MPI for Biology Tübingen

IMPRS Faculty

The faculty members of the IMPRS ‘From Molecules to Organisms’ are internationally recognized researchers working at the cutting edge of their fields. Our research groups use a broad range of approaches, techniques and diverse model systems.

Faculty for the IMPRS ‘From Molecules to Organisms’ are located at the Max-Planck Institute for Biology and the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory as well as at a number of Institutes at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen.

The faculty list below shows all current faculty , including information on where they are based and if they are currently recruiting doctoral researchers. You can find out more about their research and available PhD projects by selecting the faculty member of interest.

Can Aztekin, Max Planck Group Leader at the FML Tübingen

Can Aztekin

Structural Regeneration
IMPRS Faculty
Recruiting doctoral researchers

Prof. Dr. Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt from the University of Tübingen

Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt

Novel antibiotics and their mechanism of action
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Michael Borg

Michael Borg

Development and Chromatin Biology in Red Algae
IMPRS Adjunct Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Dr. Yu-Chu Chang, a group leader at the MPI for Biology, Tübingen

Yu-Chu Chang

Membrane protein folding, stability, and functions
IMPRS Adjunct Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Dr. Patience Chatukuta, a group leader in the MPI of Biology, Tübingen

Patience Chatukuta

African Plant Genomics
IMPRS Adjunct Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Susana Coelho a director at the MPI for Biology, Tübingen

Susana Coelho

Algal Development and Evolution
IMPRS Faculty
Recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Karl Forchhammer, a professor at the University of Tübingen in his laboratory.

Karl Forchhammer

Nutrient-Starvation-Induced Acclimation Processes and Cell Differentiation in Cyanobacteria
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Marcus Hartmann, a group leader at the MPI for Biology, Tübingen

Marcus Hartmann

Molecular recognition and catalysis
IMPRS Adjunct Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Yen-Ping Hsueh, Max Planck Director at the MPI for Biology, Tübingen

Ping Hsueh

Complex Biological Interactions
IMPRS Faculty
Recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Daniel Huson, a professor at the University of Tübingen

Daniel Huson

Algorithms for Computational Biology
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Catia Igreja, a group leader at the MPI for Biology, Tübingen

Cátia Igreja

Regulation and post-translational modification of gene expression in nematodes
IMPRS Adjunct Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Dr. Uwe Irion

Uwe Irion

Evolution of Pigment pattern formation in Danio Fish
IMPRS Adjunct Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Ralf Peter Jansen, a professor at the University of Tübingen, in front of a microscope.

Ralf-Peter Jansen

mRNA Localization and Localized Translation
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Oliver Kohlbacher in his office.

Oliver Kohlbacher

Method development in computational biology
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Picture of Thorsten Langner

Thorsten Langner

Adaptive evolution of filamentous plant pathogens
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Ruth Ley, director of the MPI for Biology, Tübingen, in her laboratory.

Ruth Ley

Microbiome Science
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Andrei Lupas, a director at the MPI for Biology, Tübingen

Andrei Lupas

Protein Evolution
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Boris Macek, a professor at the University of Tübingen

Boris Macek

Quantitative Proteomics/Mass Spectrometry/Proteogenomics
IMPRS Faculty
Recruiting doctoral researchers

Lisa Maier

Lisa Maier

Drug-Microbiome-Interactions
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

James Marsh

James Marsh

Microbiome engineering
IMPRS Adjunct Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Honour McCann, a group leader at the MPI for Biology, Tübingen

Honour McCann

Plant pathogen coevolution
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Kay Nieselt from the University of Tübingen

Kay Nieselt

Integrative Transcriptomics
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Robert Ohlendorf at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Robert Ohlendorf

Molecular Signaling
IMPRS Adjunct Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Gal Ofir, a group leader at the MPI for Biology, Tübingen

Gal Ofir

Plant Immunogenomics
IMPRS Adjunct Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Luisa Pallares, a group leader at the FML, Tübingen

Luisa Pallares

Evolutionary Genomics of Complex Traits
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Miya Pan

Qiaowei (Miya) Pan

Insect sex determination and development
IMPRS faculty
Recruiting doctroral researchers

Portrait of Dr. Tassula Proikas-Cezanne, a professor at the University of Tübingen

Tassula Proikas-Cezanne

Human WIPI β-propellers in autophagy, health and disease
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers.

Portrait of Beatrice Ramm

Beatrice Ramm

Synthetic biology approaches to pattern formation
IMPRS Faculty
Recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Doron Rapaport.

Doron Rapaport

Biogenesis and quality control of the mitochondrial outer membrane
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

portrait of Christian Rödelsperger

Christian Rödelsperger

Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics
IMPRS Adjunct Faculty
Recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Hassan Salem, a group leader at the MPI for Biology, Tübingen

Hassan Salem

Animal-Microbe Symbioses
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Erik Schäffer, a professor at the University of Tübingen

Erik Schäffer

Nanomechanics of Cellular Machines
IMPRS Faculty
Recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Rebecca Schwab, a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen

Rebecca Schwab

Ecological Genetics
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Ralf Sommer, director at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen

Ralf Sommer

Integrative Evolutionary Biology
IMPRS Faculty
Recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Adrain Streit, a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen

Adrian Streit

Genetics in parasitic nematodes
IMPRS Adjunct Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Alexander Tyakht, a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen

Alexander Tyakht

Microbiome Bioinformatics
IMPRS Adjunct Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Marja Timmermans, a professor at the University of Tübingen

Marja Timmermans

miRNAs as Mobile Signals in Development
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of Oliver Weichenrieder, a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen

Oliver Weichenrieder

Structural Biology of Selfish RNA
IMPRS Adjunct Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Portrait of John Weir, a group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory

John Weir

Structural Biochemistry of Meiosis
IMPRS Faculty
Currently not recruiting doctoral researchers

Nadine Ziemert

Nadine Ziemert

Genomics and Evolution of microbial secondary metabolites
IMPRS Faculty
Recruiting doctoral researchers