Projects
(Project-Number and Title / Research Area / Principal Investigator/s)
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P1 Structure and mechanisms of membrane transport proteins
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Electron Microscopy, protein crystallography, biophysics
Prof. Dr. Werner Kühlbrandt, Department of Structural Biology,
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt a.M.
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P2 Cell-free expression of GPCRs: In vitro characterization of the endothelin receptor signal perception and transduction
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Biochemistry, structural biology
Prof. Dr. Volker Dötsch / Dr. Frank Bernhard, Institute of Biophysical
Chemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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P3 Structural genomics on selected families of secondary active transporters
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Biochemistry, X-ray crystallography, membrane protein production
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Michel, Molecular Membrane Biology,
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt a.M
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P4 Dynamic molecular description of transport regulation in BetP
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Structural biology, biophysics, membrane protein biochemistry
Prof. Dr. Christine Ziegler, Department of Structural Biology,
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt a.M. and Institute of Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry, Regensburg University
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P6 Biophysics of light-driven ion and ABC efflux pumps
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Membrane proteins, biophysics, solid-state NMR
Prof. Dr. Clemens Glaubitz, Institute of Biophysical Chemistry,
Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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P7 Dipolar EPR spectroscopy on membrane embedded transport complexes
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Biophysics, EPR spectroscopy
Prof. Dr. Thomas Prisner, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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P9 Function and mechanism of the lysosomal polypeptide transporter ABCB9
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Membrane biochemistry, structural biology, cell biology
PD Dr. Rupert Abele, Institute of Biochemistry,
Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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P10 Light gated ion channels and secondary active transporters:
mechanism and application
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Biophysics, transport mechanism, electrophysiology, spectroscopy
Prof. Dr. Klaus Fendler / Prof. Dr. Ernst Bamberg,
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt a.M.
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P11 Microbial rhodopsins as optogenetic tools to analyze neuronal networks in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
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Molecular/cellular neuroscience, optogentics, neurophysiology
Prof. Dr. Alexander Gottschalk, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences & Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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P12 Photoinitiated functional dynamics of retinal proteins
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Biophysics, physical chemistry, molecular spectroscopy
Prof. Dr. Josef Wachtveitl, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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P13 NMR investigations of retinal binding proteins
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NMR-spectroscopy, structural biology, organic chemistry
Prof. Dr. Harald Schwalbe, Institute of Organic Chemistry &
Chemical Biology, Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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P14 Structure and function of unusual ATP synthases
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Microbiology, biochemistry
Prof. Dr. Volker Müller, Institute of Molecular Biosciences,
Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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P15 Structure and function of bacterial ATP synthases
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Biochemistry, structural biology
Dr. Thomas Meier, Department of Structural Biology,
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt a.M.
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P16 Translocation mechanism and viral inhibition of the MHC I peptide-loading complex
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Membrane biochemistry, membrane biophysics, ABC transporter
Prof. Dr. Robert Tampé, Institute of Biochemistry,
Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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P17 Structure, function and dynamics of the Toc core complex
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Plant cell / membrane protein biology, biochemistry / biophysics
Prof. Dr. Enrico Schleiff, Institute of Molecular Biosciences,
Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
P18 Structure and function of Resistance Nodulation and cell Devision (RND) transporters and RND-type tripartite complexes
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Membrane biochemistry, structural biology, multidrug efflux
Prof. Dr. Klaas Martinus Pos, Institute of Biochemistry,
Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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P19 Structural organization of macromolecular complexes in membranes:
The MHC class I peptide-loading complex
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Computational biology, structural biology
Dr. Lars Schäfer, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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P20 Conformational dynamics and communication of membrane transporters and receptors studied at the single-molecule level in vitro and in vivo
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Membrane biochemistry
Prof. Dr. Mike Heilemann, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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P21 Communication of membrane stress by lipids and proteins
Membrane biochemistry, cell biology
Jun. Prof. Dr. Robert Ernst, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life
Sciences & Institute of Biochemistry,
Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
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