |
Andreas Hiltbrunner | CIBSS |
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Agnibesh Dey Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, University Medical Center |
Immunology and Virology Investigating macrophages regarding Cytomegalovirus infection. |
Philipp Henneke | EURIdoc |
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Maria Agostina Di Renzo Institute of Biochemistry |
Protein Structure and Function Physiological aspects of ammonium transporters sensing in anammox bacteria |
Susana Andrade | Track 1 |
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Clara Dufossez Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center |
Immunology and Virology Impact of macrophages signaling and metabolism on NLRP3 inflammasome activity. |
Olaf Groß | EURIdoc |
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Anna Ehret Signalhaus Freiburg |
Immunology and Virology The effect of oscillatory optogenetic ligand binding on signalling in T Cells. |
Wolfgang Schamel | Track 2 |
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Christopher Eickhorst Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Protein Structure and Function ULK1 complex composition and regulation in selective autophagy |
Claudine Kraft | SFB1381 |
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Clara-Maria Ell Institute of Biology I, Hilde Mangold Haus |
Developmental Biology TGFβ/BMP signalling in space, time and function. |
Georgios Pyrowolakis | CIBSS |
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Magdalena Engelhardt Dept. of Internal Medicine IV, University Medical Center |
Developmental Biology Regulation of mucociliary cell fates through Notch signaling in the model Xenopus laevis. |
Peter Walentek | CIBSS |
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Tobias Feilen Institute of Surgical Pathology |
Molecular Medicine Matrisome composition and processing in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. |
Oliver Schilling | SFB1453 |
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Arash Felekary Department of Microsystems Engineering - IMTEK |
Molecular Medicine Investigating cardio-myocyte scar formation on a single cell level using ROCS microscopy and Photonic Force Microscopy. |
Alexander Rohrbach | SFB1425 |
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Alexandra Fischer Institute of Biology II / Signalhaus Freiburg |
Synthetic Biology and Signalling Control of signalling pathways using optogenetically induced biomolecular condensates. |
Wilfried Weber | CIBSS |
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Giada Forlani Institute of Biology II |
Synthetic Biology and Signalling I aim to establish optogenetic control on NF-kB to study its dynamics. |
Barbara Di Ventura | CIBSS |
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Anna Frey Institute of Biology II / Hilde Mangold Haus |
Developmental Biology The role of Toll-like receptors in tissue-intrinsic defense mechanisms. |
Anne-Kathrin Classen | Track 2 |
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Carolin Gerke Institute of Virology |
Immunology and Virology Defining molecular mechanisms of the HCMV encoded MHC class I inhibitor US10. |
Hartmut Hengel | Track 2 |
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Maria Gómez-Fabra Gala Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH) |
Protein Structure and Function Cellular response to mitochondrial stress. |
Nora Vögtle | SFB1381 |
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Nikolas Moritz Groß Institute of Biochemisty and Molecular Biology |
Protein Structure and Function Structural and functional characterization of sodium/proton antiporters. |
Carola Hunte | CIBSS |
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Maximilian Haas Dept. of Internal Medicine IV, University Medical Center |
Developmental Biology Signaling in mucociliary epithelia. |
Peter Walentek | Track 2 |
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Wasihun Hailemichael Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center |
Immunology and Virology Heterogeneity of CD8+ T cell exhaustion in chronic viral infection. |
Robert Thimme | EURIdoc |
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Muataz Ali Hamad Department of Cardiology and Angiology I |
Molecular Medicine The role of reticulated platelets in myocardial scarring after ischemia/reperfusion injury. |
Daniel Duerschmied | SFB1425 |
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Jonas Hammerl Institute of Biology III - Molecular Genetics |
Molecular Plant Sciences Subcellular spatio-temporal regulation of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 type IV pilus assembly. |
Annegret Wilde | Track 1 |
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Bo Han Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine |
Molecular Medicine Sustainability of cardiac pacing by mechanical stimulation in the langendorff-perfused rabbit heart. |
Peter Kohl | SFB1425 |
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Verena Holzmüller Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center |
Immunology and Virology Impact of EPICC peptide mediated inhibition of complement cascade and neutrophil activation in intestinal GVHD and cytokine release syndrome. |
Robert Zeiser | Track 1 |
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Neda Hosseini Institute of Virology |
Immunology and Virology Antiviral mechanisms of MxA. |
Martin Schwemmle | Track 1 |
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Vincent Idstein Institute of Biology III |
Immunology and Virology Biogenesis and dynamic regulation of TCR assemblies. |
Wolfgang Schamel | SFB1381 |
