Your teachers come from the university, the medical faculty, the Max-Planck Institutes and the Primate Center
Groups | Institution | Topic | Organisms | Techniques |
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Invertebrate model systems
Prof. Ernst Wimmer | Faculty of Biology | - Stink gland biology - Evolution of development - Pest control | Several Diptera, red flour beetle Tribolium | Transgenesis, RNAi, development of novel transgenic tools |
Prof. Gregor Bucher | Faculty of Biology | - Insect head development and evolution - Brain development and evolution | Red flour beetle Tribolium | RNAi, transgenics, genetics, RNA-seq, in vivo imaging, development of novel transgenic tools |
Dr. Nico Posnien | Faculty of Biology | - Evolution and development | Spider, Drosophila, Tribolium | Population genetics, RNA-seq, RNAi |
Dr. Gerd Vorbrüggen | MPI-BPC | Muscle development | Fruit fly Drosophila | Genetics, biochemistry |
Prof. Reinhard Schuh | MPI-BPC | Tracheal development | Fruit fly Drosophila | Genetics, imaging |
Dr. Julia Gross | Medical faculty | Extracellular vesicles in signaling | Fruit fly Drosophila | Cell biology, genetics, imaging |
Prof. Jochen Rink | MPI-BPC | Regeneration | Flatworms | Signaling, regeneration, diversity |
Vertebrate model systems
Prof. Gregor Eichele | MPI-BPC | Chronobiology | Mouse | Knock-out and knock-in mice, embryological, behavioral essays |
Dr. Roland Dosch | Medical faculty | Oogenesis | Zebrafish Danio rerio | Genetics, biochemistry |
Cell biology
Prof. Sigrid Hoyer-Fender | Faculty of Biology | Centrosome Biology | Human cell culture | siRNA mediated knockdown, biochemstry |
Dr. Niklas Engels | Medical faculty | Mammalian Immune system | Human cell culture | |
Prof. Jürgen Wienands | Medical faculty | Mammalian Immune system | Human cell culture | |
Dr. Michael Engelke | Medical faculty | Mammalian Immune system | Human cell culture | |
Prof. Dirk Görlich | MPI-BPC | Cellular logistics |
Note that many more groups are working on developmental biology in Göttingen and will welcome you for rotations, theses and subsequent PhD projects. Please browse the web sites of the university medical faculty, the Max-Planck-Instituts of Biophysical Chemistry, Max-Planck-Insitute of Experimental Medicine, and the primate center for more information.