Projects (86)
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Ulrichs, Christian, Prof. Dr. rer. nat.; Dr. rer. agr. (Urban Plant Ecophysiology)
Duration of Project: 10/2018 - 12/2021
Financer: Bundesministerium für Verbraucherschutz, Ernährung und LandwirtschaftDas Vorhaben zielt auf die Entwicklung und Erprobung eines innovativen Kulturbegründungsverfahrens für Eichen, das die Vorteile der Pflanzung (geringerer Saatgutbedarf, geringere Ausfälle) mit den Vorteilen der Saat (kurzer Zeitraum zwischen Samenern ...
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Zeitz, Jutta, Prof. Dr. agr. (Soils and Environmental Science)
Duration of Project: 04/2019 - 09/2019
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Ulrichs, Christian, Prof. Dr. rer. nat.; Dr. rer. agr. (Urban Plant Ecophysiology)
Duration of Project: 08/2020 - 07/2023
Financer: Bundesministerium für Verbraucherschutz, Ernährung und LandwirtschaftSphagnum -Biomasse (SBM) eignet sich grundsätzlich sehr gut als Substratausgangsstoff im Gartenbau und damit als eine Alternative zur Verwendung von Torf in Kultursubstraten. Eine standardmäßige Nutzung von Sphagnum für die Substratherstellung ist - ...
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Zeitz, Jutta, Prof. Dr. agr. (Soils and Environmental Science)
Duration of Project: 07/2018 - 12/2022
Financer: Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und ErnährungEin Bewertungstool für Kategorien der Schutzwürdigkeit und für ein fernerkundungsbasiertes Humusmonitoring landwirtschaftlich genutzter Moore (BEWAMO).
Landwirtschaftlich genutzte Moore werden derzeitig tief entwässert und intensiv genutzt; dies ver ... EXGAVINE: Bewegungsspiele in der Virtuellen Realität als Therapieform neurologischer Erkrankungen
Stein, Christian, Dr. (Matters of Activity)
Duration of Project: 10/2018 - 03/2022
Financer: BMBFAuf Basis von Virtual Reality (VR)-Technologien sollen medizinisch-therapeutisch wirksame VR-Bewegungsspiele
als innovatives Konzept der Therapie zur Behandlung von Patienten mit neurologischen Erkrankungen entwickelt
werden. Als Ergänzung zu tradi ...-
Ulrichs, Christian, Prof. Dr. rer. nat.; Dr. rer. agr. (Urban Plant Ecophysiology)
Duration of Project: 09/2019 - 09/2022
Financer: Brandenburg/ SonstigeDie biologische Vielfalt ist heute überall auf der Welt – auch in Deutschland und Brandenburg – bedroht. Allein die Tatsache, dass von 1.000 bekannten Apfelsorten nur etwa 20 Sorten im Intensivanbau und damit im deutschen Handel von Bedeutung sind, z ...
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Jennessen, Sven, Prof. Dr. (Pedagogy for impairments of physical and motor develeopment)
Duration of Project: 07/2020 - 12/2022
Financer: Sonstige StiftungenZiel der Studie ist die Erhebung der Prävalenz von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit lebenslimitierenden und lebensbedrohlichen Erkrankungen in Deutschland. Diese liegen bis dato nicht vor, was eine adäquate Versorgungsplanung der Zeilgruppe erschwert. Da ...
ERA-Net-Verbundprojekt: Diversifizierung von Nahrungsmittelsystemen in Kenia und Uganda
Mithöfer, Dagmar, Prof. Dr. (Food Chain Management)
Duration of Project: 09/2018 - 08/2022
Financer: BMBFDiversified food systems and edible insects: Analysis of consumer preferences and markets for edible insects in Kenya and Uganda. Analysis of market entry, exit, business growth and value chain development in the edible insect business sector in Keny ...
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Schmidt, Uwe, Prof. Dr. (Section Biological Systems Technology)
Duration of Project: 06/2020 - 05/2023
Financer: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und TechnologieGegenstand des Projekts ist ein technisches System, mit dem es ermöglicht werden soll, in schweinehaltenden Betrieben, das Tierwohl zu messen, objektiv und Kennzahlenbasiert zu bewerten und richtlinienkonform zu dokumentieren.
