Projects

Thiopeptide Signals in Actinomycete Communities

Metallophores as Mediators for Metal Cycling: Profiling and Ecological Evaluation of Ligands Involved in the Microbial Cycling of Iron in Complex Systems

Central Tasks

Chemical Factors Structuring Gut Microbial Communities of Insects

Stimuli-Responsive Microcapsules for Transport, Controlled Delivery and Release of Metal Ions and Organic

Algicidal Bacteria in Plankton Communities: Resistance, Lysis and Heterotrophy

Are Plant Defenses Chemicals Commonly Sequestered and Metabolized by their Herbivores to Function as Infochemicals in Higher Trophic Level Interactions in Nature?

Identification of Secondary Metabolites with Roles in Interactions between Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Other Microorganisms

Metallophores as Mediators for Metal Cycling: Development of Libraries for Metal Ion Buffering and as Redox Carriers as well as Profiling of Metallophores

Identification of Novel Infochemicals and their Biosynthetic Pathways Mediating the Cross Kingdom Communication between Ulva and its Associated Bacteria

Chemical Mediators in the Communication between Monocytes/Macrophages and Cancer Cells, and Modulation by Anti-inflammatory Small Molecules

Photoresponsive Modulation of a Freshwater Phytoplankton Community by Bacterial Lipopeptides

Cryptic Mediators at the Bacterial-Fungal Interface: Mushroom Soft Rot Diseases as Infection Model

Information Infrastructure / Bio- and cheminformatics

Responsible for administration of https://cheminf.uni-jena.de/ - Kohulan Rajan

Mechanisms of Bacteria-triggered Activation of Fungal Silent Gene Clusters and Impact of Produced Compounds on Microorganisms

Raman Based Analysis of Natural Products in Complex Biosystems

Isolation and Characterization of Novel Biomolecules from Fungi Establishing Mutualistic or Pathogenic Interactions with Roots of Arabidopsis and Nicotiana Species

Role of Basidiomycete Small Molecules on Habitat-sharing Microbes

Plant defence detoxification strategies of aboveground and belowground herbivores in a multitrophic context

ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF NOVEL BIOMOLECULES FROM THE MUTUALISTIC FOOD FUNGUS AND ASSOCIATED MICROBES OF FUNGUS-GROWING TERMITES

Training space to learn how to use SEEK

This project aims to gather data and metadata from first funding period projects that have not been continued during the second funding period