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Irma Jayawardana Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department I |
Synthetic Biology and Signalling Characterization of DAAM2-regulated nuclear actin dynamics in prostate cancer cells. |
Robert Grosse | Track 2 |
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Carolina Jerez Longres Institute of Biology II / Signalhaus Freiburg |
Synthetic Biology and Signalling Synthetic biological approaches to study the role of phase separation in cellular processes. |
Wilfried Weber | CIBSS |
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Hong Jiang Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Protein Structure and Function Control of the bacterial stress response by small signalling molecules. |
Hans-Georg Koch | SFB1381 |
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Jorge Jimenez Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Protein Structure and Function Structural and functional characterization of assembly and biogenesis of respiratory complexes. |
Carola Hunte | SFB1381 |
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Venkata Aaditya Jonnalagadda Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Protein Structure and Function Regulatory mechanisms at the human mitochondrial import machinery. |
Chris Meisinger | SFB1381 |
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Nikolaus Jork Institute of Organic Chemistry |
Synthetic Biology and Signalling Synthesis of inositol pyrophosphate prometabolites for photochemical release in different cell models. |
Henning Jessen | CIBSS |
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Claudia Juraske Institute of Biology III / Signalhaus Freiburg |
Immunology and Virology Biogenesis and dynamic regulation of TCR assemblies. |
Wolfgang Schamel | SFB1381 |
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Constanze Kainz Center for Translational Cell Research, Clinic of Internal Medicine I |
Molecular Medicine Contribution of obesity to the initiation and promotion of clear cell renal carcinoma. |
Ian Frew | SFB1453 |
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Masako Monika Kaufmann Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy |
Molecular Medicine Off-target effects of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing |
Toni Cathomen | Track 2 |
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Anna Klawonn Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Center |
Molecular Medicine Role of ciliary intraflagellar transport mediated signaling for vertebrate development. |
Miriam Schmidts | CIBSS |
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Pascal Kleindienst Dept. of Internal Medicine IV, University Medical Center |
Molecular Medicine Role of proteins localized to the ciliary transition zone in polycystic kidney disease and ciliopathies. |
Elisabeth Ott | SFB1453 |
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Alexander Kuznetsov Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center |
Molecular Medicine Interaction of bile acid receptor and inflammasome activation in the development of Barrett‘s esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma. |
Michael Quante | Track 2 |
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Andries Napo Leemisa Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine |
Molecular Medicine Implementation of light-gated potassium channels in cardiac myocytes and non-myocytes for optical modulation of tissue excitability and conduction. |
Franziska Schneider-Warme | SFB1425 |
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Klara Leonore Lesch Institute of Biology II |
Molecular Plant Sciences Downstream signaling of phytochrome dimers. |
Andreas Hiltbrunner | Track 2 |
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Tiago Martins Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Center of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine |
Immunology and Virology tba |
Philipp Henneke | Track 1 |
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David Meral Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology - Department II |
Molecular Medicine The mineralocorticoid receptor as key epigenetic regulator of adverse cardiac remodelling. |
Achim Lother | SFB1425 |
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Annika Merz Institute for Surgical Pathology, University Medical Center |
Molecular Medicine Cell-ECM interactions in renal tubular epithelial cells in the context of progressive CKD. |
Christoph Schell | Track 2 |
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Julian Meß Max Planck Institute for Immunology and Epigenetics |
Synthetic Biology and Signalling Regulation of hematopoietic stem cell dormancy. |
Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid | CIBSS |
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Andreea Mesesan Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene |
Immunology and Virology Characterizing the role of exhausted T cells in hepatocellular carcinoma. |
Georg Haecker | Track 2 |
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Martin Milanov Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Protein Structure and Function The role of the ribosome-associated ATPase YchF in regulating translation in response to metabolic changes and cellular stress. |
Hans-Georg Koch | SFB1381 |
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Lucia Sol Mitre Vascular Immunology Lab, Dept. of cardiology and angiology I |
Molecular Medicine Phenotypes, interactions, and functions of cells of the adaptive immune system in the murine heart after myocardial infarction. |
Dennis Wolf | SFB1425 |
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Vasileios Morfos Institute of Biology III – Molecular Immunology |
