Research Projects
The RTG focuses on the characterization of transport processes at a molecular level and the interaction of transport proteins with membranes. This highly challenging research field has a strong medical impact and the perspective of future growth.
The aim of the RTG is to excellently qualify doctoral researchers by providing cutting-edge education and by strengthening interdisciplinary research in the field of ‘Transport across and into membranes’. The availability of manifold techniques within the RTG creates an excellent platform that enables doctoral researchers to acquire a broad spectrum of unique skills, providing them a wide selective advantage within the competitive job-market for scientists.
P1 Unusual ammonium transporters
Principal investigator: Susana Andrade
P2 Import and export and secondary metabolite production
Principal investigator: Andreas Bechthold
P3 Novel factors involved in transport of proteins to respiratory chain complexes
(until 06/2020)
Principal investigator: Thomas Becker
P4 Structure and function of secondary transport proteins
Principal investigator: Oliver Einsle
P5 Proton translocation by respiratory complex I
Principal investigator: Thorsten Friedrich
P6 Lipid bilayer effects on membrane transport in biophysics and pharmaceutics
Principal investigator: Heiko Heerklotz
P7 The role of structural lipids for proton translocation by respiratory complexes
Principal investigator: Carola Hunte
P8 Cellular mechanisms of copper transport and delivery to cytochrome oxidase
Principal investigator: Hans-Georg Koch
P9 Unterstanding transport through ion channels by molecular dynamics simulations and thermodynamic integration
Principal investigator: Thorsten Koslowski
P10 Protein transport across and into the mitochondrial outer membrane
Principal investigator: Chris Meisinger
P11 Liposomal delivery of bacteriophages to target intracellular bacterial pathogens
Principal investigator: Winfried Römer
P12 Stoichiometry of heteromeric assemblies across TRP channel families (until 12/2020)
Principal investigator: Maximilian Ulbrich
P13 Transport processes across peroxisomal membranes
Principal investigator: Bettina Warscheid
Novel Projects
P14 Mycobacterial Membrane Transporter – An Entry Way for Therapeutic Intervention (starting 07/2020)
Principal investigator: Claudia Jessen-Trefzer
P15 Elucidation of the mechanism and biological role of selected GPCRs (starting 01/2021)
Principal investigator: Stefan Günther