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Klipp, Edda, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. (Theoretical Biophysics)
Duration of Project: 01/2019 - 12/2022
Financer: Europäische Union (EU) - HU als BeteiligteThe challenge addressed in the SECRETERS programme is to markedly enhance the EU’s capacity for the production of secreted high-quality recombinant proteins, with a special emphasis on therapeutic proteins (biotherapeutics) and industrial enzymes tha ...
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Ehrenhofer-Murray, Ann, Prof. Dr. (Molecular Cell Biology)
Duration of Project: 09/2019 - 09/2019
Financer: DFG: SonstigesThe discovery of the clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins in bacteria and archaea and the successful application of such CRISPR-Cas systems as a tool for genome editing have revoluti ...
A Novel Lipid (Phosphatidylthreonine)-Regulated Calcium Homeostasis in Toxoplasma Gondii
Gupta, Nishith, Dr. (Molecular Parasitology II)
Duration of Project: 02/2019 - 01/2022
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe major membrane glycerophospholipid classes, described thus far, include phosphatidylcholine,
phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine (PtdSer) and phosphatidylinositol. Our recent work has
demonstrated the natural occurrence and genetic ori ...A Quantitative Force Map of the Mitotic Spindle
Reber, Simone, (Integrative Research Institute for the Life Sciences (IRILS))
Duration of Project: 05/2018 - 07/2021
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe goal of this research proposal is to understand the way in which cells engineer micrometerscale structures. In particular, we aim to understand how different force generating systems collectively define the shape of the metaphase spindle. The bip ...
Cyclic di-AMP Metabolism and Functions in Streptomyces
Tschowri, Natalia, Dr. rer. nat. (Junior Research Groups)
Duration of Project: 03/2020 - 03/2023
Financer: DFG - SchwerpunktprogrammeThe bacterial second messenger bis-(3’,5’)-cyclic dimeric adenosine monophosphate (c-di-AMP) is produced by diadenylate cyclases with a conserved DAC domain and degraded by DHH-DHHA1 or HD domain-containing phosphodiesterases (PDEs). In bacteria, it ...
Deciphering the First Complete Mitochondrial Genomes From Appendicularia (Chordata: Tunicate)
Stach, Thomas, PD Dr. (Molecular Parasitology II)
Duration of Project: 01/2019 - 12/2021
Financer: German Israel FoundationThe phylogenetic position of Appendicularia might be crucial for the understanding of the evolution of early vertebrates. The aim of our project is to sequence complete mitochondrial genomes in order to substantiate hypotheses concerning the phylogen ...
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Erhardt, Marc, Prof. Dr. (Bacterial Physiology)
Duration of Project: 01/2020 - 12/2024
Financer: Volkswagen-Stiftung (VW)Cell decision-making is the process of cells changing their phenotype according to their intrinsic programming and in response to the microenvironmental cues. Currently, little is known about the principles dictating cell decision-making in multicell ...
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König, Bettina, Dr. (Economics of Horticultural Production)
Duration of Project: 09/2014 - 12/2019
Financer: BMBFThe aim of ginkoo is the transdiciplinary development of an innovation management model for managing complex innovations processes for sustainable land management solutions by coordinating actors. The model consists of single tools for ex-ante sustai ...
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Wicke, Susann, Prof. Dr. (Systematik Botany and Biodiversity)
Duration of Project: 09/2021 - 08/2024
Development and Modification of Chrimson for subcellular Applications
Hegemann, Peter, Prof. Dr. (Experimental Biophysics)
Duration of Project: 10/2019 - 09/2022
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe aim of the project is to further characterize and engineer Chrimson, the channelrhodopsin with the most red shifted absorption spectrum and high proton selectivity, which shares structural features both with archaeal light driven proton pumps and ...
