Dr. Nikolai Raffler Programme Director

Life Sciences 1: Molecular and Organismic Biology
E-mail: Nikolai.Raffler@dfg.de Telephone: +49 (228) 885-2441 Telefax: +49 (228) 885-713320

Kennedyallee 40
53175 Bonn

Tasks

General Responsibilities
Knowledge Transfer
Synthetic Biology

Scientific Areas of Responsibility

Main Contact
2.11-01 Biochemistry
2.11-07 Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology
Deputy Contact
2.11-02 Biophysics
2.11-04 Structural Biology

Coordinated Programmes (scientific matters)

Exzellenzcluster
2068 Physics of Life: The Dynamic Organization of Living Matter (PoL)
3092 Biosystems Design Munich (BioSysteM)
3094 SCALE – SubCellular Architecture of LifE
Forschungsimpulse
26 CytoTransport - Mechanisms and Modulation of Cellular Transport processes
Graduiertenkolleg
2202 Transport across and into membranes
2424 Computational Methods for Oncology: Towards Personalized Therapies in Cancer
2467 Intrinsically Disordered Proteins – Molecular Principles, Cellular Functions, and Diseases
2550 Dynamic regulation of cellular protein localization
2566 Interfacing image analysis and molecular life-science (Imol)
2606 Understanding protease functions in cellular pathways through discovery and analysis of protease substrates (ProtPath)
3120 Biomolecular Condensates: From Physics to Biological Functions
3142 The Biological Making of Materials
SFB/Transregio
186 Molecular Switches: Spatio-temporal Control of Cellular Signal Transmission
319 RMaP: RNA Modification and Processing
Sonderforschungsbereich
1309 Chemical Biology of Epigenetic Modifications
1381 Dynamic organization of cellular protein machineries: From biogenesis and modular assembly to function
1423 Structural Dynamics of GPCR Activation and Signaling
1507 Membrane-associated Protein Assemblies, Machineries, and Supercomplexes
1551 Polymer Concepts in Cellular Function
1557 Functional Plasticity encoded by Cellular Membrane Networks
1638 Cellular membrane remodelling – how changing form creates function
1756 Chemical and Biological Principles of Cellular Trigger Responses

Coordinated Programmes (procedural matters)

Forschungsgruppe
5762 Cell Non-Autonomous Regulation of Organismal Proteostasis
5872 Chaperone-mediated regulation of the emergence of disease-causing amyloids inside biomolecular condensates
Schwerpunktprogramm
1927 Iron-Sulfur for Life
2191 Molecular Mechanisms of Functional Phase Separation
2416 CodeChi - Chitin, chitosan and chito-oligosaccharides and their interaction with proteins of the extracellular matrix and cellular signaling
2453 Integration of mitochondria into the cellular proteostasis network