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Research
Structured research programmes and outstanding individual funding at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences:
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CEPLAS - Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Maria von Korff Schmising
Co-Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Stanislav Kopriva (University of Cologne)
11/2012-12/2032 (3nd funding period)
Cluster of Excellence with MNF Participants
EXC 2004 Matter and Light for Quantum Computing (ML4Q)
01/2019-12/2032 (2nd funding period
SFB 1535 Microbial networking – from organelles to cross-kingdom communities (MibiNet)
Sprecher: Prof. Dr. Michael Feldbrügge
01/2023-12/2026
TRR 341 Plant Ecological Genetics
Sprecherin: Prof. Dr. Juliette de Meaux (Universität zu Köln)
Ko-Sprecherin: Prof. Dr. Korbinian Schneeberger
07/2022-06/2026
MOI IV Molecules of Infection
Jürgen Manchot Graduate School Tuning Triplets for Optics and Reactivity
Graduate Schools with MNF Participants:
Research Groups with MNF Participants:
- FOR 5682 Mechanismen der Adaptation an die Wirts-Nische in Pflanzen-besiedelnden Pilzen
- FOR 5361 KI-FOR Algorithmische Datenanalyse für die Geodäsie (AlgoForGe)
- FOR 5409 Struktur-erhaltende numerische Methoden für Volumen- und Übergangskopplung von heterogenen Modellen
- FOR 5235 Stammzellsysteme bei Getreide (CSCS): Etablierung, Aufrechterhaltung und Beendigung
- FOR 5116 Kommunikation in der Wirtspflanzen-Mikroben-Interaktion durch exRNA: ein systemanalytischer Ansatz zur Erforschung der molekularen Mechanismen und der agronomischen Anwendung
- FOR 2783 Probing the Quantum Vacuum at the High-Intensity Frontier
BYTE2BITE - Unlocking the complex genomes of European potatoes for modern breeding
Prof. Dr. Korbinian Schneeberger
01/2026-01/2030
4D-BioSTEM - 4D scanning transmission electron microscopy for structural biology
Prof. Dr. Carsten Sachse (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
01/2024-12/2029
PROSPER - Production of a second phase of hydrophobic aromatics with solvent-tolerant Pseudomonas
Prof. Dr. Nick Wierckx (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
01/2023-12/2027
STEP - Symmetry Tests in Experiments with Portable Antiprotons
Dr. Christian Smorra
04/2020-03/2027
Prof. Dr. Martin Lercher (11/2022 - 10/2027)
EcolMetabOrigin – The Energetics and Habitat of Metabolic Origin
Prof. Dr. William F. Martin (11/2021 - 10/2026)
PERLIFE – Engineering perennial barley
Prof. Dr. Maria von Korff Schmising (10/2021 - 09/2026)
SymPore – Plasmodesmata, Symplasmic pores for plant cell-to-cell communication
Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer (04/2021 - 03/2027)
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Simon
Beendete Projekte
NeXource - Next-generation Plasma-based Electron Beam Sources for High-brightness Photon Science
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hidding
LANTHANOPHORE - Innovative bioinspired strategies towards selective lanthanide complexation and separation: From bacterial chelators to applications
Prof. Dr. Lena Daumann
moreSense – The Motor Representation of Sensory Experience
Prof. Dr. Eckart Zimmermann
DYMO – Dynamic dialogue modelling
Prof. Dr. Milica Gašic
NEODYNE – Decision making: from neurochemical mechanisms to network dynamics to behaviour
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Jocham
BETACONTROL – Control of amyloid formation via ß-hairpin molecular recognition features
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoyer
PREMOL – At the crossroad of molecular physics, quantum optics and spectroscopy: ultra-high-precision molecular spectroscopy for fundamental physics
Prof. Dr. Stephan Schiller
PRO_PHAGE – Impact and interaction of prophage elements in bacterial host strains of biotechnological relevance
Prof. Dr. Julia Frunzke
SoftReVision – SOftware for the REhabilitation of Vision
Prof. Dr. Eckart Zimmermann
hybridFRET – deciphering biomolecular structure and dynamics
Prof. Dr. Claus A. M. Seidel
eMicrobevol – Early Microbial Evolution
Prof. Dr. William F. Martin