There are 26 research groups currently based at the MPIB, including 3 emeritus research groups: • Bacteriophages: Microbiology, Bacteriophages, RNA polymerases, Structural Biology, Biochemistry (Maria Sokolova) • Cell and Virus Structures: Structural Biology, Cryo-Electron Tomography, Viruses, Membrane trafficking (John Briggs) • Cell Dynamics: Phagocytosis, Actin Dynamics, Cell Motility (Günther Gerisch) • Cellular and Molecular Biophysics: Biophysics, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Single Molecule, Synthetic Biology (
Petra Schwille) • Cellular Biochemistry: Molecular Chaperones, Protein Folding, Protostasis, Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases (
Franz-Ulrich Hartl) • Chaperonin-assisted Protein Folding: Protein Folding and Assembly, Rubisco, GroEL and GroES, Mass Spectrometry (Manajit Hayer-Hartl) • Chromatin Biology: Genetics and Biochemistry of Chromatin, Transcription, Histone Modifications, Drosophila Development (Jürg Müller) • Chromosome Biology: Cell division, Meiosis (Wolfgang Zachariae) • Computational Systems Biochemistry: Systems Biology, Proteomics, Mass Spectrometry, Bioinformatics (Jürgen Cox) • CryoEM Technology: Cryo-Electron Tomography, Focused Ion Beam Milling, correlated light microscopy, in situ Structural Biology, visual Proteomics (Jürgen Plitzko) • DNA Hybridnanomaterials: DNA Nanotechnology, DNA-Silica Hybridnanomaterials, Bionanotechnology, Biophysics (Amelie Heuer-Jungemann) • Immunoregulation: Immunity, Macrophage: T cell cross-talk, Self-Tolerance, Amino Acid metabolism (Peter Murray) • Machine Learning and Systems Biology: biomedical research, data mining, machine learning, biological systems (Karsten Borgwardt) • Mechanisms of Protein Biogenesis: RNA Biology; Translation Dynamics; Protein Folding; Systems Biology (Danny Nedialkova) • Molecular Imaging and Bionanotechnology: Super-Resolution Microscopy, DNA Nanotechnology, Biophysics, Single-Molecule Studies (
Ralf Jungmann) • Molecular Machines and Signaling: Structural Biology, Ubiquitin Proteasome System, Ubiquitin-like Proteins (
Brenda Schulman) • Molecular Medicine: Integrin, Adhesion Signalling, Mouse Genetics (Reinhard Fässler) • Molecular Structural Biology: Cryo-Electron Tomography, Electron Microscopical Structure Research, Protein and Cell Structure, Protein Degradation (
Wolfgang Baumeister) • Proteomics and Signal Transduction: Mass Spectrometry, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Cancer (
Matthias Mann) • Structural Cell Biology: Structural Studies, RNA Transport, RNA Surveillance, RNA Degradation (
Elena Conti) • Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Machines: DNA Replication Dynamics, Structural Biology, Single-Molecule Imaging, Biophysics (Karl Duderstadt) • Structure Research: Structural Biology, Methods of Protein Crystallography, Protein Degradation, Medicinal Chemistry (
Robert Huber) • Totipotency: Mechanistic Cell Biology, Genomics and Biochemistry of Chromatin Reprogramming, Transcription, Mouse Genetics (Kikuë Tachibana) • Translational Medicine: Fibronectin, Integrin, Bone, Disease (Inaam Nakchbandi) == Graduate Program ==