The Faculty and their research interests

The International Graduate School in Genetics and Functional Genomics and its follow up program - the International Graduate School in Development Health and Disease offer the most stimulating and productive research environment, characterized by a high degree of interdisciplinarity.

Almost all major animal, plant and microbial model systems are represented in the different groups. Research projects focus on cellular, molecular, developmental, physiological, neuro- and evolutionary genetics and genomics.

A short overview about the IGS GFG faculty and their areas of research is provided in the table below. To learn more about the profile of the different groups, simply click on the research description.

For IGSDHD research groups and offered projects please go to: http://www.igsdhd.uni-koeln.de/research.html

Group leader	Research description
Jens Brüning	Mouse genetics and metabolism
Wim Damen	Evolution and Development in Arthropoda
Jürgen Dohmen	Molecular biology of the ubiquitin/proteasome system, and SUMO protein modification in yeast
Ulf-Ingo Flügge	Molecular plant physiology and biotechnology, functional genomics of plant transporters
Ute Hoecker	The effect of light on plant development
Jonathan Howard	Novel large GTPases as cell-autonomous resistance factors
Martin Hülskamp	Genetic, cell biological and molecular analysis of pattern formation, differentiation and cell morphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana
Sigrun Korsching	Genetics of olfactory nervous system development and function in vertebrates
Thomas Langer	Proteolysis in mitochondria
Michael Melkonian	Cell and evolutionary biology of algae
Maria Leptin	Mechanisms of morphogenesis in Drosophila
Carien Niessen	Intercellular adhesion and polarity in epithelial morphogenesis and carcinogenesis
Angelika Noegel	The actin cytoskeleton: Function and Regulation Cellular Genomics in Dictyostelium
Manolis Pasparakis	Signalling pathways in the pathogenesis of inflammatory and degenerative diseases
Mats Paulsson	Functions and architecture of the extracellular matrix
Siegfried Roth	Genetics and evolutionary genomics of oogenesis in insects (Drosophila melangoaster and Tribolium castanei)
Karin Schnetz	Genetics and genomics of pleiotropic regulation in Escherichia coli
Thomas Wiehe	Population Genetics and Bioinformatics