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Dr. Dr. med. Franziska Blaeschke

Dr. Dr. med. Franziska Blaeschke

DKFZ

KiTZ; UKHD

Interests: Genetic engineering, CRISPR screens, CAR T cells

Dr. Viet Loan Dao Thi

Dr. Viet Loan Dao Thi

UKHD

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

Prof. Dr. med. Marc Freichel

Prof. Dr. med. Marc Freichel

DKFZ Heidelberg, UKHD

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

Prof. Dr. Dirk Grimm

Prof. Dr. Dirk Grimm

Medical Faculty and Faculty of Engineering

Sciences, Heidelberg University; BioQuant, CIID

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

Prof. Lennart Hilbert, PhD

Prof. Lennart Hilbert, PhD

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),

Institute of Biological & Chemical Systems KIT, Zoological Institute

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

Prof. Dr. Edward A. Lemke

Prof. Dr. Edward A. Lemke

JGU Mainz

IMB Mainz

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

Dr. Karol Nowicki-Osuch

Dr. Karol Nowicki-Osuch

DKFZ Heidelberg

DKFZ Hector Cancer Institute at the University Medical Center Mannheim

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

Dr. Alexander Sasse

Dr. Alexander Sasse

ZMBH, Heidelberg University

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

Dr. Iliya D. Stoev

Dr. Iliya D. Stoev

KIT

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

Prof. Dr. Hans-Achim Wagenknecht

Prof. Dr. Hans-Achim Wagenknecht

KIT

Institute of Organic Chemistry

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

Prof. Dr. Michael Boutros

Prof. Dr. Michael Boutros

Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University

DKFZ

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

Dr. Carmen M. Domínguez

Dr. Carmen M. Domínguez

KIT

Institute for Biological Interfaces 1 (IBG-1)

Interests: DNA nanotechnology, biophysics

Prof. Dr. Eileen Furlong

Prof. Dr. Eileen Furlong

EMBL

Interests: Genome biology, developmental regulatory genomics

Prof. Dr. Nora Heinzelmann

Prof. Dr. Nora Heinzelmann

IMSEAM Heidelberg

Institute for Philosophy, Heidelberg

Interests: Ethics, moral psychology

Prof. Dr. Michael Knop

Prof. Dr. Michael Knop

ZMBH, Heidelberg University

FSP-A; DKFZ

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

Prof. Dr. Miha Modic

Prof. Dr. Miha Modic

KIT

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

Prof. Dr. F. Nina Papavasiliou

Prof. Dr. F. Nina Papavasiliou

DKFZ

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

Jun-Prof. Dr. Lauren Saunders

Jun-Prof. Dr. Lauren Saunders

COS, Heidelberg University

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

Dr. Duran Sürün

Dr. Duran Sürün

Pharmakological Institut,

Heidelberg University

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

Dr. Sam Wilken

Dr. Sam Wilken

JGU Mainz

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

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Benedikt Brors

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Benedikt Brors

DKFZ Heidelberg


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

Prof. Sylvia Erhardt, PhD

Prof. Sylvia Erhardt, PhD

KIT - Molecular Cell Biology,

Zoological Institute; KIT- IBCS-FMS

Interests: Epigenetics, epitranscriptomics, centromere and chromatin biology

Dr. Ralph Grand

Dr. Ralph Grand

ZMBH, Heidelberg University

Interests: Mammalian gene regulation, functional genomics, synthetic biology

Dr. Konrad Herbst

Dr. Konrad Herbst

ZMBH, Heidelberg University


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

Dr. Mariana Kozlowska

Dr. Mariana Kozlowska

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),

Institute of Nanotechnology (INT)

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

Prof. Dr. Dominik Niopek

Prof. Dr. Dominik Niopek

IPMB, Heidelberg University

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

PD Dr. Kersten S. Rabe

PD Dr. Kersten S. Rabe

KIT

Institute for Biological Interfaces 1 (IBG-1)

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

Prof. Dr. Daniel Schindler

Prof. Dr. Daniel Schindler

ZMBH, Heidelberg University

Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg; SYNMIKRO

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

Prof. Dr. F.-Nora Vögtle

Prof. Dr. F.-Nora Vögtle

ZMBH, Heidelberg University

Network Aging Research, Heidelberg University

Interests: Mitochondrial quality control, mitochondrial diseases

Prof. Dr. Stefan Wölfl

Prof. Dr. Stefan Wölfl

Institut für Pharmazie und Molekulare

Biotechnologie (IPMB), Universität Heidelberg

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

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