Members

Expertise: 

• Infection Biology
• Host-Pathogen-Interaction
• Zoonoses
• Cell Biology
• High Resolution Imaging

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-55174
E-Mail:      simone.bergmann(at)tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig, BRICS
Institute of Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics;
Department of Bioinformatics und Biochemistry

Expertise: 

• Virology
• Immunology
• Cell Biologie
• Molecular biology

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-5797
E-Mail:    m.brinkmann@tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institute of Genetics
Virology and innate Immunity

Expertise:

• Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pathogenicity
• Molecular Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance
• Biofilms

Contact: 
Phone:     +49(0)531-6181-3000 
E-Mail:      Susanne.Haeussler(at)helmholtz-hzi.de

Location:
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Molecular Bacteriology

Expertise:

• Microbiology
• Gene Regulatory Networks

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-55101
E-Mail:      d.jahn(at)tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig, BRICS
Institute for Microbiology

Expertise:

• Molecular mechanisms of enzymes
• Antibiotic resistance and virus–host interactions
• Time-resolved, surface-sensitive, and nanoscale vibrational spectroscopy
• Atomic force and optical near-field microscopy for label-free nanoscale imaging

Contact:
Phone:     +49(0)531-391-55243
E-Mail:     jacek.kozuch(at)tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig, BRICS
Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Expertise:

• Actinomycetes
• Antibiotics
• Regulation of antibiotic biosynthesis
• Genetic engineering and genome mining

Contact:
Phone:     +49(0)531-2616-358
E-Mail:       yvonne.mast(at)dsmz.de

Location:
Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection for Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
Bioresources for Bioeconomy and Health Research

Expertise:

• Genomics
• Antibiotics and resistance
• microbial distribution

Contact:
Phone:    +49-531-2616-390
Email:       Ulrich.Nuebel@DSMZ.de

Location:
Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection for Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
Microbial Genome Research

Expertise: 

• Infection biology
• Peptidyl-prolyl-cis/trans-isomerases
• Legionella pneumophila
• Clostridium difficile
• Paenibacillus larvae

Contact:
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-5801
E-Mail:      m.steinert(at)tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institute of Microbiology

Expertise:

• Genetics
• Cell Biology
• Live Cell Imaging
• Fungal Biology

Contact: 
Phone:     +49(0)531-391-5795
E-Mail:       a.fleissner@tu-bs.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institute of Genetics
 

Expertise:

• Molecular Immunology
• T and NK cell biology in infections
• Clinincal Proteomics & Mass Spectrometry
• Post translational modifications
• Interactomics

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-6181-3030
E-Mail:      lothar.jaensch(at)helmholtz-hzi.de

Location:
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Cellular Proteomics

Expertise:

• Neurobiology
• Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration

Contact:
Phone:     +49(0)531-391-3220
E-Mail:       m.korte@tu-bs.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institute for Cell- and Neurobiology, Department of Cellular Neurobiology

Expertise:

• Zebrafish developmental genetics
• In vivo cell biology
• Neuronal degeneration and regeneration
• Optogenetics

Contact: 
Phone:     +49(0)531-391-3230
Email:         r.koester@tu-bs.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institute for Cell- and Neurobiology, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Expertise: 

• Cytoskeleton dynamics
• Cell motility
• Actin Reorganisation in infection processes
• Live cell imaging and micromanipulation
• Genome editing

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-3256
E-Mail:      k.rottner@tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Molecular Cell Biology

Expertise:

• Respiratory viruses
• Virus cell biology
• Super-resolution microscopy

Contact: 
Phone:     +49 531 6181 2950
email:       christian.sieben(at)helmholtz-hzi.de

Location:
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research 
Nanoscale infection biology 

Expertise:

• Nonlinear and Ultrafast Spectroscopy

• Single molecule detection and confocal fluorescence microscopy
• Natural and artificial light harvesting systems
• Neurobiology

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-5328
E-Mail:      p.walla(at)tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig, BRICS 
Institute for Physical and Theroretical Chemity

