MCB Lecturers
This is a list with almost everyone who in some way or another is involved in the MCB program.
Amir Abdollahi
Affiliation: DKFZ
Field of research: Translational Radiation Oncology
e-mail: a.amir@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Sergio Acebron
Affiliation: COS
Field of research: Our lab studies how cells integrate extracellular signals to build and maintain different tissues. We pursue interdisciplinary projects to unravel how microenvironmental signals monitor genome and chromosomal stability from development to ageing and disease. To that end, we employ 2D/3D stem cell models of mouse and human development including gastruloids, and tissue homeostasis (Organoids), as well as mouse models and human primary or immortalised cancer cells. In these models, we perform detailed molecular analyses, genome-editing, 2D/3D live imaging, as well as different single cell and population OMICs techniques such as single cell genome and transcriptome sequencing (scG&T- seq).
Simon Anders
Affiliation: ZMBH
Field of research: Bioinformatics tools for omics data
e-mail: s.anders@zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de
Thomas Barends
Affiliation: MPI for Medical Research
Field of research: Our group studies anaerobic ammonium oxidation, a bacterial process that is responsible for a large part of the world’s nitrogen turnover. This process is not only very interesting because of its global importance, but also because it involves the extremely reactive intermediate hydrazine, which we humans use as a rocket fuel. Using protein crystallography and other biophysical techniques, we try to find out how bacteria produce such unusual and toxic chemicals and how they keep them under control.
Jochen Baßler
Affiliation: BZH
Field of research: Our lab is interested in the biogenesis of the large and small ribosomal subunit in eukaryotic cells. This highly dynamic process is driven by approx. 200 biogenesis factors that act on different nucleolar, nucleoplasmic and cytoplasmic pre-ribosomal particles. We are applying a wide range of biochemical, genetic and cell biological methods to study this process in S. cerevisae and in the thermophile fungi C. thermophilum.
Ilka Bischofs
Affiliation: ZMBH
Field of research:
Our lab studies bacterial signaling networks and bacterial stress responses. We work with Bacillus subtilis and use and interdisciplinary approach that combines quantitative imaging, genetic and molecular methods with biophysical and computational approaches.