Principle investigators

The Collaborative Research Center brings together 16 principal investigators from six different institutions.
Please click on the names for contact details.

Gert Bange

Project P11
Spatiotemporal regulation of peritrichous flagellation in Bacillus subtilis

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Gert Bange
Faculty of Chemistry
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Mehrzweckverfügungsgebäude
Hans-Meerwein-Straße
D-35043 Marburg

Phone
+49-(0)6421-28-23361

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Anke Becker

Project P07
Spatial organization and temporal dynamics of
multi-replicon genomes
in alpha-rhizobia

Affilitation
Prof. Dr. Anke Becker
Faculty of Biology
Philipps-Universität
Mehrzweckverfügungsgebäude
Hans-Meerwein-Straße
D-35043 Marburg

Phone
+49-(0)6421-28-24451

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Roland Beckmann

Project P13
Co-translational membrane targeting by SRP and FlhF

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Roland Beckmann
Department of Biochemistry
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25
D-81377 München

Phone
+49-(0)89-2180-76900

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Marc Bramkamp

Project P05
Apical cell growth and generation of cellular asymmetry in corynebacteria

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Marc Bramkamp
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Biologiezentrum
Am Botanischen Garten 1-9
D-24118 Kiel

Phone
+49-(0)431-880-4341

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Chase Broedersz

Project P06
Physical principles of chromosome organization
and segregation by ParABS
and SMC

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Chase Broedersz
Faculty of Physics
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Theresienstr. 37
D-80335 München

Phone
+49-(0)89-2180-4538

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Erwin Frey

Project P03
Generic mechanisms for
spatiotemporal protein patterns in bacterial cells

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Erwin Frey
Faculty of Physics
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Theresienstr. 37
D-80333 München

Phone
+49-(0)89-2180-4537

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Ulrich Gerland

Project P10
Quantitative analysis of
a spatial toggle switch and one-component signaling
in bacteria

Affiliation
Faculty of Physics
Technische Universität München
James-Franck-Str. 1
D-85748 Garching

Phone
+49-(0)89-289-12394

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Peter Graumann

Project P14
Chromosome and protein
dynamics during the insertion of membrane proteins into the cell membrane

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Peter Graumann
Faculty of Chemistry
Philipps-Universität
Mehrzweckverfügungsgebäude
Hans-Meerwein-Straße
D-35043 Marburg

Phone
+49-(0)6421-28-22210

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Kirsten Jung

Project P09
Spatiotemporal dynamics of low-copy number receptors

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung
Department of Biology I
Ludwig-Maximilians-Uninversität
Großhaderner Str. 2-4
D-82152 Martinsried

Phone
+49-(0)89-2180-74500

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Peter Lenz

Project P08
Modeling the spatial organization of bacterial chromosomes

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Peter Lenz
Faculty of Physics
Philipps-Universität
Renthof 5
D-35041 Marburg

Phone
+49-(0)6421-28-24326

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Kai Papenfort

Project P15
Spatiotemporal dynamics of a
membrane-associated RNA-binding protein and its cargo in Vibrio cholerae

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Kai Papenfort
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Institute of Microbiology
BIZ, M1E3
Winzerlaer Straße 2
D-07745 Jena

Phone
+49-(0)3641-93-95753

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Petra Schwille

Project P02
In vitro reconstitution of nucleoid-guided cargo positioning by ParA
ATPases

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Petra Schwille
Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Am Klopferspitz 18
D-82152 München

Phone
+49-(0)89-8578-2900

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Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

Project P01
Spatiotemporal regulation of cell division and motility in Myxococcus xanthus

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Lotte Søgaard-Andersen
Department of Ecophysiology
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 10
D-35043 Marburg

Phone
+49-(0)6421-178201

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Victor Sourjik

Project P16
Diffusional properties of proteins in a bacterial cell

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik
Department of Systems and Synthetic Microbiology
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8
D-35043 Marburg

Phone
+49-(0)6421-546858

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Martin Thanbichler

Project P04
Budding and asymmetric cell division in Hyphomonas neptunium

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Martin Thanbichler
Faculty of Biology
Philipps-Universität
Hans-Meerwein-Str. 4
D-35043 Marburg

Phone
+49-(0)6421-2821809

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Kai Thormann

Project P12
Molecular and mechanistic basis for spatiotemporal organization of polar and lateral flagella

Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Kai Thormann
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology
Justus-Liebig-Universität
Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32
D-35392 Gießen

Phone
+49-(0)641-9935545

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