Immunology and Virology Modulating T cell signaling for improved anti-tumor responses. |
Björn Lillemeier | EURIdoc |
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Jennifer Müller Institute of Physiology I |
Neurosciences Control of long-range afferents by presynaptic GABAB receptor-mediated inhibition in neocortex |
Johannes Letzkus | Track 2 |
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Arpita Nandy Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH) |
Protein Structure and Function Role of the presequence protease, Oct1 in mitochondrial proteostasis. |
Nora Vögtle | SFB1381 |
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Eva Neugebauer Institute of Virology |
Immunology and Virology The effect of DUX4 induction upon herpesviral infection. |
Florian Full | Track 2 |
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Trang Nguyen Institute of Biology III / Signalhaus Freiburg |
Immunology and Virology Modified TCRs on human T cells targeting tumor cell. |
Wolfgang Schamel | EURIdoc |
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Sophia Ohnemus Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine |
Molecular Medicine Theoretical assessment of channelrhodopsins for cardiac arrhythmia termination. |
Peter Kohl | SFB1425 |
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Sofia Oros Rodrigo Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine |
Molecular Medicine T-tubule calcium homeostasis in cardiomyocytes. |
Eva Rog-Zielinska | SFB1425 |
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Maria Kaukab Osman Institute of Virology |
Immunology and Virology Investigation of the dynamics of Bat influenza viruses with their receptor MHCII. |
Martin Schwemmle | Track 2 |
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Katharina Ostmann Institute of Biology II / Signalhaus Freiburg |
Synthetic Biology and Signalling Synthetic biological approaches towards smart biomaterials and cell signaling systems. |
Wilfried Weber | CIBSS |
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Anwit Pandit MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge (UK) |
Synthetic Biology and Signalling The role of nuclear chaperons in stress signalling. |
Ritwick Sawarkar | CIBSS |
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Suraj Patil Institute for Disease Modelling and Targeted Medicine (IMITATE) |
Molecular Medicine The de-orphanisation of metabolite transporter proteins in the kidney. |
Anna Köttgen | Track 2 |
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Megha Patro Institute of Biology II - Microbiology Molecular Biology of Archaea |
Protein Structure and Function Localization and Characterization of protein complexes in Haloferax Volcanii |
Sonja Albers | Track 2 |
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Andrea Proaño Vasco Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center |
Molecular Medicine Effect of the local and distal microbiota on the development of Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma. |
Michael Quante | Track 2 |
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Jovana Rajak Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Center |
Molecular Medicine Identification of novel therapeutic approaches in xenograft model of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) / Understanding the crosstalk between JMML and immune cells |
Miriam Erlacher | Track 2 |
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Christine Rempfer Institute of Biology II - Plant Biotechnology |
Molecular Plant Sciences Investigation of plant specific prolyl-hydroxylation and O glycosylation in Physcomitrella patens. |
Ralf Reski | Track 2 |
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Jasmin Rettkowski Max Planck Institute for Immunology and Epigenetics |
Synthetic Biology and Signalling Regulation of hematopoietic stem cell dormancy. |
Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid | CIBSS |
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Jonathan Robert Institute of Virology |
Immunology and Virology Molecular characterization of the interaction between bat Influenza virus and their receptor MHC-II. |
Martin Schwemmle | Track 2 |
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Paola Fernanda Ruiz Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center |
Immunology and Virology Stroma – plasma cell interaction as driver of antibody-mediated autoimmune disease. |
Reinhard Voll | EURIdoc |
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Aishwarya Saxena Center of Chronic Immunodeficiency, University Medical Center |
Immunology and Virology Functional analysis of genetic variants in patients with inborn errors in T cells or B cells. |
Bodo Grimbacher | EURIdoc |
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Alessia Scerna Institute of Biology II, Dept. of Molecular Plant Physiology |
Molecular Plant Sciences Auxin and its feedback signaling on PILS turnover. |
Jürgen Kleine-Vehn | CIBSS |
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Franziska Schedel Institute of Biology III |
Protein Structure and Function Synthesis of Phosphatase-targeting chimeras (PhosTACs) and studies on the recruitment of SHP2 using PhosTACs. |
Maja Köhn | CIBSS |
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Laura Scheinost Institute of Biology III |
Protein Structure and Function Identification and targeting of phosphatases involved in mitochondrial protein import. |
Maja Köhn | SFB1381 |
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Nora Isabella Scherer Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center |
Molecular Medicine Approaches to investigate the genetic impact on metabolite levels in urine and plasma. |
