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

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

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