Junior Research Groups

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

• Neural mechanisms enabling context-dependent sensorimotor flexibility (Dr. Jan Ache – Biocenter / Chair of Neurobiology and Genetics)
• 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)
• Deciphering molecular mechanisms of bacterial cell death and persistence using antibiotic combinations (Ana Rita Brochado – Biocenter / Chair of Microbiology)
• Adaptive-innate lymphocyte crosstalk - mechanisms, functions and consequences (Prof. Dr. Georg Gasteiger – Medical Faculty / Chair of Systems Immunology II)
• Encoding a time-compensated sun compass (Dr. Basil El Jundi – Biocenter / Chair of Zoology II) 
• A Novel Approach in Neuropharmacology: Targeting GABA(A)R-Associated Proteins (Dr. Hans Micheal Maric – Biocenter / Rudolf Virchow Center / Chair of Biotechnology and Biophysics) 
• 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)
• Practical Reasons before Kant (1720-1780) (Dr. Sonja Schierbaum – Faculty of Human Sciences / Institute for Philosophy)

• 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)