Universität Potsdam
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
Address
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25
14476 Potsdam
Deutschland
GERiT
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14476 Potsdam
Projects
Priority Programmes
Current projects
A dead end trap? - Functions of bacteriophages bound to outer membrane vesicles in host infection and defence
(Applicants
Barbirz, Stefanie
;
Bröker, Nina
)
It’s sweet to move on – bacteriophage infection and processing of glycan-based biofilms
(Applicant
Barbirz, Stefanie
)
The Lower Havel River and Greater Donaumoos Regions: ‘Failed’ or ‘successful’ reclamation of floodplains and peatlands? – A comparative analysis
(Applicants
Linstädter, Anja
;
Mehler, Natascha
;
Werban, Ulrike
;
Zielhofer, Christoph
)
Completed projects
Adaptation to selfing in the genus Capsella: Inferring the evolutionary history and adaptive value of selfing-syndrome alleles
(Applicant
Lenhard, Michael
)
Alien gene introgression promotes rapid adaptation: an unconscious experiment on Fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina) at the northern edge of its distribution range
(Applicant
Tiedemann, Ph.D., Ralph
)
Developing, calibrating and applying a genomic toolbox for species delimitation in Palearctic and tropical amphibians
(Applicants
Hofreiter, Michael
;
Vences, Miguel
)
FrogCap for the Taxonomic Gap: Harnessing Hybrid Enrichment for Next-Generation Taxonomy
(Applicant
Hofreiter, Michael
)
KCO-Kanäle in Arabidopsis thaliana
(Applicant
Czempinski, Katrin
)
Phylogenomic analyses from archival DNA
(Applicant
Hofreiter, Michael
)
Zeitspezifische Facilitations- und Hemmprozesse bei der Laut/Echo-Analyse durch echoortende Fledermäuse
(Applicant
Vater, Marianne
)
Research Units
Completed projects
Bildung und Stabilität von ß-Faltblättern
(Applicant
Seckler, Robert
)
Faltung und Stabilität der parallelen ß-Helix
(Applicant
Seckler, Robert
)
FOR 475: Formation and Stability of beta-Sheets
(Spokesperson
Seckler, Robert
)
Glykolipoiderkennung durch das humane Parvovirus B19
(Applicant
Seckler, Robert
)
Strukturanalyse neuer Faltblattproteine und faltblatthaltiger Aggregate
(Applicant
Seckler, Robert
)
Strukturelle und kinetische Charakterisierung von Intermediaten der Fehlfaltung von Aggregation von Proteinen
(Applicant
Gast, Klaus
)
The interacting roles of plant pathogens, plant genetic variation, and individual plant fitness for the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship in the Jena experiment
(Applicant
Fischer, Markus
)
Research Grants
Current projects
Animal innovation: from diffusion to fitness consequences
(Applicants
Guenther, Anja
;
Mazza, Ph.D., Valeria
)
Cellular dynamics and regulation of cambium stem cells during secondary growth
(Applicant
Lenhard, Michael
)
Deciphering carbohydrate/starch metabolisms in context of the oil yield in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis, Jacq.).
(Applicant
Fettke, Joerg
)
Detailed analyses of starch granule surface structure alterations
(Applicant
Fettke, Joerg
)
Elucidating the mechanism of unreduced gamete formation in Arabidopsis thaliana
(Applicant
Jiang, Ph.D., Hua
)
Footprints of speciation and hybridization in the genomes of Galápagos iguanas
(Applicants
Hofreiter, Michael
;
Steinfartz, Sebastian
)
Global and Specific Analysis of Histone Turnover Dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana
(Applicant
Bäurle, Isabel
)
Host-pathogen interactions in Hantavirus infections: a focus on cytoskeleton Crosstalk
(Applicants
Chiantia, Salvatore
;
Schwarzer, Roland
)
Identifying the role of H3K9 demethylation in Arabidopsis meiosis
(Applicant
Jiang, Ph.D., Hua
)
Priming the chromatin in response to heat stress in Arabidopsis thaliana – The role of Mediator in transcriptional memory
(Applicant
Bäurle, Isabel
)
Structural and biochemical studies elucidating the biogenesis pathway of 20S proteasomes
(Applicants
Dohmen, Jürgen
;
Wendler, Petra
)
The evolution and phenotypic convergence in Malagasy tenrecs (Afrosoricida, Tenrecidae): a combined molecular and morphological perspective
(Applicants
Arnold, Patrick
;
Hofreiter, Michael
)
Understanding the evolution and function of the heterostyly supergene in Amsinckia (Boraginaceae)
(Applicants
Himmelbach, Axel
;
Lenhard, Michael
)
Completed projects
A High-coverage Ancient Genome for Analyzing Arctic Adaptation Mechanisms – the Steller’s Sea Cow Case
(Applicants
Hofreiter, Michael
;
Schöneberg, Torsten
)
Analysis of conformational changes in model proteins by "excited-strate absorption" (ESA) spectroscopy of bound chromophores
(Applicant
Menzel, Ralf
)
Biological Consequences of Nanoscale Energy Deposition: Focusing on the Role of Low-Energy Electrons
(Applicants
Bier, Frank
;
Sturm, Heinz
)
Der Einfluss visueller und verbaler Lernstile auf das Lernen mit Standbildern oder Animationen in computergestützten Lernumgebungen
(Applicant
Höffler, Tim
)
Developmental Systems Drift and the Evolution of Redundancy in Plants
(Applicant
Lenhard, Michael
)
Die Wirkung computergestützter interaktiver Animationen auf das Verständnis von Konzepten komplexer biologischer Prozesse
(Applicant
Bayrhuber, Horst
)
Elucidating the mechanism of BROAD LEAF1 action in controlling barley leaf growth
(Applicants
Kumlehn, Jochen
;
Lenhard, Michael
;
Stein, Nils
)
Era-Chemistry_Artificial receptors based on surface imprinted electrosynthesized polymer nanostructures for protein sensing
(Applicant
Scheller, Frieder W.
