Independent Research Groups

• Ilka Bischofs-Pfeifer Max-Planck Research Group - The Bischofs Lab studies complex adaptive traits (CATs) in beneficial Bacilli at the behavioral and mechanistic level aiming to understand how the gene regulatory network controls them.
• Adrian Brunzel Max-Planck Research Group - The Brunzel Lab focuses on the computational design and directed evolution of enzymes, to create new catalytic functions for sustainable chemistry and energy conversion.
• Rebecca Hinrichs-Schlosser Microcosm Earth Research Group - The Hinrichs-Schlosser Group aims to uncover how nucleases orchestrate DNA and RNA metabolism to drive bacterial adaptation, with a particular focus on the stationary growth phase, DNA uptake, and the coupling between the SOS response and genome stability.
• Judith Klatt Microcosm Earth Research Group - The Klatt Groups aims at understanding microbial nutrient and carbon cycling in Earth’s present and past humid realm.
• Maren Nattermann Max-Planck Research Group - The Nattermann group aims at understanding CoA-enzyme interactions and the engeneering of synthetic CoA analogs to establish fully CoA-independent synthetic cascades.
• Martina Preiner Microcosm Earth Research Group - The Preiner Group concentrates on studying geochemical protoenzymes and how the key molecules of metabolic pathways were selected in early chemical evolution.
• Johannes Rebelein DFG Emmy Noether Group - The Rebelein Lab characterizes and engineers metalloenzymes to elucidate the underlying principals and mechanisms of metalloenzyme catalysis.
• Jan Schuller DFG Emmy Noether Group/ERC Grantee - The Schuller Group investigates the structure and function of bioenergetic machines using cryoEM single particle analysis.