Expertise:

• Prokaryotic genome dynamics
• Long-read genome assembly
• BRENDA enzyme database

Contact: 
Phone:     +49(0)531-2616-322
E-Mail:    boyke.bunk(at)dsmz.de

Location:
DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures/BRICS
Genomics and Transcriptomics
 

Expertise: 

• Algorithms
• Optimisation
• solving complex problems
• Applications

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-3109
E-Mail:      s.fekete@tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig,
Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks
Algorithms Group

Expertise:

• Statistical and Biological Physics
• Systems Biology
• Genome and Nucleus Organization
• Inflammatory and Infectious Processes

Contact:

Phone: +49(0)531-391-55217

E-mail: andriy.goychuk@tu-braunschweig.de

Location:

Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
BRICS System - Immunologie

Expertise:

• Biostatistics
• Computational statistics
• Machine Learning
• Visualization
• Exploratory Data Analysis

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-6181-3017
E-Mail:      frank.klawonn@helmholtz-hzi.de

Location:
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Bioinformatics and Statistics

Expertise:

• Computational biology
• Semantic models and knowledge graphs
• Applied artificial intelligence 
• Development of databases and web applications
• UI & UX Design

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-55105
E-Mail:       julia.koblitz(at)dsmz.de

Location:
Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures/BRICS
Department of Bioinformatics, IT and Databases
 

Expertise:

• mathematical modeling of life-science applications
• modeling of infection processes, resistance development, metabolic supply chains etc.
• ordinary and partial differential equations, dynamical systems
• models of mathematical modeling process

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-7403
E-Mail:      d.langemann@tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institut Computational Mathematics, AG PDE

Expertise:

• Bioinformatics
• Machine Learning and Data Mining
• Phylogenetics and Population Genomics
• MetaOmics
• Humanpathogenic Viruses and Micro-organisms

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-55271
E-Mail:      alice.mchardy(at)helmholtz-hzi.de

Location:
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, BRICS
Computational Biology of Infection Research

Expertise:

• Predictive mathematical models
• Infection and Immunity
• Immune Metabolism and Metabolic dysfunction
• Neuro-Endocrine-Immune-Syste

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-55210
E-Mail:      Michael.Meyer-Hermann@helmholtz-hzi.de

Location:
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, BRICS
Systems Immunology
 

Expertise:

• Computational metabolomics and proteomics

• Systems biology

• Statistical modeling and machine learning

• Standardization of “omics” methods

Contact:
Phone:     +49(0)531-5923240
E-Mail:     thomas.naake@ptb.de

Location:
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Biochemistry
Technische Universität Braunschweig/BRICS

Expertise: 

• recombinant protein production
• applied microbiology

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-55291
E-Mail:      r.biedendieck@tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig, BRICS
Institute for Microbiology

Expertise:

• Medical Biotechnology
• Biofilms
• Reactor Designs

Contact:
Phone:     +49(0)531-391955317
E-Mail:     k.dohnt(at)tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig, BRICS
Institute of Biochemical Engineering

Expertise: 

• Antibody Engineering
• Phage display
• in-vitro Evolution
• Synthetic Biology
• Biochemical Engineering
• Intrabodies
• Intrabodies

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-5731
E-Mail:      s.duebel@tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institut of Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Department Biotechnology

Expertise: 

• Morphology engineering of filamentous microorganisms
• Shear sensitivity of microorganisms
• microbioreactors
• electrobiotechnological processes
• reaction kinetics
• bioengineering, bioprocess development

Contact: 
Phone:    +49(0)531-391-55311
E-Mail:      r.krull@tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig, BRICS
Institute of Biochemical Engineering

Expertise:

• Enzyme Catalysis
• Protein Engineering
• Biochemistry

Contact:
Phone:         +49(0)531-391-55410
Email:       a.schallmey@tu-braunschweig.de

Location:
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics; Department of Biochemistry