Professor Dr. Steffen Backert

Address Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Department Biologie
Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie
Staudtstraße 5
91058 Erlangen

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Patho-adaptive Mutations in Helicobacter pylori (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Signaling cascades of the CagA protein to induce host actin cytoskeletal rearrangements during infection with Helicobacter pylori (Priority Programmes)
  - Functional role of integrin alpha5betha1 and the Helicobacter pylori CagL protein in type IV secretion and signal transduction (Research Grants)
As Project Head
- Completed projects
  - Molecular function and signal transduction of the serine protease HtrA, a novel secreted effector protein of bacterial pathogens (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Manipulation of Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokine Production and Dysregulated Resolution of Inflammation by Helicobacter pylori (Collaborative Research Centres)