Center for Biotechnology and Biomedicine

 


Nachwuchsgruppenleiter am BBZ: Dr. Thole Züchner (links) und Dr. David Singer

 

Junior Research Groups

List of staff (in German)

The essential factor is a scientifically stimulating atmosphere, part of which will be a certain reorganization that has, among other things, been implemented by the establishment of independent junior research groups within the university:
 

     
Research group's homepage   Alzheimer’s disease Immun-Project
Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy
Head, research group Dr. David Singer

Research focus:
Tests of vaccines for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's are being developed and tested.
     
Research group's homepage  

Ultrasensitive Protein Detection Unit (USPDU)
Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy
Head, research group: Dr. Thole Züchner

Research focus:
To develop techniques for specific protein detection in the zeptomole range (10-21)

     
Research group's h omepage
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White Biotechnology
Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology
Head, research group: Dr. Meike Ballschmiter

Research focus: Identification of enzyme activities, Production and purification of enzymes

     
Research group's homepage  

Molecular Diagnostics - Microarray Techniques
Faculty of Medicine
Head, research group: Dr. Peter Ahnert

Research focus: Human genetic diversity, disease etiology and pathogenesis

     

Junior Research Groups until 2006

Research group's homepage  

Applied Molecular Evolution Research
Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology
Head, research group: Dr. Susanne Brakmann

Research focus: Functional optimization of nuclein acid, polymerases and exonucleases using evolutionary methods
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since 2006
Technische Universität Dortmund, Faculty of Chemistry , Department of Chemical Biology
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Research group's homepage   Protein Engineering
Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology
Head, research group: Dr. Thomas Greiner-Stöffele

Research focus: Applying and developing methods for the rational design and in vitro evolution of proteins
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seit 2006
Leader of Junior Research Group "White Biotechnology"

 

seit 2004
CSO c-Lecta GmbH
Homepage c-Lecta GmbH

     
Research group's homepage  

Solid-Phase NMR Studies of the Structure of Membrane-Associated Proteins
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Physics and Earth Science
Head, research group: Dr. Daniel Huster

Research focus: Development and application of NMR methods for the investigation of the structure and dynamics of membrane binding peptides and proteins
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2006 -2008
Leader of Junior Research Group "Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins"
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since 2008
Professorship for of medical physics and Biophysics, Universität Leipzig
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Research group's homepage   Protein-Ligand Interaction by Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry
Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy
Head, research group: Dr. Andrea Sinz

Research focus: Characterization of protein-protein interactions using modern mass spectrometric techniques
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seit 2006
Professorship for Pharmacetical Chemistry, Institute of Pharmacy, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
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Molecular Medicine of Contagious Diseases
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Head, research group: PD Dr. Reinhard Straubinger

Research focus: In vitro- and in vivo investigations designed to characterize mechanisms of persistent infection of the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, Borrelia burgdorferi
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