Research groups

The Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg provides a vibrant research environment for more than 250 scientists organized in 25 departments and research groups. Our work centers around organismal biology and spans all biological kingdoms, imploying a rich spectrum of methods and approaches from all life science disciplines.

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Cell signalling

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

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Animal evolution

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...

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Stem Cell Niche Heterogeneity

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

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Clonal Analysis of post-embryonic Stem Cells

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...

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Circadian Clock Biology

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

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Light Signaling and Cell Biology

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

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Developmental Physiology

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...

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Plant Molecular Biology

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

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Evolutionary Neurobiology

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

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Biodiversity and Plant Systematics

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

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Developmental Biology

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

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Stem Cell Biology

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

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Cell and Developmental biology

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

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Cytoskeleton, Cell Division and Signalling

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

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Developmental Genomics

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

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Cell Biology

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

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Glycobiology

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

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Biological Data Science

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...

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Developmental Biology/Physiology

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 ...