Scientific Project Groups

Group leader: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

We use the zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model organism to study pigment pattern formation in a vertebrate. more

Group leader: Oliver Weichenrieder

LINE-1 and Alu RNAs can be regarded as ‘selfish’ RNAs that propagate in their human ‘hosts’ in the form of non-LTR retrotransposons. Non-LTR retrotransposons belong to the simplest forms of selfish RNA. more