- Wolfgang Baumeister / Molecular Structural Biology
Cryo-Electron Tomography, Electron Microscopical Structure Research, Protein and Cell Structure, Protein Degradation
- Christian Biertümpfel / Molecular Mechanisms of DNA Repair
Structural Biology, DNA Repair, DNA Replication, DNA Recombination, Protein-DNA-Interactions
- Julia von Blume / Molecular Basis of Protein Trafficking
Membrane Trafficking, Protein Sorting and Secretion, Golgi Apparatus, Ca2+, ADF/cofilin, Hailey Hailey disease
- Elena Conti / Structural Cell Biology
Structural Studies, RNA Transport, RNA Surveillance, RNA Degradation
- Reinhard Fässler / Molecular Medicine
Integrin, Adhesion Signalling, Mouse Genetics
- Friedrich Förster / Modeling of Protein Complexes
Cryoelectron Microscopy, Modeling, Endoplasmatic Reticulum Associated Protein Machinery, Ubiqutin Proteasome Pathway
- Peter Fromherz / Membrane and Neurophysics
Membrane Biophysics, Neurophysics, Neuron-Semiconductor Interfacing, Voltage-Sensitive Dyes
- Günter Gerisch / Cell Dynamics
Phagocytosis, Actin Dynamics, Cell Motility
- Carsten Grashoff / Molecular Mechanotransduction
Cell Biology, Mechanotransduction, Force, Signal Transduction
- Stephan Gruber / Chromosome Organization and Dynamics
Bacterial Chromosome Segregation, Chromosome Condensation, DNA Decatenation, Bacterial Condensin
- Franz-Ulrich Hartl / Cellular Biochemistry
Molecular Chaperones, Protein Folding, Protostasis, Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Manajit Hayer-Hartl / Chaperonin-assisted Protein Folding
Protein Folding and Assembly, Rubisco, GroEL and GroES, Mass Spectrometry
- Tad Holak / NMR Spectroscopy
Anti-cancer drug design, protein-protein interactions, tumor suppressors, structural biology
- Robert Huber / Structure Research
Structural Biology, Methods of Protein Crystallography, Protein Degradation, Medicinal Chemistry
- Stefan Jentsch / Molecular Cell Biology
Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin-Like Proteins, Protein Degradation, DNA Transactions and Chromatin Biology
- Esben Lorentzen / Intraflagellar Transport
Cilia, Intraflagellar Transport, X-ray Crystallography, Protein Complexes
- Friedrich Lottspeich / Protein Analysis
Protein Primary Structure Analysis, Proteomics, Protein Separation
- Matthias Mann / Proteomics and Signal Transduction
Mass Spectrometry, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Cancer
- Luis Moroder / Bioorganic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Immunochemistry of Peptides
- Jürg Müller / Chromatin Biology
Genetics and Biochemistry of Chromatin, Transcription, Histone Modifications, Drosophila Development
- Inaam Nakchbandi / Translational Medicine
Fibronectin, Integrin, Bone, Disease
- Walter Neupert / Structure and Function of Mitochondria
Organelle Biogenesis, Intracellular Protein Transport, Protein Translocases, Evolution of Mitochondria
- Dieter Oesterhelt / Membrane Biochemistry
Halophilic Organisms, Photobiology, Structural Studies, Systems Biology
- Boris Pfander / DNA Replication & Genome Integrity
DNA Replication, Checkpoints, DNA damage, Posttranslational Modifications, Yeast
- Andreas Pichlmair / Innate Immunity
Host-pathogen Interactions, Viruses, Proteomics, Perturbation of Immune Signaling
- Marc Schmidt-Supprian / Molecular Immunology and Signaltransduction
Immunology, Mouse Genetics, Signaltransduction, Immune Diseases
- Frank Schnorrer / Muscle Dynamics
Drosophila Muscle Development, Sarcomere, Cell Migration, Muscle Patterning
- Zuzana Storchova / Maintenance of Genome Stability
Cell Biology, Genome Stability, Chromosome Segregation, Aneuploidy, Polyploidy
- Axel Ullrich / Molecular Biology
Signal Transduction, Cancer Signals, Cancer Therapy Development
- Roland Wedlich-Söldner / Cellular Dynamics and Cell patterning
Live Cell Imaging, Cell Cortex, Actin Dynamics, Cell Polarity
- Thomas Wollert / Molecular Membrane and Organelle Biology
Biochemistry, in vitro Reconstitution, Membrane Remodeling, Organelle shape
- Wolfgang Zachariae / Chromosome Biology
Cell division, Meiosis
External Scientific Members
- Patrick Cramer / Structural Systems Biology
RNA polymerases, gene transcription, genomic regulation, mRNA metabolism, molecular systems biology
- Heinz Jagodzinski
Emeritus Professor for Crystallography and Mineralogy, LMU, Munich, Germany
- James A. Spudich
Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA
- Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker
Secretary General of the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), Strasbourg, France
- Carl R. Woese
Emeritus Professor of Microbiology Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, USA
More information about the structure of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry you can find in the organigram.