)
Evolutionary analyses of pig paleogenomes to reveal origin and domestication of the pig
(Applicant
Hofreiter, Michael
)
Functional analysis of the starch related glucose 1-phosphate metabolism in higher plants
(Applicant
Fettke, Joerg
)
Genetic and molecular analysis of chromosomal determinants of transposon silencing in euchromatin
(Applicants
Bäurle, Isabel
;
Kappel, Christian
)
Genetic mechanisms of petal size regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
(Applicant
Laux, Thomas
)
Genetische Differenzierung akustisch isolierter Goldammerpopulationen
(Applicant
Wallschläger, Dieter
)
Identifying and exploiting genetic variation controlling seed yield and quality in oilseed crops
(Applicants
Bevan, Michael
;
Lenhard, Michael
;
Lepiniec, Loïc
)
Initiation of starch granules and regulation of the starch granule number per chloroplast in Arabidopsis thaliana
(Applicant
Fettke, Joerg
)
Lichtgesteuerter Elektronentransfer von Redoxproteinen auf Elektroden und seine Nutzung für den Aufbau von Signalketten
(Applicants
Lisdat, Fred
;
Parak, Wolfgang
)
Mechanical tunability of biological materials via protein-metal cross-linking
(Applicant
Harrington, Matthew
)
Molecular basis and ecological genetics of hybrid incompatibilities involving a balanced NPR1 polymorphism in the genus Capsella
(Applicant
Lenhard, Michael
)
Molecular mechanism and adaptive value of leaf shape plasticity in the genus Capsella.
(Applicant
Lenhard, Michael
)
Molekulare Analyse der Eisenassimilation in der einzelligen Grünalge Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
(Applicant
Buckhout, Ph.D., Thomas J.
)
Neuronale Plastizität der Zeitverarbeitung im auditorischen Kortex von jungen Fledermäusen
(Applicant
Kössl, Manfred
)
Protein topology at the Dictyostelium centrosome
(Applicant
Meyer, Irene
)
Quantitative analysis of the molecular interactions driving Influenza A virus assembly in model and cellular membranes
(Applicant
Chiantia, Salvatore
)
Regulation of the Activity and Location of Starch-Related Dikinases
(Applicant
Fettke, Joerg
)
Rekonstruktion der Populationsgeschichte und innerartlichen Divergenzzeiten lebender und ausgestorbener Rüsseltierarten mit Hilfe kompletter mitochondrialer Genome
(Applicants
Hofreiter, Michael
;
Joger, Ulrich
)
Speciation without a good reason: disentangling the radiation of primates living in limestone habitat
(Applicants
Hofreiter, Michael
;
Roos, Christian
)
Structural and functional elucidation of the peroxisomal AAA+ complex
(Applicant
Wendler, Petra
)
Structural thermodynamics of complex carbohydat recognition by proteins
(Applicant
Barbirz, Stefanie
)
The ecophysiological relationship between the behavioural strategies and trophic nature of planktonic flagellates
(Applicant
Clegg, Mark
)
The Effects of Pleistocene Climatic Cycles on African Mammal Evolution: The Case of Hippotragin Antelopes
(Applicants
Bibi, Ph.D., Faysal
;
Hofreiter, Michael
)
The role of physiological variation in delimiting geographical ranges of parapatric cryptic species
(Applicant
Tiedemann, Ph.D., Ralph
)
Understanding the molecular function of individual causal loci at the heterostyly supergene in Primula
(Applicant
Lenhard, Michael
)
Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of Hantavirus assembly
(Applicant
Chiantia, Salvatore
)
Unravelling the molecular basis of functional specialization amongst Arabidopsis thaliana poly(A) polymerase isoforms
(Applicant
Lenhard, Michael
)
Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups
Current projects
UNRAVELING THE PROTEIN MACHINERY CONTROLING CELL WALL PATTERNING IN THE VASCULATURE OF PLANTS
(Applicant
Schneider, Rene
)
Completed projects
Motor mechanism of native ATPase complexes
(Applicant
Wendler, Petra
)
WBP Position
Current projects
Exploiting cryptic genetic variation to identify novel components of the KLUH-dependent growth pathway
(Applicant
