Research groups

Our research focuses on how somatic and stem cells integrate extracellular signals to modulate their fate. The architecture, homeostasis and function ...

We are intrigued by one of the great remaining mysteries in animal evolution: how did our central nervous system (CNS) come into existence? What did i...

Our research focuses on the heterogeneity of stem cell niches. Specifically, we want to understand how differences in muscle stem cells within one tis...

My lab is interested in understanding stem cells, a fascinating type of cell that can self-renew and is responsible to generate once and again the ce...

Using fish as a model system to study the vertebrate circadian clock.

We investigate how plant light perception and signaling is organized in the cell nucleus. Plants create sugars from light energy, therefore, light per...

Radial growth of plant shoots and roots is essential for the formation of wood and of large plant bodies, and thus for the creation of biomass on eart...

The Department of Molecular Biology of Plants investigates the mechanisms of metabolic homeostasis in plants that controls growth in relation to devel...

We reconstruct and study whole-body neural circuits in marine invertebrate larvae to understand the control of movements and the evolution of nervous ...

Evolutionary and biodiversity research in our department is focusing on levels of biological variation varying from molecules to landscapes with a foc...

Current research in my lab is based on an integrated approach of advanced genomic, genetic, molecular, and biochemical methods together with extensiv...

Die Abteilung für Stammzellbiologie befasst sich mit den Mechanismen, die Identität, Zahl und Teilungsaktivität von Pflanzenstammzellen regulieren. W...

How does the genetic information encoded in the DNA reliably lead to a specific organismal shape? The laboratory is interested in understanding morpho...

Accurate chromosome segregation depends upon the precise coordination of mitotic events and on safeguard mechanisms, such as the spindle assembly and ...

Our group is interested in understanding the interplay between a cell's developmental history, function, and its flexibility to change. We are working...

Due to their sessile lifestyle, plants need to efficiently adapt their metabolic and developmental program to changing and often unfavourable environm...

Glycosylation is one of the most abundant and complex protein modifications known. In many biological systems more than half of all proteins are glyco...

Our group works at the interface of data science, machine learning and the life sciences with the aim to develop the computational tools and statistic...

Jochen Wittbrodt is a Principal Investigator in the Excellence Cluster 3D Matter Made to Order and a member of the Graduate School HBIGS. Our work is ...