Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
The MPI for Infection Biology
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Max Planck Society
Legal form of the carrier: Registered association
Seat of the wearer: Munich
Facility location: Berlin-Mitte
( Charité Campus Mitte)
Branch office: Berlin-Marienfelde
Type of research: Basic research
Subjects: Natural sciences
Areas of expertise: Infection Biology , immunology , molecular biology , cell biology , human biology
Basic funding: Federal government (50%), states (50%)
Management: Arturo Zychlinsky (Managing Director)
Employee: about 170
Homepage: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB) is a non-university research facility of the Max Planck Society in Berlin-Mitte and was founded in 1993. Arturo Zychlinsky is currently the managing director. The MPIIB is divided into six internal research groups, two partner groups and an emeritus group of the founding director Stefan HE Kaufmann . The "Regulation in Infection Biology" department headed by Emmanuelle Charpentier was spun off as an independent research center in May 2018. The Max Plack Research Center for the Science of Pathogens is now administratively independent of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. In October 2019 the research group leaders Igor Iatsenko and Matthieu Domenech de Cellès started their work at the institute; The tuberculosis researcher Mark Cronan has been a research group leader at the institute since March 2020.

Research groups

  • The Molecular Biology Department is headed by Thomas F. Meyer and deals with the pathogenesis of Chlamydia , Helicobacter and Neisseria infections. Particular attention is paid to the molecular mechanisms of the interaction of the named pathogens with their host cells and host cell responses. The functional genomics of the host cell by means of RNA interference takes up special space.
  • The Cellular Microbiology Department is headed by Arturo Zychlinsky . The group's research focus is on a possible immune function of eukaryotic chromatin . The main topics are the " Neutrophil Extracellular Traps " (NETs) discovered by the research group and the research into the role of histones in the immune system.
  • The vector biology research group is headed by Elena Levashina. She is researching the role the mosquito immune system plays in regulating the development of malaria parasites.
  • Marcus Taylor is head of the group "Visualization of Immunological Signaling Pathways". His group tries to decipher cellular information transfer in the context of infections and immune responses.
  • Igor Iatsenko heads the group, "Genetics of Host-Microbe Interactions" and researches the host-pathogen relationships in the fruit fly Drosophila . His focus is on the mechanisms by which pathogenic microorganisms trigger diseases and how disorders of "useful" microbes influence the health of the fly.
  • Matthieu Domenech de Cellès is head of the "Infectious Disease Epidemiology" group. The working group investigates the population biology of infectious diseases in order to understand how individual infection mechanisms develop a dynamic at population level.
  • Mark Cronan heads the research group " In vivo cell biology of infections". The group is researching how granulomas develop in the context of a tuberculosis infection and how host-directed therapies can be used to protect host organisms against infections.
  • Stefan HE Kaufmann's emeritus group is dedicated to various aspects of the infection and immunology of tuberculosis as well as to rational vaccine research.

International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)

The institute is at the International Max Planck Research School for Infectious Diseases and Immunology participated in Berlin. The IMPRS is an English-language doctoral program in which the FU Berlin , the Humboldt University Berlin , the Robert Koch Institute , the German Rheumatism Research Center and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research are also involved. Together with five other graduate schools, the IMPRS forms the "ZIBI Graduate School Berlin". The aim of the IMPRS is "a better understanding of host-pathogen interactions at all levels". Arturo Zychlinsky is the spokesman for the IMPRS.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/1840095/arturo-zychlinsky
  2. ↑ http://www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/institut/geschichte
  3. ↑ https://www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/kontakt/mitarbeiter/13167
  4. ↑ Imprint. In: Emmanuelle Charpentier Lab. Retrieved January 16, 2019 (American English).
  5. ↑ Visualization of Immune Signaling. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .
  6. ^ Genetics of Host-Microbe Interactions. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .
  7. ^ Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .
  8. ↑ In vivo cell biology of infection. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  9. ↑ see the IMPRS homepage at http://www.zibi-graduateschool-berlin.de/
  10. ↑ Brochure International Max Planck Research Schools - Graduate programs in a first-class research environment, Max Planck Society, July 2012, page 21 (not online)

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 30 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 31.1 ″  E