Department Participation in Research & Education networks

The Department of Biology is involved in the following research & education networks:

Interdisciplinary Research Centers

• Center for Biophysics and Bioinformatics (BPI)
• Center for Biology of Infection and Immunity (ZIBI)

Collaborative Research Networks, founded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

• Bernstein Center of Computational Neuroscience (BCCN)

Cluster of Excellence

• Unifying Concepts in Catalysis

Priority Programs ("Schwerpunktprogramme")

• DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1175: Dynamics of cellular membranes and their exploitation by viruses

Special Research Programs ("Sonderforschungsbereiche")

• SFB 429 Molecular Physiology, Energetics, and Regulation of Primary Metabolism in Plants
• SFB 515 Mechanisms of Developmental and Experience-Dependent Neural Plasticity
• SFB 555 Complex Non-Linear Processes
• SFB 618 Theoretical Biology: Robustness, Modularity and Evolutionary Design of Living Systems
• SFB 740: From Molecules to Modules: Organisation and Dynamics of Functional Units in Cells
• SFB 765: Multivalenz als chemisches Organisations- und Wirkprinzip: Neue Architekturen, Funktionen und Anwendungen

Research Projects founded by European Union

• EU Marie Curie International Training Network: Virus Entry

Combined Master / PhD Programs

• International Graduate Program Computational Neuroscience

PhD Programs

• International PhD Program Molecular Cell Biology

Graduate Programs

• Gk 503: Evolutionary Transformations and Faunal Patterns
• Gk 780: Perspectives on Urban Ecology - the Example of the European Metropolis of Berlin
• Gk 1121: Perspectives on Urban Ecology - the Example of the European Metropolis of Berlin
• Leibniz Graduate School on Molecular Biophysics