Professor Dr. Gerhard Thiel

Address Technische Universität Darmstadt
Fachbereich Biologie
Arbeitsgruppe Plant Membrane Biophysics
Schnittspahnstraße 3
64287 Darmstadt

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Learning by building: constructing voltage gated ion channels from individual modular components (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Ca2+-Ausschüttung aus internen Speichern als Schlüsselfunktion elektrischer Erregung in Chara (Research Grants)
  - Structure and function of Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus-1 encoded K+ channel Kcv (Research Grants)
  - Physiologische und molekulare Charakterisierung eines einwärtsgleichrichtenden Malat-Kanals aus dem Tonoplasten von Kalanchoe daigremontiana (Research Grants)
  - Lipid bilayer properties and K+ channel function (Research Grants)
  - Comparative analysis of K+-channels from two Chlorella species: information on their role in endosymbiosis and on the origin of viral K+-channels (Research Grants)
  - Small viral channels as tools to understand sorting of membrane proteins (Research Grants)
  - DNA-storing and ejection from Chlorella viruses (Research Grants)
  - Unbiased search for structure/function correlates in K+ channels - Exploiting viral molecular evolution to study ion channel functionality (Research Grants)
  - Molecular mechanisms of endo- and exocytosis in the baker's yeast (Research Grants)
  - Small K+ channels are model proteins for detecting basic interactions between membrane proteins and their surrounding bilayer with relevance for structure and function (Research Grants)
  - Constructing of genetically encoded light-activated K+-channels with fast gating and distinct trafficking properties (Priority Programmes)
As Participating Researcher
- Completed projects
  - GRK 340: Communication in Biological Systems: From the Molecule to the Organism in the Environment (Research Training Groups)
  - GRK 1114: Optical Techniques for Measurement of Interfacial Transport Phenomena (Research Training Groups)
  - GRK 1657: Molecular and Cellular Responses to Ionising Radiation (Research Training Groups)
As Project Head
- Completed projects
  - Charakterisierung elementarer Prozesse bei Exo- und Endoctose in Pflanzen (Collaborative Research Centres)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Einbau von K+-Kanälen in die Plasmamembran über den sekretorischen Weg (Priority Programmes)
As Co-Investigator
- Completed projects
  - Functional impact of transmembrane domain and turret on potassium channel gating (Research Grants)