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Schmidt, Uwe, Prof. Dr. (Section Biological Systems Technology)
Duration of Project: 08/2018 - 10/2022
Financer: Brandenburg/ SonstigeIn federal land Brandenburg, cultivation of sea buckthorn Hippophae rhamnoides L is threatened by the fruit fly Rhagoletis batava HER. Fruit damage can be up to 80 %. Farmers are in dire need of a reliable control strategy.
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Schmidt, Uwe, Prof. Dr. (Section Biological Systems Technology)
Duration of Project: 08/2016 - 12/2017
Financer: Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und ErnährungWithin the scope of future cooperation, the fertilization and irrigation management for protected cultivation of vegetable crops in China should be optimized with the use of non-invasive sensor technologies. There, the long-time experience of the Dep ...
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Brockmann, Gudrun A., Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. (Breeding Biology and Molecular Animal Breeding)
Duration of Project: 04/2019 - 01/2023
Financer: Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und ErnährungThe project aims at the development and testing of a custom-made SNP chip that is specific for the cattle breed DSN and that is suited for the genomic breeding value estimation and the management of the genomic diversity in the small breed. The proje ...
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Schmidt, Uwe, Prof. Dr. (Section Biological Systems Technology)
Duration of Project: 08/2020 - 07/2023
Financer: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und TechnologieThe distress of the animals in current animal experiments is often determined by screening and scoring of health and experimental relevant symptoms, which is carried out by veterinarians and animal caretakers by means of mostly paper-based anaesthesi ...
Effects and Underlying Mechanisms of a Probiotic on Porcine Adaptive Immune Cells
Kreuzer-Redmer, Susanne, Dr. rer. agr. (Breeding Biology and Molecular Animal Breeding)
Duration of Project: 02/2016 - 04/2019
Financer: DFG: Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe)Previous experiments have shown that dietary addition of Enterococcus faecium NCIMB 10415 (E. faecium) led to higher relative amounts of cytotoxic T cells in the gut associated immune system of weaned piglets. The proposed research project will follo ...
Einstein Profil Professur Social Intelligence
Braß, Marcel, Prof. Dr. (Social Intelligence)
Duration of Project: 10/2020 - 09/2025
Financer: Einstein Stiftung BerlinSocial intelligence, the ability to build relationships and navigate our social environment, is a fundamental part of intelligent behaviour. With the interaction between humans on the one hand and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotic systems on t ...
ENCODS 2018, Science & Society Session “Methods of an Embodied Mind”
Brecht, Michael, Prof. Dr. (Animal Physiology/Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation)
Duration of Project: 03/2018 - 09/2018
Financer: Sonstige StiftungenThe project is part of the students’ conference ENCODS 2018 (Satellite of the FENS Froum 2018 in Berlin). Participants are encouraged to discover how their research impacts society.
ERC: Mechanism of Enzyme Rhodopsin Activation (MERA)
Hegemann, Peter, Prof. Dr. (Experimental Biophysics)
Duration of Project: 10/2016 - 09/2021
Channelrhodopsin which was discovered and described as a light-gated ion channel in my laboratory, has revolutionized the field of neuroscience over the past decade by enabling researchers to specifically activate selected neurons in a large ensemble ...
ERC: The Self-Teaching Brain (BrainPlay)
Brecht, Michael, Prof. Dr. (Animal Physiology/Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation)
Duration of Project: 08/2019 - 07/2025
Financer: European Research Council (ERC) - Synergy GrantThe BrainPlay grant will approach the foundation of the human intellect, the mystery of biological learning, by using new theoretical concepts to navigate a new cognitive and behavioural paradigm. Specifically, our analysis of brain function will shi ...
Establishment of Global Histone Acetylation Patterns by HAT Complex SAS-I in S. cerevisiae
Ehrenhofer-Murray, Ann, Prof. Dr. (Molecular Cell Biology)
Duration of Project: 08/2013 - 07/2014
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeEukaryotic organisms require sophisticated mechanisms to ensure that gene expression in their genome is carried out in the correct temporal and spatial manner. Posttranslational histone modifications are one mechanism by which gene expression is cont ...
