Professor Dr. Dieter Braun

Address Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Fakultät für Physik
Arbeitsgruppe Systems Biophysics
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München

Projects

As Applicant
- Completed projects
  - Microthermophorese und Konvektion zur Akkumulation, Trennung und Polymerisation von Proteinen und DNA: Physikalische Ansätze zur Biotechnologie und dem Ursprung des Lebens (Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups)
  - Thermophoretic quantification of disease specific biomarkers in complex biological fluids (Research Grants)
  - Chemokine receptor CXCR3: Allosteric binding site mapping by photoaffinity labeling and site-directed mutagenesis (Research Grants)
  - Nonequilibrium replication and selection from reactive nucleotides using hyperexponential RNA polymerization in a thermal trap (Research Grants)
As Leader
- Completed projects
  - Hybrid-Mass-Spectrometer (Major Research Instrumentation)
As Spokesperson
- Current projects
  - TRR 392: Molecular evolution in prebiotic environments (CRC/Transregios)
- Completed projects
  - TRR 235: Emergence of Life: exploring mechanisms with cross-disciplinary experiments (CRC/Transregios)
As Participating Researcher
- Current projects
  - EXC 2094: ORIGINS: From the Origin of the Universe to the First Building Blocks of Life (Clusters of Excellence (ExStra))
- Completed projects
  - GSC 1006: Graduate School of Quantitative Biosciences Munich (QBM) (Graduate Schools)
  - EXC 4: Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) (Clusters of Excellence)
As Project Head
- Current projects
  - Early evolutionary cycles starting from 2’,3’-cyclic ribonucleotides (CRC/Transregios)
  - Integrated Research Training Group (CRC/Transregios)
  - Central Administrative Project (CRC/Transregios)
- Completed projects
  - Mechanical breeding of DNA/RNA sequences (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Integrated Research Training Group (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Self-enhanced microfluidic synthesis and polymerization of RNA and DNA (CRC/Transregios)
  - Constraining geochemical boundary conditions of Hadean hydrothermal systems and the implications for early life (CRC/Transregios)
  - Autonomous genome replication and protein synthesis in a cell-free system under microfluidic accumulation and feeding (CRC/Transregios)
  - Fluid flows and RNA-trapping in 2D and 3D Hadean hydrothermal submarine vent models (CRC/Transregios)
  - The evolutionary origin of the genetic code (CRC/Transregios)
  - Integrated Research Training Group (CRC/Transregios)
  - Central Tasks of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC/Transregios)