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Molecular Developmental Biology
Head of the group Molecular Developmental Biology is Prof. Dr. Heinz D. Osiewacz. He is teaching at the J. W. Goethe-University since 1994. Before he was the head of the research program Molecular Biology of Aging Processes at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. At present Prof. Osiewacz is coordinator of the BMBF-funded project GerontoMitoSys. In this project 8 research groups are involved from Frankfurt (5), Darmstadt (1), Bochum (1), and Berlin (1). The main goal of this project is to mathematically model information obtained on short lived organisms regarding the role of mitochondria in the ageing process to produce predictions for the interaction of different reaction pathways involved. A translation of the information gained using simple model organisms will be achieved by respective experiments and analyses on mice and rats.
From January 2005 to December 2009 Prof. Osiewacz was the coordinator of the Integrated Project MiMage (Role of Mitochondria in Conserved Mechanisms of Ageing, www.mimage.uni-frankfurt.de).
Main research activities of the group Molecular Developmental Biology are:
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Mitochondrial quality control |
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Role of programmed cell death in degenerative processes of the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina |
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Molecular mechanisms of copper homeostasis |
Members of the scientific research group are Dr. Andrea Hamann, Dr. Jörg Servos (Postdocs), Dominik Bernhardt, Christine Breunig, Fabian Fischer, Carolin Grimm, Ingmar Strobel, Andrea Weil, Matthias Wiemer and Sandra Zintel (graduate students), Gabriele Seelbach, Alexandra Werner (technicians) and Barbara Tarazi (office). |
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geändert am 15. Februar 2012 E-Mail: Webmasterscheckhuber@bio.uni-frankfurt.de
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