EXC 1027: Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory
Schäffner, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (Knowledge and Cultural History)
Duration of Project: 11/2012 - 10/2017
Financer: DFG-Exzellenzinitiative: ClusterDriven by the vision that Gestaltung is a fundamental mode of knowledge production, the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory developed a novel form of interdisciplinary research. Initiated by humanities sc ...
EXC 1027: Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory
Schäffner, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. phil. (Knowledge and Cultural History)
Duration of Project: 11/2017 - 12/2018
Financer: DFG-Exzellenzinitiative: ClusterDriven by the vision that “Gestaltung” is a fundamental mode of knowledge production, the Cluster
of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory” developed a novel
form of interdisciplinary research. Initiated by humanit ...EXC 2002/1: Adaptive Distributed Collective Decision Making of Bio-Inspired Robotic Swarms (SP 27)
Romanczuk, Pawel, Dr. (Junior Research Groups)
Duration of Project: 08/2020 - 07/2023
The project investigates collective decision making in spatially distributed systems inspired by the behaviour of biological collectives. Here, we are particularly interested in the ability of agents to change their social decision behaviour and thei ...
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Rolfs, Martin, Prof. Dr. (General Psychology - Active Perception and Cognition)
Duration of Project: 10/2019 - 09/2024
This research project investigates human and robot perception and aims to develop a constructive understanding of perceptual information processing. This will be done by setting up a hierarchical functional architecture for synthetic perceptual syste ...
EXC 2002/1: Collective Adaptation and Learning in Fish Schools (SP 11)
Romanczuk, Pawel, Dr. (Junior Research Groups)
Duration of Project: 06/2019 - 08/2022
The main objective is to understand the benefits of grouping for collective cognition in fish schools, in particular the specific role of group size and group diversity for collective dynamical adaptation and learning. A specific focus of the project ...
EXC 2002/1: Knowledge-Augmented Face Perception (SP 08)
Abdel Rahman, Rasha, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. (Neuralcognitive Psychology)
Duration of Project: 10/2019 - 09/2022
Face perception and categorisation is fundamental to social interactions. In humans, input from facial features is integrated with top-down influences from other cognitive domains, such as expectations, memories and contextual knowledge. In contrast ...
EXC 2002/1: Learning of Intelligent Swarm Behavior (SP 12)
Romanczuk, Pawel, Dr. (Junior Research Groups)
Duration of Project: 06/2019 - 08/2022
The main objective of the project is the systematic quantification of collective behaviour of fish in order to derive data-driven models of observed collective behaviour across different ecological contexts. Here, two important ecological contexts sh ...
EXC 2002/1: Object-Level Scene Descriptions and Attention in Visual Search (Research Unit 1, SP 01)
Rolfs, Martin, Prof. Dr. (General Psychology - Active Perception and Cognition)
Duration of Project: 09/2019 - 08/2022
This project focuses on the potential of object-level search processes for understanding visual scene analysis in humans and assesses their potential for real-world scene interpretation and search tasks by computer vision systems. In order to perform ...
EXC 2002/1: Science of Intelligence (SCIoI)
Pauen, Michael, Prof. Dr. (Philosophy of Spirit)
Duration of Project: 01/2019 - 12/2025
Financer: DFG Exzellenzstrategie: ClusterUnderstanding intelligence is one of the great scientific challenges of our time. Yet, in spite of extensive research efforts spanning many scientific disciplines, our understanding of intelligence remains fragmented and incomplete. The proposed Clus ...
EXC 2049/1: Comprehensive Approaches to Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders “NeuroCure”
SZF-1, Leitung Servicezentrum Forschung, (Research Service Centre)
Duration of Project: 01/2019 - 12/2025
Financer: DFG Exzellenzstrategie: ClusterNeurological and psychiatric disorders pose a massive burden to society, and our understanding of the underlying molecular and pathophysiological mechanisms is limited. In addition, translation of knowledge into clinical advances has proven difficult ...
