Research Groups at the MPI

External Scientific Members | Former Research Groups

Wolfgang Baumeister

Molecular Structural Biology

Cryo-Electron Tomography, Electron Microscopical Structure Research, Protein and Cell Structure, Protein Degradation

Georg Borner

Systems Biology of Membrane Trafficking

Proteomic Microscope, Membrane Trafficking, AP-4 Mediated Protein Transport, Quantitative Mass Spectrometry, Dynamic Organellar Maps

John Briggs

Cell and Virus Structure

Structural Biology, Cryo-Electron Tomography, Viruses, Membrane trafficking

Elena Conti

Structural Cell Biology

Structural Studies, RNA Transport, RNA Surveillance, RNA Degradation

Jürgen Cox

Computational Systems Biochemistry

Systems Biology, Proteomics, Mass Spectrometry, Bioinformatics

Karl Duderstadt

Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Machines

DNA Replication Dynamics, Structural Biology, Single-Molecule Imaging, Biophysics

Reinhard Fässler

Molecular Medicine

Integrin, Adhesion Signalling, Mouse Genetics

Günther Gerisch

Cell Dynamics

Phagocytosis, cytokinesis, cell motility, actin dynamics

Franz-Ulrich Hartl

Cellular Biochemistry

Molecular Chaperones, Protein Folding, Proteostasis, Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Manajit Hayer-Hartl

Chaperonin-assisted Protein Folding

Protein Folding and Assembly, Rubisco, GroEL and GroES, Mass Spectrometry

Amelie Heuer-Jungemann

DNA Hybridnanomaterials

DNA Nanotechnology, DNA-Silica Hybridnanomaterials, Bionanotechnology, Biophysics

Veit Hornung

Molecular Mechanisms of Inflammation

Immunology, Inflammation, Innate Immunity

Robert Huber

Structure Research

Structural Biology, Methods of Protein Crystallography, Protein Degradation, Medicinal Chemistry

Ralf Jungmann

Molecular Imaging and Bionanotechnology

Super-Resolution Microscopy, DNA Nanotechnology, Biophysics, Single-Molecule Studies

Matthias Mann

Proteomics and Signal Transduction

Mass Spectrometry, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Cancer

Felix Meissner

Experimental Systems Immunology

Immunology, Inflammation, Cellular Communication, Proteomics, Systems Biology

Jürg Müller

Chromatin Biology

Genetics and Biochemistry of Chromatin, Transcription, Histone Modifications, Drosophila Development

Peter Murray

Immunoregulation

Immunity, Macrophage: T cell cross-talk, Self-Tolerance, Amino Acid metabolism

Danny Nedialkova

Mechanisms of Protein Biogenesis

Molecular Cell Biology, Protein Biogenesis, Translation regulation, Systems Biology

Boris Pfander

DNA Replication & Genome Integrity

DNA Replication, Checkpoints, DNA damage, Posttranslational Modifications, Yeast

Jürgen Plitzko

CryoEM Technology

Cryo-Electron Tomography, Focused Ion Beam Milling, correlated light microscopy, in situ Structural Biology, visual Proteomics

Brenda Schulman

Molecular Machines and Signaling

Structural Biology, Ubiquitin Proteasome System, Ubiquitin-like Proteins

Petra Schwille

Cellular and Molecular Biophysics

Biophysics, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Single Molecule, Synthetic Biology

Kikuë Tachibana

Totipotency

Mechanistic Cell Biology, Genomics and Biochemistry of Chromatin Reprogramming, Transcription, Mouse Genetics

Wolfgang Zachariae

Chromosome Biology

Cell division, Meiosis

Research Groups at the MPI

Wolfgang Baumeister Molecular Structural Biology

Georg Borner Systems Biology of Membrane Trafficking

John BriggsCell and Virus Structure

Elena Conti Structural Cell Biology

Jürgen Cox Computational Systems Biochemistry

Karl Duderstadt Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Machines

Reinhard Fässler Molecular Medicine

Günther Gerisch Cell Dynamics

Franz-Ulrich Hartl Cellular Biochemistry

Manajit Hayer-Hartl Chaperonin-assisted Protein Folding

Amelie Heuer-JungemannDNA Hybridnanomaterials

Veit Hornung Molecular Mechanisms of Inflammation

Robert Huber Structure Research

Ralf Jungmann Molecular Imaging and Bionanotechnology

Matthias Mann Proteomics and Signal Transduction

Felix Meissner Experimental Systems Immunology

Jürg MüllerChromatin Biology

Peter Murray Immunoregulation

Danny Nedialkova Mechanisms of Protein Biogenesis

Boris Pfander DNA Replication & Genome Integrity

Jürgen Plitzko CryoEM Technology

Brenda Schulman Molecular Machines and Signaling

Petra Schwille Cellular and Molecular Biophysics

Kikuë Tachibana Totipotency

Wolfgang Zachariae Chromosome Biology