Professor Dr. Karl Forchhammer

Address Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Interfakultäres Institut für Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin
Lehrstuhl für Organismische Interaktionen
Auf der Morgenstelle 28
72076 Tübingen

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Regulation of glycogen metabolism in response to the autotrophy-heterotrophy switch in Cyanobacteria (Research Units)
  - Conversion of CO2 into valuable products: Regulatory engineering of cyanobacteria to direct carbon flux into desired reactions (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Nitrogene regulation in bacteria: PII-homologus proteins function as central signal integrators and versatile signal transductors (Research Grants)
  - Nitrogen-starvation induced chlorosis in cyanobacteria: A proteolytic program for maintenance of viability (Priority Programmes)
  - Acclimation of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 to metabolic stresses: A moecular biology system-wide analysis of an obligate oxygenic photoautotrophic prokaryote (Research Grants)
  - From Cyanobacteria to Archaeplastida: Unveiling the functional diversity of PII signal transducers (Research Grants)
  - Metabolite sensing signal processors in eukaryotic photosynthetic microorganisms: from molecular mechanisms to cellular functions (Research Grants)
  - Linking second messenger nucleotide signalling with CO2 homeostasis in cyanobacteria: unravelling the SbtB-based network (Priority Programmes)
  - Linking PII regulation with central carbon control in Synechocystis PCC 6803 (Research Grants)
  - Coordination Funds (Research Units)
As Spokesperson
- Current projects
  - FOR 2816: The Autotrophy-Heterotrophy Switch in Cyanobacteria: Coherent Decision-Making at Multiple Regulatory Layers (Research Units)
- Completed projects
  - GRK 1708: Molecular Principles of Bacterial Survival Strategies (Research Training Groups)
As Participating Researcher
- Current projects
  - EXC 2124: Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections (CMFI) (Clusters of Excellence (ExStra))
- Completed projects
  - GRK 370: Biochemistry of Nucloeprotein Complexes (Research Training Groups)
As Project Head
- Completed projects
  - Structure and biogenesis of cell-cell junctions in multicellular cyanobacteria (Collaborative Research Centres)