Interdisciplinary cooperative research

[Translate to Englisch:] Forschungsprojekte

PhosMOrg (Phosphoregulation of BioMolecules: From Mechanisms to Organisms):

The PhosMOrg Consortium represents an interdisciplinary cooperative research group studying the role of posttranslational modifications of biomolecules with a focus on phosphorylation. Within the frame of PhosMOrg we are engaged in collaborations with the Microbiology group (Schaffrath) and the Biochemistry group (Herberg). With Dr. Schaffrath we investigate the role of components of the elongator complex in the insulin pathway using a Drosophila model for type II diabetes. With Dr. Herberg, we investigate the function and the regulation of the Drosophila Microtubule-associated Serine/Threonine (MAST) Kinase in vivo and in vitro.

Multiscale Clocks

Multiscale Clocks represents an interdisciplinary graduate school that combines the expertise and methodologies of biologists, chemists, engineers, mathematicians and physicists to investigate the structure and organization of biological oscillations and time. Within the frame of Multiscale Clocks we investigate subcellular oscillations of the cytoskeleton and membrane trafficking and their link to the cell cycle oscillator in the syncytial embryo stage of Drosophila melanogaster.

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CINSaT

The Centre for interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT) at the University of Kassel hosts groups from engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and material sciences to fabricate, analyze, visualize, construct and design nanomaterials and structures. Within CINSaT, Prof. Müller is the speaker of the Focal Point ‘Multiscale Bioimaging’ and supports initiatives to develop methods and applications for visualizing and manipulating biological matter. In the Developmental Biology group, we have developed new methods to support the spatial shaping of laser beams and developed a novel type of light sheet microscopy for high resolution 3D imaging. Furthermore, we interact with the group of Dr. Baumert in the Physics institute on the application of femto-second laser pulses in the characterization of the Myosin II network in early Drosophila embryos.