Simon Alberti | Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics | -
Genetics and cell biology of S. cerevisiae, Dictyostelium, and cultured mammalian cells -
Fluorescence microscopy and time-lapse imaging -
Biophysical approaches such FRAP and photoconversion to study intracellular dynamics -
Biochemical reconstitution assays and in vitro and in vivo aggregation assays |
Jan Brugués | Biophysics, Cell Biology, Systems Biology, Theoretical Biophysics | -
Fluorescence spinning disk microscopy -
LC-Polscope (quantitative polarization microscopy) -
Femto-second laser ablation -
DIC microscopy -
Xenopus Laevis extract preparation -
Spindle assembly and biochemistry -
Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy -
Single molecule imaging -
Mathematical modeling -
Image processing -
Numerical simulation and analysis |
Suzanne Eaton | Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Biophysics | -
Tissue explant culture and long-term imaging -
Fluorescence spinning disk microscopy -
Femto-second laser ablation -
Physical modeling -
Image processing and analysis -
Drosophila molecular genetics -
Lipid and lipoprotein biochemistry |
Michael Hiller | Bioinformatics, Genomics, Systems Biology | -
Computational biology -
Bioinformatics |
Alf Honigmann | Biophysics, Cell Biology | -
Super-Resolution Microscopy (STED, SMLM) -
Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Single Molecule Tracking -
Membrane labelling (lipids and proteins) in vivo and in vitro -
Micro-Patterning of Surfaces for Control of Cell Attachment, Signaling and Differentiation -
Reconstitution of Membrane Proteins in Model Membranes |
Anthony Hyman | Cell Biology, Genomics, Biophysics | |
Frank Jülicher | Biophysics | -
Theory of active matter -
Hydrodynamics, Continuum theories, discrete models -
Stochastic processes -
Numerical methods, simulation |
Florian Jug | Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology | -
Graphical Models (Bayesian Networks/ Factor Graphs) -
Deep Learning (Classification, Domain Adaptation, etc.) -
Discrete Optimization -
Efficient Algorithms -
Software Design and Development |
Elisabeth Knust | Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics | -
Drosophila genetics -
Immunohistochemistry, laserscanning microscopy, in-vivo imaging of embryos -
Electron microscopy, immuno-electronmicroscopy -
Cell culture -
Molecular biology and biochemistry |
Moritz Kreysing | Biophysics, Cell Biology, Neurobiology | -
Custom tailored light microscopy -
Wave optics and statistical optics -
Laser micro-manipulation -
Thermophoresis and diffusion systems -
Animal and neuronal tissue dissection |
Teymuras Kurzchalia | Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Lipidomics, Biochemistry | -
Isolation and purification of lipids from C. elegans -
Lipid biochemical analysis (TLC, LC/MS, etc.) -
Metabolic radio- and stable isotope labeling C. elegans for lipid/sterol/carbohydrate analysis -
Genetic analysis of the dauer stage in C. elegans -
Induction and analysis of responses to desiccation and hypoxia in C. elegans |
Carl Modes | Biophysics, Systems Biology, Computational Biology | -
Theory of complex networks -
Applied topological and geometric methods -
Theoretical biophysics -
Theory of soft matter -
Numerical methods and simulations |
Gene Myers | Computational Biology, Optical Engineering, Systems Biology, Computer Science | -
NGS sequencing and assembly -
High throughput microscopy -
Image analysis / interpretation of microscope data sets -
Customized control systems for microscopy -
Algorithms and efficient use of computer hardware |
André Nadler | Cell Biology, Biochemistry | |
Caren Norden | Cell Biology, Developmental Biology | -
Imaging (live imaging, SPIM, confocal microscopy, superresolution) -
Quantitative analysis (Fiji, MatLab, R) -
Theoretical approaches -
Molecular biology -
Transcriptomics |
Gaia Pigino | Cell Biology, Biophysics, Computational Biology | -
3D electron microscopy and various techniques for TEM (plastic embedding, high-pressure freezing, freeze substitution, negative staining, ultramicrotomy, etc.), -
cryo-electron microscopy, -
cryo-electron tomography, sub-tomogram averaging, and single particle analysis, -
correlative light- and electron-microscopy, -
Immunolabelling and immunogold labelling, -
TIRF microscopy, -
single molecule tracking, -
cell culture, -
flagella and cilia isolation -
purification of axonemal protein components |
Jochen Rink | Developmental Biology, Cell Biology, Computational Biology | -
Planarian regeneration -
Antibody production and staining of whole mounts and tissue sections. -
Quantitative Western Blotting -
In situ hybridization of whole mounts and tissue sections -
Next generation Sequencing and NGS data analysis |
Steffen Rulands | Biophysics | |
Ivo Sbalzarini | Computational Biology, Computer Science, Systems Biology | -
mesh-free discretization schemes for partial differential equations -
Bayesian bio-image analysis -
parallel high-performance computing -
bio-inspired computation -
image-based modeling and simulation of biological processes in space and time |
Andrej Shevchenko | Proteomics, Lipidomics | -
mass spectrometry -
Shotgun lipidomics -
LC-MS/MS |
Jacqueline Tabler | Developmental Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics | |
Dora Tang | Synthetic Biology, Biophysics, Materials Science | |
Pavel Tomancak | Developmental Biology, Bioinformatics | |
Nadine Vastenhouw | Developmental Biology, Genetics, Systems Biology | -
Molecular biology such as cloning, (q)PCR, ChIP, and Western blotting -
Genomics approaches such as RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and ATAC-Seq -
Zebrafish techniques such as transplantations, injections, in situs, and CRISPR mediated mutagenesis |
Vasily Zaburdaev | Systems Biology, Theoretical Biophysics | -
Biological physics -
Stochastic processes -
Cell motility -
Biofilms -
Random walks |
Christoph Zechner | Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology | -
Stochastic models of molecular networks -
Statistical inference & learning -
Molecular computing & nanotechnology -
Signal processing & adaptive systems |
Marino Zerial | Cell Biology, Computational Biology, Systems Biology | -
Synthetic biology -
High resolution imaging -
siRNA delivery systems for functional genomics -
Image analysis and data extraction -
Mathematical modeling -
Systems biology, physics and theory |