The CRC 973 ties together research expertise and supports currently active collaborations of the following groups located in the southwest of Berlin and Potsdam, Germany. Several working groups of the Institute of Biology, FU Berlin, working groups at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biology of the University of Potsdam, and two groups of the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm. All participating institutions have access to the basic analytical set-ups necessary for the molecular, genetic, biochemical, physiological and ecological studies planned. The members of our team are working in different biological fields that are linked by our CRC topic.

Freie Universität Berlin:

• Applied Zoology / Animal Ecology (Head: Prof. Dr. Monika Hilker)
• Plant Ecology (Head: Prof. Dr. Matthias Rillig)
• Molecular Ecology (Head: Jun. Prof. Dr. Anke Steppuhn)
• Biodiversity Research Group (Head: Jun. Prof. Dr. Britta Tietjen)
• Applied Genetics (Head: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Kunze)
• Applied Genetics (Head: Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmülling)
• Plant Physiology (Head: Prof. Dr. Margarete Baier)
• Evolutionary Biology (Head: Prof. Dr. Jens Rolff)
• Epigenetics of Plants (Head: Prof. Dr. Daniel Schubert)
• Microbiology (Head: Prof. Dr. Haike Antelmann)

University Potsdam:

• Molecular Biology (Head: Prof. Dr. Bernd Müller-Röber)
• Molecular Biology (Head: Dr. Salma Balazadeh)
• Plant Epigenetics (Head: Prof. Dr. Isabel Bäurle)
• Plant Metabolism (Head: Prof. Dr. Frederik Börnke)

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology:

• Transcript Profiling (Head: PD Dr. Dirk Hincha)
• Bioinformatics (Head: Dr. habil. Dirk Walther)

Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry

• Plant Biochemistry (Head: Prof. Dr. Tina Romeis)