Junior Research Groups
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) supports through different thematic research projects the setup of junior research groups.
Current Projects
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FiRe-UPec: Exploiting host pathways to treat antibiotic resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli infections (Dr. Carmen Aguilar – Institute for Molecular Infection Biology / Research Center for Infectious Diseases)
- Qecs - Quantenpunkte als deterministische effiziente Clusterzustandsquellen (Dr. Tobias Huber – Chair of Technical Physics)
Qualified young researchers have the opportunity to qualify for a university professorship over a period of six years by leading a junior research group on their own responsibility.
Current Projects
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Evolution of Social Wound Care in Ants (Dr. Erik Frank – Biocenter / Chair of Zoology III)
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The Hittite Historical Annals: Origins, Purpose, and Afterlife (Dr. James Burgin – Faculty of Arts / Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Studies)
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Neural mechanisms enabling context-dependent sensorimotor flexibility (Dr. Jan Ache – Biocenter / Chair of Neurobiology and Genetics)
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Studies on the role of microtubule and actin filament regulatory proteins in megakaryo- and thrombopoiesis(Dr. Markus Bender – University Hospital Würzburg / Rudolf Virchow Center / Chair of Experimental Biomedicine I)
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Deciphering molecular mechanisms of bacterial cell death and persistence using antibiotic combinations (Ana Rita Brochado – Biocenter / Chair of Microbiology)
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Adaptive-innate lymphocyte crosstalk - mechanisms, functions and consequences (Prof. Dr. Georg Gasteiger – Medical Faculty / Chair of Systems Immunology II)
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Encoding a time-compensated sun compass (Dr. Basil El Jundi – Biocenter / Chair of Zoology II)
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A Novel Approach in Neuropharmacology: Targeting GABA(A)R-Associated Proteins (Dr. Hans Micheal Maric – Biocenter / Rudolf Virchow Center / Chair of Biotechnology and Biophysics)
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Functional Chiral Four-Coordinate Boron Compounds (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Nowak-Król – Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy / Institute of Inorganic Chemistry / Center for Nanosystems Chemistry)
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Practical Reasons before Kant (1720-1780) (Dr. Sonja Schierbaum – Faculty of Human Sciences / Institute for Philosophy)
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MYC-dependent co-ordination of RNA polymerase activities during ribosome biogenesis and cell growth (Prof. Dr. Elmar Wolf – Biocenter / Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
