Services & Facilities

The MPI-CBG invests extensively in Services and Facilities to allow research scientists shared access to sophisticated and expensive technologies. The Institute also develops new technologies necessary to realize the research mission. All these features are open and available for IMPRS PhD students.

In addition, the spirit of sharing extends beyond our program. The DRESDEN-concept has united a number of institutional partners to develop synergies in research, education, infrastructure, and administration.

The impressive portfolio of scientific instruments, services, and technologies available at MPI-CBG can be viewed at the Dresden Technology Portal, which is a joint database by the DRESDEN-concept partners.

Scientific Methodology & Expertise

Group Leader	Research Fields	Methodological & Technical Expertise
Simon Alberti	Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics	Genetics and cell biology of S. cerevisiae, Dictyostelium, and cultured mammalian cells Fluorescence microscopy and time-lapse imaging Biophysical approaches such FRAP and photoconversion to study intracellular dynamics Biochemical reconstitution assays and in vitro and in vivo aggregation assays
Jan Brugués	Biophysics, Cell Biology, Systems Biology, Theoretical Biophysics	Fluorescence spinning disk microscopy LC-Polscope (quantitative polarization microscopy) Femto-second laser ablation DIC microscopy Xenopus Laevis extract preparation Spindle assembly and biochemistry Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Single molecule imaging Mathematical modeling Image processing Numerical simulation and analysis
Suzanne Eaton	Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Biophysics	Tissue explant culture and long-term imaging Fluorescence spinning disk microscopy Femto-second laser ablation Physical modeling Image processing and analysis Drosophila molecular genetics Lipid and lipoprotein biochemistry
Michael Hiller	Bioinformatics, Genomics, Systems Biology	Computational biology Bioinformatics
Alf Honigmann	Biophysics, Cell Biology	Super-Resolution Microscopy (STED, SMLM) Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Single Molecule Tracking Membrane labelling (lipids and proteins) in vivo and in vitro Micro-Patterning of Surfaces for Control of Cell Attachment, Signaling and Differentiation Reconstitution of Membrane Proteins in Model Membranes
Anthony Hyman	Cell Biology, Genomics, Biophysics	BAC recombineering Single molecule microscopy C.elegans transgenomics Protein expression and purification
Frank Jülicher	Biophysics	Theory of active matter Hydrodynamics, Continuum theories, discrete models Stochastic processes Numerical methods, simulation
Florian Jug	Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology	Graphical Models (Bayesian Networks/ Factor Graphs) Deep Learning (Classification, Domain Adaptation, etc.) Discrete Optimization Efficient Algorithms Software Design and Development
Elisabeth Knust	Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics	Drosophila genetics Immunohistochemistry, laserscanning microscopy, in-vivo imaging of embryos Electron microscopy, immuno-electronmicroscopy Cell culture Molecular biology and biochemistry
Moritz Kreysing	Biophysics, Cell Biology, Neurobiology	Custom tailored light microscopy Wave optics and statistical optics Laser micro-manipulation Thermophoresis and diffusion systems Animal and neuronal tissue dissection
Teymuras Kurzchalia	Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Lipidomics, Biochemistry	Isolation and purification of lipids from C. elegans Lipid biochemical analysis (TLC, LC/MS, etc.) Metabolic radio- and stable isotope labeling C. elegans for lipid/sterol/carbohydrate analysis Genetic analysis of the dauer stage in C. elegans Induction and analysis of responses to desiccation and hypoxia in C. elegans
Carl Modes	Biophysics, Systems Biology, Computational Biology	Theory of complex networks Applied topological and geometric methods Theoretical biophysics Theory of soft matter Numerical methods and simulations
Gene Myers	Computational Biology, Optical Engineering, Systems Biology, Computer Science	NGS sequencing and assembly High throughput microscopy Image analysis / interpretation of microscope data sets Customized control systems for microscopy Algorithms and efficient use of computer hardware
André Nadler	Cell Biology, Biochemistry	Organic synthesis & chemical probe development NMR spectroscopy Lipid biochemistry Photoaffinity probes Live cell photoactivation experiments Live cell imaging
Caren Norden	Cell Biology, Developmental Biology	Imaging (live imaging, SPIM, confocal microscopy, superresolution) Quantitative analysis (Fiji, MatLab, R) Theoretical approaches Molecular biology Transcriptomics
Gaia Pigino	Cell Biology, Biophysics, Computational Biology	3D electron microscopy and various techniques for TEM (plastic embedding, high-pressure freezing, freeze substitution, negative staining, ultramicrotomy, etc.), cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography, sub-tomogram averaging, and single particle analysis, correlative light- and electron-microscopy, Immunolabelling and immunogold labelling, TIRF microscopy, single molecule tracking, cell culture, flagella and cilia isolation purification of axonemal protein components
Jochen Rink	Developmental Biology, Cell Biology, Computational Biology	Planarian regeneration Antibody production and staining of whole mounts and tissue sections. Quantitative Western Blotting In situ hybridization of whole mounts and tissue sections Next generation Sequencing and NGS data analysis
Steffen Rulands	Biophysics	Statistical non-equilibrum physics Stochastic processes Monte Carlo simulations Statistical inference Analysis of next-generation sequencing experiments
Ivo Sbalzarini	Computational Biology, Computer Science, Systems Biology	mesh-free discretization schemes for partial differential equations Bayesian bio-image analysis parallel high-performance computing bio-inspired computation image-based modeling and simulation of biological processes in space and time
Andrej Shevchenko	Proteomics, Lipidomics	mass spectrometry Shotgun lipidomics LC-MS/MS
Jacqueline Tabler	Developmental Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics	Ex vivo imaging of mammalian tissues Quantitative microscopy Mammalian genetics Primary cell culture
Dora Tang	Synthetic Biology, Biophysics, Materials Science	Protocell models High pressure for soft matter Cell free expression Biophysical characterisation Microfluidics
Pavel Tomancak	Developmental Biology, Bioinformatics	Light sheet microscopy Biological image analysis Image-based genomics Transcriptomics
Nadine Vastenhouw	Developmental Biology, Genetics, Systems Biology	Molecular biology such as cloning, (q)PCR, ChIP, and Western blotting Genomics approaches such as RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and ATAC-Seq Zebrafish techniques such as transplantations, injections, in situs, and CRISPR mediated mutagenesis
Vasily Zaburdaev	Systems Biology, Theoretical Biophysics	Biological physics Stochastic processes Cell motility Biofilms Random walks
Christoph Zechner	Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology	Stochastic models of molecular networks Statistical inference & learning Molecular computing & nanotechnology Signal processing & adaptive systems
Marino Zerial	Cell Biology, Computational Biology, Systems Biology	Synthetic biology High resolution imaging siRNA delivery systems for functional genomics Image analysis and data extraction Mathematical modeling Systems biology, physics and theory

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2020 PhD Positions

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