Center SynGen Mitglieder

Interests: Cell-intrinsic immunity, innate immunity, virus-host interactions, virus-associated carcinogenesis, human virome, virome-host interactions, viral diversity

Interests: Computational biology, bioinformatics, cancer genomics, cancer epigenomics, tumor immunology

Interests: Bacterial secretion systems, host-pathogen-interaction, membrane transport,
synthetic microbiology

Interests: Epigenetics, epitranscriptomics, centromere and chromatin biology

Interests: Synthetic cells, DNA/RNA nanotechnology, RNA origami, biophysics, synthetic immunology

Interests: Gene therapy, viral vectors, translational research, gene editing, genome engineering

Interests: Natural/artificial DNA systems, 3D genome organization, transcription control, systems biology, biophysics, light microscopy, image processing, quantitative/computational biology

Interests: Multiscale simulations, biophysics, protein-DNA complexes, structuring of soft matter, materials design, advanced programmable systems

Interests: Cellular plasticity, cell fate engineering, disease modeling, transcriptional networks, stem cell biology, cancer neuroscience

Interests: Protein engineering, genome editing, directed evolution, synthetic biology

Interests: cancer, tumor microenvironment, immune regulation, organoids, tumoroids

Interests: Synthetic membrane biology, genomically minimal cells, lipid biochemistry, synthesis and origin of life

Interests: Synthetic biology, synthetic genomics, microbiology, molecular biology, genome architecture and evolution

Interests: DNA nanotechnology, DNA hydrogels, functional sequence-programmable materials, microrheology, viscoelasticity, data storage, information processing

Interests: Bioorganic chemistry: synthetic nucleic acids and peptide chemistry. Functional nucleic acid architectures: fluorescence, electron & energy transfer, multichromophores, photo-DNAzymes, DNA-carbon nanotube & DNA-nanoparticle conjugates, RNA labelling

Interests: Microfluidic tissue culture, organ on chip, cancer cell metabolism, basic cell metabolism (from yeast to human cells), drug discovery and validation, cellular reprograming and differentiation

Interests: Genetic engineering, CRISPR screens, CAR T cells

Interests: Microbial systems biology, interspecies molecular cross-talk, synthetic biology, computational biology, evolution

Interests: DNA nanotechnology, biophysics

Interests: Gene editing, calcium, pharmacology, ion channels, hiPSC organoids

Interests: Mammalian gene regulation, functional genomics, synthetic biology

Interests: Ethics, moral psychology

Interests: Holistic process development — from genes to processes, enzyme catalysis, electro-biotechnology and CO₂ conversion

Biophotonics, Biophysics, Micro-Robotics

Interests: RNA-protein interaction networks, synthetic genomics & genome engineering, deep learning for RNA function prediction, programmable RNA tools, spatial RNA biology, stem cells, early development & embryonic gene regulation

Interests: Cancer genomics, interception, initiation, and detection, cellular and molecular biology, single cell DNA and RNA sequencing, scDNA-seq, scRNA-seq, organoids, organ-on-chip

Interests: Cell biology, yeast synthetic biology, centrosomes/cilia, cell cycle

Interests: Deep learning for regulatory genomics, gene regulation, cis-regulatory elements

Interests: Genomics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, sequence design

Interests: Genome editing, directed evolution, protein engineering, gene therapy, synthetic genomics

Interests: Cancer genomics, synthetic genomics, tumor evolution, transgenic models

Interests: Signaling networks, cancer genomics, genetic interactions, high-throughput screening, organoid models

Interests: Hepatitis E virus, stem cell culture models, molecular virology

Interests: Myocardial injury, ischemia/reperfusion, hibernating myocardium, cell implantation, epigenetic modification, RNA-nanoparticles

Interests: Genome biology, developmental regulatory genomics

Interests: Synthetic metabolism, economic principles in cell biology, microbial physiology

Interests: Synthetic biology and molecular tool development, microbial systems biology, lab automation, computational biology, genome structure and function

Interests: Systems biology, genetics, proteostasis, meiosis and genome recombination, evolution

Interests: Intrinsically disordered proteins, single molecule biophysics, genetic code expansion, nanoscopic, chemical biology, synthetic biology

Interests: Viral vectors, genomics, synthetic gene circuits

Interests: Immune diversity, deaminases, trypanosoma, delivery, antibody development

Interests: Biocatalysis, directed evolution, enzyme engineering, biohybrid systems, whole-cell catalysts, structure-function relationship, integration of natural and artificial systems

Interests: Developmental biology, single cell genomics, evolution, neural crest, fish

Interests: Machine learning, causal inference, gene regulatory networks, spatial and multi-omics, cancer genomics, population genetics and human cohorts

Interests: Mitochondrial quality control, mitochondrial diseases

Interests: Soft matter, liquid-liquid phase separation, DNA nanotechnology, hyperuniformity