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Our major research interests are to understand the interplay between immunity, metabolism and neuronal control. A special focus is on the generation and use of meaningful animal models for human diseases such as asthma, Crohn’s disease, obesity or Parkinson. We focus on two invertebrate models, the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans for these studies. They allow us to combine sophisticated methods, including the generation and use of new types of transgenic animals for targeted manipulation as well as using and developing organ-specific analytical tools (e.g. transcriptomics).
The group provides an international and stimulating environment and welcomes applications from those interested in our work.
Work in our group is funded by the DFG (SFB TR22 - Entzündliche Erkrankungen der Lunge), the Cluster of Excellence „Inflammation at Interfaces“, the BMB+F (Project Vision Epifood), the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), and the International Max-Planck Research School on Evolutionary Biology (IMPRS).