Anna Köttgen | SFB1453 |
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Julia Schimpf Institute of Physical Chemistry |
Protein Structure and Function Dynamics of Hsp90:Cdc37:client interactions by multi-color single molecule FRET. |
Thorsten Hugel | SFB1381 |
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Stephanie Schmid Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine |
Molecular Medicine Nano-structural basis for mechanical fibroblast-cardiomyocyte cross-talk. |
Eva Rog-Zielinska | SFB1425 |
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Linus Schömig Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center |
Molecular Medicine The role of Notch signaling in Barrett's esophagus and gastro-esophageal cancer |
Michael Quante | Track 2 |
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Chiara Schroeder Institute for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology |
Developmental Biology Molecular functions of early T-box transcription factors (Eomes and Brachyury) during mammalian gastrulation. |
Sebastian Arnold | CIBSS |
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Lea Seidel Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center |
Immunology and Virology TCR and co-regulatory signaling in exhausted CD8+ T cells. |
Bertram Bengsch | CIBSS |
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Carmen Senin Institute of Biology II / Signalhaus Freiburg |
Synthetic Biology and Signalling The Ephrin receptor as crucial signal transmitter during host cell infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. |
Winfried Römer | Track 2 |
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Shanli Seyed Tarrah Department of Medicine, Experimental Nephrology |
Molecular Medicine Analysis of the molecular pathomechanisms of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. |
Michael Köttgen | CIBSS |
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Mengjin Shi Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics Freiburg |
Developmental Biology Regulation and dynamics of neuronal RNAs in synaptic signaling. |
Valérie Hilgers | Track 2 |
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Elena Sindram Center of Chronic Immunodeficiency, University Medical Center |
Immunology and Virology Characterization of cytoskeleton and vesicle trafficking abnormalities in inborn errors of immunity. |
Bodo Grimbacher | Track 2 |
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Shamphavi Sivabalasarma Institute of Biology II - Microbiology Molecular Biology of Archaea |
Protein Structure and Function Deciphering the rotative mechanism of the archaellum, the motility machinery in archaea. |
Sonja Albers | SFB1381 |
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Spyridon Thivaios Institute of Physiology II |
Neurosciences Identification of Neurexin-mediated trans-synaptic networks using proteomic and biochemical approaches. |
Bernd Fakler | SFB1381 |
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Terrence Tigney Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department II |
Molecular Medicine Deciphering cell-type-specific transcriptomic changes in atrial fibrillation using single-nucleus RNA-seq. |
Lutz Hein | Track 2 |
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Annika Topitsch Institute for Surgical Pathology |
Molecular Medicine Mass spectrometry-based proteomics for research in oral medicine. |
Oliver Schilling | Track 2 |
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Leonie Vollmar Institute of Physical Chemistry |
Protein Structure and Function tba |
Thorsten Hugel | SFB1381 |
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Xipeng Wang Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center |
Immunology and Virology NLRP proteins in health and disease. |
Olaf Groß | EURIdoc |
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Walja Wanney Institute of Biology II - Plant Biotechnology |
Molecular Plant Sciences Machine learning-based analysis of moss development and differentiation. |
Ralf Reski | Track 2 |
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Tilman Werner Institute for Surgical Pathology, University Medical Center |
Molecular Medicine Liquid Biopsy Proteome Profiling. |
Oliver Schilling | Track 2 |
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Maximilian Wess Institute for Surgical Pathology, University Medical Center |
Molecular Medicine Matrisome composition and processing in renal tumors of VHL disease |
Christoph Schell | SFB1453 |
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Sophie Weyrauch Institute of Physical Chemistry |
Protein Structure and Function tba |
Thorsten Hugel | CIBSS |
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Nadine Wössner Institute of Biology III / Signalhaus Freiburg |
Immunology and Virology Aligning dynamic TCR assembly with optimal anti-tumour responses. |
Susana Minguet | CIBSS |
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Fan Xu Institute of Biology III |
Molecular Medicine Reprogramming of transcriptome after hormetic heat stress by the endoribonuclease ENDU-2 improves lifespan and stress resistance in C. elegans. |
Ralf Baumeister | SFB1381 |
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Salih Yanik Dept. of Internal Medicine IV, University Medical Center |
Molecular Medicine The role of CMTM4 and CMTM6 in intracellular vesicle trafficking. |
Gerd Walz | Track 2 |
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Yatish Yatish Department of Microsystems Engineering - IMTEK |
Molecular Medicine Correlating fluorescence and scattered excitation light in Bessel beam light-sheet microscopy. |
Alexander Rohrbach | CIBSS |