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Zouni, Athina, PD Dr. (Honorary Chairs / Professors by Special Appointment / Part-Time Lecturers)
Duration of Project: 01/2019 - 12/2022
Oxygen photosynthesis in green plants, algae and cyanobacteria is catalysed by two large membrane protein complexes Photosystem I (PSI) and Photosystem II (PSII). Both complexes contain a reaction centre (RC) that conducts a light-driven charge trans ...
EXC 314/1: Unifying Systems in Catalysis (UniSysCat)
SZF-1, Leitung Servicezentrum Forschung, (Research Service Centre)
Duration of Project: 01/2019 - 12/2025
Financer: DFG Exzellenzstrategie: ClusterThe central scientific objective of UniSysCat (Unifying Systems in Catalysis) is to master the next stage of future challenges in catalysis: how to elucidate, create, and control reaction networks in chemical and biological catalysis at different lev ...
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Upmeier zu Belzen, Annette, Prof. Dr. (Biology Education)
Duration of Project: 01/2017 - 12/2017
Financer: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und TechnologieApp-basierte und problemorientierte Lernumgebung für das personalisierte Erwerben von Fachwissen im MINT-Bereich und von Kompetenzen der Erkenntnisgewinnung. // Das Ziel der Ausgründung ist das Angebot einer personalisierten problembasierten Lernumge ...
Field Potentials in the Auditory System
Kempter, Richard, Prof. Dr. (Computational Neuroscience)
Duration of Project: 04/2016 - 06/2020
Financer: BMBFFeldpotentiale können nicht-invasiv auf der Oberfläche des Kopfes gemessen werden. Sie können zum Beispiel durch akustische Stimuli erzeugt werden. Dieses Auditorische Hirnstammpotential hat erhebliche klinische Relevanz, aber trotzdem ist unklar, wi ...
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Grimm, Bernhard, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Prof. Dr. (Plant Physiology)
Duration of Project: 11/2017 - 12/2021
Financer: DFG: ForschergruppenChlorophyll biosynthesis provides the essential pigments for photosynthesis in photoautotrophic organisms. While almost all enzymatic steps have been elucidated, the spatio-temporal organization of the pathway as well as its functional coupling to th ...
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Gupta, Nishith, Dr. (Molecular Parasitology II)
Duration of Project: 06/2019 - 09/2019
Financer: DFG: Sonstiges Functional in vivo Studies of Algal Sensory Photoreceptors
Hegemann, Peter, Prof. Dr. (Experimental Biophysics)
Duration of Project: 06/2019 - 10/2021
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeChannelrhodopsins, that we originally discovered in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and described as a light-gated ion channels, revolutionized the field of neuroscience over the past decade by enabling neuroscientists to specifically activa ...
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Geilfus, Christoph-Martin, Prof. Dr. (Controlled Environment Horticulture)
Duration of Project: 07/2018 - 09/2022
Financer: DFG: SachbeihilfeThe apoplast is an extracellular compartment that lies outside the plasma membrane (PM). External stress factors can influence the pH of the fluid film of the leaf apoplast. For instance, the apoplastic pH (pHapo) of field bean (Vicia faba L.) leaves ...
Genetic Basis of the Hornwort’s Carbon-Concentrating Mechanism
Wicke, Susann, Prof. Dr. (Systematik Botany and Biodiversity)
Duration of Project: 03/2021 - 02/2024
Financer: DFG - SchwerpunktprogrammeBiophysical carbon concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) operating at the single-cell level have evolved independently in some eukaryotic algae and a single lineage of land plants, the hornworts. An essential component for an efficient biophysical CCM is a ...
Genetic reconfigurations en route to a holoparasitic lifestyle in plants
Wicke, Susann, Prof. Dr. (Systematik Botany and Biodiversity)
Duration of Project: 09/2021 - 08/2022
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Garfield, David, Dr. (Junior Research Groups)
Duration of Project: 10/2019 - 09/2020
Financer: DAADMutations impacting DNA regulatory elements make a disproportionate contribution to evolutionary processes and are important contributors to inter-individual variation in disease susceptibility.
We are, however, limited in our ability to predict *w ...