Dr. Regina Nickel Programme Director

Life Sciences 2: Microbiology, Immunology, Neurosciences
E-mail: Regina.Nickel@dfg.de Telephone: +49 (228) 885-2032 Telefax: +49 (228) 885-713320

Kennedyallee 40
53175 Bonn

Scientific Areas of Responsibility

Main Contact
2.21-01 Metabolism, Biochemistry and Genetics of Microorganisms
2.21-02 Microbial Ecology and Applied Microbiology
Deputy Contact
2.21-03 Medical Microbiology and Mycology, Hygiene, Molecular Infection Biology
2.21-06 Parasitology and Biology of Tropical Infectious Disease Pathogens

Coordinated Programmes (scientific matters)

Exzellenzcluster
2051 Balance of the Microverse
2151 ImmunoSensation3 - the immune sensory system: from Immune Diversity to precision medicine
Graduiertenkolleg
2341 Microbial Substrate Conversion (MiCon)
2937 Nucleotide Metabolism in Microbes
Sonderforschungsbereich
1127 Chemical Mediators in Complex Biosystems (ChemBioSys)
1454 Metaflammation and Cellular Programming
1535 Microbial networking – from organelles to cross-kingdom communities

Coordinated Programmes (procedural matters)

Forschungsgruppe
2406 Proteogenomics of Marine Polysaccharide Utilization (POMPU)
2599 Tissue type 2 responses: Mechanisms of induction and regulation
2816 The Autotrophy-Heterotrophy Switch in Cyanobacteria: Coherent Decision-Making at Multiple Regulatory Layers
5560 Crosstalk between B cell metabolism and signaling
Schwerpunktprogramm
1879 Nucleotide Second Messenger Signaling in Bacteria
2002 Small Proteins in Prokaryotes, an Unexplored World
2141 Much more than defence: the multiple functions and facets of CRISPR-Cas
2330 New concepts in prokaryotic virus-host interactions - from single cells to microbial communities
2389 Emergent Functions of Bacterial Multicellularity