Oct 03, 2022
Programme Start
In the spring of 2021, the Senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG) established the Priority Programme "Emergent Functions of Bacterial Multicellularity" (SPP 2389). The programme is scheduled to run for six years and will begin with the first funding period in late summer (Oct) 2022.
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Project Title |
Principal Investigators |
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| Altruistic suicide in multicellular clusters of bacteria: causes and consequences |
Prof Dr Alexander Grünberger Prof Dr Christian Kost |
| Antibiotic tolerance of biofilms emerging from multicellular effects of antibiotic efflux |
Prof Dr Frank Schreiber |
| Ca2+ signalling in Cyanobacteria multicellularity: unravelling the network of the Ca2+ sensor CSE | Dr Khaled Selim |
| Cannibalism in Bacillus subtilis colonies: role of programmed cell death in shaping and functionalizing differentiated multicellular populations |
Prof Dr Klaus Dreisewerd |
| Causes and consequences of multicellularity in Streptomyces |
Prof Dr Natalia Tschowri |
| Collective membrane potential dynamics in bacterial colonies | Prof Dr Berenike Maier |
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Cooperative pathogenicity of enteropathogenic E. coli (EPC) within mucosa-attached microcolonies |
Dr Aline Dupont |
| Form-function relationships in fruiting body formation of Bacillus subtilis |
Prof Dr Ilka Bischofs |
| Function of small basic protein (Sbp) in Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm matrix: molecular mechanisms and Spatio-temporal patterning | Prof Dr Holger Rohde |
| How do biofilms heal their wounds? |
Prof Dr Liraz Chai |
| Large-scale extracellular matrix architecture and tissue-like morphogenesis as emerging properties of bacterial multicellularity | Prof Dr Regine Hengge |
| Early determinants of heterocyst differentiation in multicellular Cyanobacteria |
Prof Dr Rolf Backofen |
| Mechanisms underlying emergence of antibiotic tolerance of Vibrio cholerae biofilms |
Prof Dr Kai Papenfort |
| Non-Hereditary, contact-dependent molecular exchange as a prerequisite for bacterial multicellularity |
Prof Dr Sigal Ben-Yehuda |
| Quantifying the link between architectural integrity and adaptative potential in development biofilms | Prof Dr Oskar Hallatschek |
| Resolving bacterial collectives on the single-cell level with flow cytometry, cell sorting, and multi-omics data science Z project |
Prof Dr Susann Müller |
| Single-cell RNA sequencing of multicellular communities | Prof Dr Susann Häusler |
| The impact of streptokinase on biofilm heterogeneity of group G streptococci |
Prof Dr Michael Lalk |