Nicolas, Ph.D., Antoine
)
The molecular basis of self-incompatibility and stylar dimorphism in Linum grandiflorum
(Applicant
Levchuk, Ph.D., Hanna
)
Heisenberg Grants
Current projects
Regulation of male germline development in plants
(Applicant
Jiang, Ph.D., Hua
)
Research Fellowships
Completed projects
Engineering of polymerases for the amplification of damaged DNA: applications in paleobiology, archaeology and forensic medicine
(Applicant
Baar, Claudia
)
Evolutiv erzeugte Zinkfinger-Proteine als neue Erkennungselemente für die DNA-Analytik
(Applicant
Warsinke, Axel
)
Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch
Completed projects
Open Access Publishing 2020 / University of Potsdam
(Applicant
Seckler, Robert
)
Major Research Instrumentation
Completed projects
Confocal laser scanning microscope with photon-counting and lifetime measuring capabilities
Kryo-FEG-Transmissionselektronenmikroskop 200kV
MALDI-MSMS
Infrastructure Priority Programmes
Current projects
Sensing Biodiversity Across Scales (SEBAS)
(Applicants
Dubovyk, Olena
;
Linstädter, Anja
)
Completed projects
DNA-Metabarcoding of phyto- and zooplankton in East African lake sediments as proxies for past environmental perturbation
(Applicants
Hofreiter, Michael
;
Tiedemann, Ph.D., Ralph
;
Trauth, Martin
)
Metabarcoding of ancient eukaryotic DNA from Chew Bahir, Ethiopia: Reconstruction of past biodiversity responses to drastic environmental change
(Applicants
Hofreiter, Michael
;
Tiedemann, Ph.D., Ralph
)
Collaborative Research Centres
Current projects
Central Tasks of the Collaborative Research Centre
(Project Head
Lenhard, Michael
)
Genomic and functional underpinning of reaction norms of the leaf-economic spectrum across environmental gradients
(Project Heads
Lenhard, Michael
;
Linstädter, Anja
)
Phenotypic plasticity of cambial secondary growth in Brassicaceae in response to temperature and day length
(Project Heads
Lenhard, Michael
;
Schneider, Rene
;
Shi, Dongbo
)
Phenotypic plasticity of the diurnal pattern of starch metabolism in response to a fluctuating environment in Arabidopsis thaliana
(Project Heads
Fettke, Joerg
;
Töpfer, Nadine
)
Phenotypic plasticity of thermotolerance in close relatives within the genus Capsella
(Project Head
Bäurle, Isabel
)
Plasticity of leaf form and function in response to temperature in Capsella bursa-pastoris
(Project Head
Lenhard, Michael
)
Plasticity of secondary walls to water limitation in the vasculature of Arabidopsis thaliana
(Project Head
Schneider, Rene
)
SFB 1644: Phenotypic plasticity in plants – Mechanisms, constraints and evolution
(Spokesperson
Lenhard, Michael
)
Completed projects
Priming the chromatin in response to heat stress in Arabidopsis thaliana
(Project Head
Bäurle, Isabel
)
Regulation von Stärkesynthese und Stärkeabbau
(Project Heads
Geigenberger, Peter
;
Ritte, Gerhard
)
Structure and function of cytosolic glycans in higher plants
(Project Heads
Fettke, Joerg
;
Steup, Martin
)
CRC/Transregios
Current projects
Ecological diversification in urban habitats: A comparative approach across four ruderal Brassicaceae species
(Project Heads
Linstädter, Anja
;
de Meaux, Juliette
)
Synergies and trade-offs of carbon storage along pathways of land transformation
(Project Heads
Amelung, Wulf
;
Börner, Jan
;
Linstädter, Anja
)
Research Training Groups
Completed projects
GRK 80: Model Studies of Structures, Properties and Recognition of Biologically Relevant Molecules at Atomic Level
(Spokesperson
Höhne, Wolfgang
)
GRK 1305: Signal Systems in Plant Model Organisms
(Spokesperson
Palme, Klaus
)
Clusters of Excellence (ExStra)
Current projects
EXC 2008: UniSysCat
(Spokespersons
Dobbek, Holger
;
Drieß, Matthias
;
Mroginski, Ph.D., Maria Andrea
;
Rappsilber, Juri
;
Thomas, Arne
)
Graduate Schools
Completed projects
GSC 203: Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT)
(Spokesperson
Duda, Georg
)
