Department-independent research groups
Research groups at the MPI-IE are either department-associated or department-independent. Department-independent groups can be established in different ways.
The Max Planck Society provides financial resources for Max Planck Research Groups (MPRG). These "free-floating" positions are centrally advertized by the Max Planck Society. The establishment of new research groups can also be enabled by central resources of the Institute.
Department-associated and department-independent research groups are considered equivalent and have comparable budgets. They pursue — within the framework of the MPI-IE — their research fully independently. Currently, six department-independent research groups are established at the MPI-IE.
Jumana AlHaj Abed | Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid | Ayele Argaw-Denboba |
Valentin Flury | Juliane Glaser | Rudolf Grosschedl | Valérie Hilgers
The Lab aims to understand how maternal and paternal chromosomes communicate in
Drosophila and mammals using genomic approaches and super-resolution imaging.
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The Lab aims to decipher the regulatory role of gut microbiota in gametogenesis, embryogenesis, epigenetic inheritance mechanisms, and identify microbiome-sourced metabolites that regulate chromatin functions.
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The Lab investigates the mechanisms that maintain HSC quiescence. By using a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches, the Lab tries to understand which signaling pathways and extracellular biochemical stimuli keep HSC dormancy.
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The Lab dissects the regulatory mechanisms maintaining chromatin states across the cell cycle.
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The Lab is interested in the epigenetic mechanisms that govern mammalian embryonic development. Our main focus is on transposable elements and how they contribute to developmental phenotypes.
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The overall goal of the Lab is to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the generation of B lymphocytes from hematopoietic stem cells and the regulation of ES cell pluripotency.
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The Lab investigates the molecular mechanisms underlying neuron-specific RNA signatures and aims to understand how RNA processing affects neuronal development and function.
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