Research groups
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Biostatistics
Prof Dr Frank Klawonn -
Cell Biology
Prof Dr Theresia Stradal -
Computational Biology for Infection Research
Prof Dr Alice McHardy -
Ecology and Emergence of Zoonoses
Prof Dr Fabian Leendertz -
Epidemiology
Dr Berit Lange -
Epidemiology and ecology of antimicrobial resistance
Prof Dr Katharina Schaufler, PhD -
Evolutionary Community Ecology
Dr Jan Frederik Gogarten -
Experimental Virology
Prof Dr Thomas Pietschmann -
Genome Architecture and Evolution of RNA Viruses
Dr Redmond Smyth -
Host-Pathogen-Microbiota Interactions
Prof Dr Alexander Westermann -
Integrative Informatics for Infection Biology
Dr Lars Barquist -
Microbial Interactions and Processes
Prof Dr Dietmar Pieper -
Microbial Proteomics
Prof Dr Susanne Engelmann -
Molecular Bacteriology
Prof Dr Susanne Häußler -
Molecular Cell Biology
Prof Dr Klemens Rottner -
Molecular Principles of RNA Phages
Jun Prof Dr Jens Hör -
Molecular Structural Biology
Prof Dr Dr h.c. Dirk Heinz -
Nano Infection Biology
Prof Dr Christian Sieben -
One Health Surveillance
Dr Fee Zimmermann -
Pathogen Evolution
Prof Dr Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer -
RNA Biology of bacterial infections
Prof Dr Jörg Vogel -
RNA Synthetic Biology
Prof Dr Chase Beisel -
Structural Infection Biology
Prof Dr Michael Kolbe -
Structure and Function of Proteins
Prof Dr Wulf Blankenfeldt
Immune Response and Interventions
The focus of Topic "Immune Response and Interventions" is the response of the immune system to infections. Scientists in this Topic study the recognition of bacteria and viruses by the immune system, the reasons for individual susceptibility towards infections and the mechanisms pathogens use to circumvent the host’s immune system. They explore the immune system’s ageing, the influence of microbial communities in the body on the course of infections and the impact of infections on neurodegenerative diseases.
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Antiviral Antibody-Omics
Dr rer nat Yannic Bartsch -
Biomarkers of Infectious Diseases
PD Dr Frank Pessler -
Cellular Proteome Research
Prof Dr Lothar Jänsch -
Computational Biology for Individualised Medicine
Prof Dr Yang Li -
Dynamics of Respiratory Infections
Prof Dr med. Hortense Slevogt -
Experimental Immunology
Prof Dr Jochen Hühn -
Experimental Infection Research
Prof Dr Ulrich Kalinke -
Immune Regulation
Prof Dr Dunja Bruder -
Infection Immunology
Prof Dr Eva Medina -
Innate Immunity and Infection
Prof Dr Andrea Kröger -
Innovative Organoid Research
Prof Dr Josef Penninger -
Laboratory of Transmission Immunology
Dr Julia Port -
LncRNA and Infection Biology
Prof Dr Mathias Munschauer -
Microbial Immune Regulation
Prof Dr Till Strowig -
Model Systems for Infection and Immunity
Prof Dr Dagmar Wirth -
Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration
Prof Dr Martin Korte -
Recoding Mechanisms in Infections
Jun Prof Dr Neva Caliskan -
Single-cell Analysis
Prof Dr Antoine-Emmanuel Saliba -
Systems Immunology
Prof Dr Michael Meyer-Hermann -
Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology
Prof Dr Carlos A. Guzmán -
Viral Immunology
Prof Dr Dr Luka Cicin-Sain -
Virology and Innate Immunity
Prof Dr Melanie Brinkmann
Anti-Infectives
In the Topic "Anti-Infectives" (Topic 3), researchers are discovering and developing new anti-infectives. Drug research at HZI is concentrating in particular on natural products – substances that are produced by organisms like bacteria and fungi in great variety. Some of these compounds have medical effects. At HZI, interdisciplinary teams of leading experts with both academic and industry backgrounds develop innovative methods to identify, characterize and improve natural products which could be used against bacteria and viruses.
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Actinobacteria Metabolic Engineering
Dr Andriy Luzhetskyy -
Anti-infectives from Microbiota
Prof Dr Christine Beemelmanns -
Antiviral and Antivirulence Drugs
Prof Dr Martin Empting -
Biological Barriers and Drug Delivery
Prof Dr Claus-Michael Lehr -
Cellular Metabolism in Infection
Prof Dr Thekla Cordes -
Chemical Biology
Prof Dr Mark Brönstrup -
Chemical Biology of Carbohydrates
Prof Dr Alexander Titz -
Clinical Bioinformatics
Prof Dr Andreas Keller -
Compound Profiling and Screening
Prof Dr Ursula Bilitewski -
Drug Bioinformatics
Prof Dr Olga Kalinina -
Drug Design and Optimization
Prof Dr Anna K. H. Hirsch -
Genome Mining for Secondary Metabolites
Dr Chengzhang Fu -
Human-Microbe Systems Bioinformatics
Jun Prof Dr Alexey Gurevich -
Microbial Drugs
Prof Dr Marc Stadler -
Microbial Natural Products
Prof Dr Rolf Müller -
Microbiota-Associated Natural Products
Dr Julian Hegemann -
Natural products from underexplored pathways and extreme environments
Dr Florian Hubrich -
Synthetic biology of microbial natural products
Dr Kenan Bozhüyük
Technology Platforms
To support innovative research, platforms offer services for scientists and partners of the HZI, thus enabling them to concentrate on their own core competencies.
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Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory
Dr Kai Schulze -
Central Facility for Microscopy
Dr Mathias Müsken -
Core Facility of Comparative Medicine
Dr Marina Greweling-Pils -
Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting
Dr Lothar Gröbe -
Genome Analytics
Dr Robert Geffers -
Mouse Pathology
Dr Marina Greweling-Pils -
Proteome Analytics
Prof Dr Lothar Jänsch -
Recombinant Protein Expression
Dr Joop van den Heuvel -
Transgenic Mice
Prof Dr Dagmar Wirth