Participating Labs



The following labs participate in the International Summer School in Life Sciences. Below you will find links
to the respective lab websites with a more detailed description of their scientific interests.

Biophysics
Alipahsa Vaziri - Super-resolution Imaging: Looking at the interaction of individual proteins
Bojan Zagrovic - Computational biophysics of protein-RNA interactions

Cell Biology
Fumiyo Ikeda - Programming the cell death by ubiquitin chains
Juergen Knoblich - Neural stem cell biology and tumor formation in the Drosophila brain
Claudine Kraft - Function and Regulation of the Atg1 kinase in autophagy
Thomas Marlovits - Reprogramming of the type-3 secretion system?
Jan Michael Peters - Molecular analysis of chromosome segregation proteins in human and mouse cells
Christian Seiser - Epigenetic control of proliferation and differentiation
Kikue Tachibana-Konwalski - How to make a totipotent cell
Stefan Westermann - Molecular analysis of kinetochore function

Disease and Development
Claudia Jonak - Title to be announced
Egon Ogris - Generation and characterization of antibodies specific for disease- associated lamin A/C point-mutants
Josef Penninger - Functional Genomics in stem cells
Christina Waldsich - The impact of disease-associated mutations on the human telomerase RNA structure
Johannes Zuber - Modeling targeted cancer therapies using in-vivo RNAi

Gene Regulation
Julius Brennecke - Genetic and molecular dissection of the piRNA pathway in the Drosophila germline
Wolfgang Busch - Regulatory Circuits in Root Development
Javier Martinez - RNA processing in human cells
Alexander Stark - Regulatory genomics: dissecting regulatory DNA sequences

Neurobiology
Barry Dickson - Genetic analysis of the neural circuits that control female mating in Drosophila
Wulf Haubensak - Fear and reward in emotion circuits
David Keays - New genes that cause neurodevelopmental disease
Andrew Straw - Circuitry of visual perception in flies
Manuel Zimmer - Neural Circuit Regulation of Behavior in C. elegans