Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg
Forschungsgruppe Entwicklungsbiologie

Address Im Neuenheimer Feld 230
69120 Heidelberg
Deutschland

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69120 Heidelberg

Projects

Priority Programmes
- Completed projects
  - Evolution von Augen-spezifizierenden Genen: Die Rolle von Six-, Pax- und Rx-Genen in der Trochophora-Larve des Polychaeten Platynereis dumerillii und in der Vertebraten-Neurula (Oryzias latipes)
    (Applicant Wittbrodt, Joachim )
Research Units
- Current projects
  - FOR 2509: The concert of dolichol-based glycosylation: from molecules to disease models
    (Spokesperson Strahl, Sabine )
  - The role of ER-resident glycosylation in vertebrate neural development
    (Applicants Thumberger, Thomas ; Wittbrodt, Joachim )
Collaborative Research Centres
- Completed projects
  - Central administrative tasks of the Collaborative Research Centre
    (Project Heads Unsicker, Klaus ; Wittbrodt, Joachim )
  - Confocal Live Cell Microscopy
    (Project Heads Holstein, Thomas W. ; Wittbrodt, Joachim )
  - Control of stem cell identity and homeostasis in the ciliary marginal zone of the vertebrate retina
    (Project Head Wittbrodt, Joachim )
  - Identification of cis- regulatory grammar controlling neuronal development in vertebrate
    (Project Head Ettwiller, Laurence )
  - Molekulargenetische Analyse induktiver Prozesse während der Augenentwicklung beim Fisch (Medaka: Oryzias latipes, Zebrabärbling: Danio rerio)
    (Project Head Wittbrodt, Joachim )
  - Retinal growth and regeneration
    (Project Head Wittbrodt, Joachim )
  - SFB 488: Molecular and Cellular Bases of Neural Development
    (Spokespersons Unsicker, Klaus ; Wittbrodt, Joachim )
  - Wnt signaling in fate determination of retinal precursors
    (Project Head Wittbrodt, Joachim )
Research Grants
- Current projects
  - The retinal stem cell niche as integrator of temperature and organ growth: comparing the limits of developmental robustness in zebrafish and medaka.
    (Applicants Dorrity, Michael ; Wittbrodt, Joachim )
- Completed projects
  - Molecular mechanisms regulating optic fissure closure
    (Applicants Krieglstein, Kerstin ; Wittbrodt, Joachim )
Major Research Instrumentation
- Completed projects
Research Training Groups
- Completed projects
  - GRK 484: Signalling Systems and Gene Expression in Developmental Model Systems
    (Spokesperson Pollerberg, Gabriele Elisabeth )
Clusters of Excellence
- Completed projects
  - EXC 81: Cellular Networks: From Analysis of Molecular Mechanisms to a Quantitative Understanding of Complex Functions (CellNetworks)
    (Spokesperson Kräusslich, Hans-Georg )
Graduate Schools
- Completed projects
  - GSC 249: The Hartmut Hoffmann-Berling International Graduate School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
    (Spokesperson Wittbrodt, Joachim )
Clusters of Excellence (ExStra)
- Current projects
  - EXC 2082: 3D Matter Made to Order (3DMM2O)
    (Spokespersons Bunz, Uwe F. H. ; Selhuber-Unkel, Christine ; Wegener, Martin ; Wittbrodt, Joachim )