Home Research Departments & Research Groups Departments, Emeritus Groups & Research Groups Departments Nils Brose – Molecular Neurobiology Patrick Cramer – Molecular Biology (current President of the Max Planck Society) Dirk Görlich – Cellular Logistics Christian Griesinger – NMR-based Structural Biology Helmut Grubmüller – Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Stefan W. Hell – NanoBiophotonics Klaus-Armin Nave – Neurogenetics Jochen Rink – Tissue Dynamics and Regeneration Marina V. Rodnina – Physical Biochemistry Claus Ropers – Ultrafast Dynamics Melina Schuh – Meiosis Holger Stark – Structural Dynamics Alec M. Wodtke – Dynamics at Surfaces Emeritus Groups Gregor Eichele – Rhythms - Beating Cilia and Ticking Clocks Herbert Jäckle – Molecular Developmental Biology Reinhard Jahn – Laboratory of Neurobiology Thomas Jovin – Laboratory of Cellular Dynamics Stefan H.E. Kaufmann – Systems Immunology U. Benjamin Kaupp – Biophysics of Cellular Signal Transduction Reinhard Lührmann – Cellular Biochemistry Erwin Neher – Membrane Biophysics Walter Stühmer – Optogenetics Jürgen Troe – Spectroscopy and Photochemical Kinetics Research Groups Frauke Alves – Translational Molecular Imaging Loren B. Andreas – Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Marina Bennati – Electron-Spin Resonance Spectroscopy Ashwin Chari – Structural Biochemistry and Mechanisms Bert L. de Groot – Computational Biomolecular Dynamics Gregor Eichele (deputy) – Clinical Neuroscience Alex Faesen – Biochemistry of Signal Dynamics Jens Frahm – Biomedical NMR Stefan Glöggler – NMR Signal Enhancement Aljaz Godec – Mathematical Biophysics Hauke Hillen – Structure and Function of Molecular Machines Stefan Jakobs – Structure and Dynamics of Mitochondria Oleksiy Kovtun – Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Trafficking Peter Lenart – Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Oocytes Juliane Liepe – Quantitative and Systems Biology Sonja Lorenz – Ubiquitin Signaling Specificity Gražvydas Lukinavičius – Chromatin Labeling and Imaging Elisa Oberbeckmann – Chromatin dynamics Marieke Oudelaar – Genome Organization and Regulation Luis Pardo – Oncophysiology Jeong Seop Rhee – Neurophysiology Michael Sereda – Translational Neurogenetics Johannes Söding – Quantitative and Computational Biology Alexander Stein – Membrane Protein Biochemistry Henning Urlaub – Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Markus Zweckstetter – Structure Determination of Proteins Using NMR 13 departments, 10 emeritus groups, and 26 independent research groups are currently scientifically active at the institute. Six of our scientists were appointed in the framework of the cooperation with the University of Göttingen.
