Principal Investigators

Prof. Dr. Andreas Beilhack

Project A3

Faculty of Medicine, Center for Experimental Molecular Medicine, Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation and Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF)  

Julius Maximilians University Würzburg

beilhack_a@medizin.uni-wuerzburg.de

Prof. Dr. Axel Brakhage

Project A1 / Project A6 / Project Z1

Institute of Microbiology
Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology HKI
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knöll-Institute  

axel.brakhage@uni-jena.de

Prof. Dr. Thomas Dandekar

Project B1 / Project B2

Biocenter, Department of Bioinformatics and Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF)  

Julius Maximilians University Würzburg

dandekar@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

Dr. Dr. Marcus Dittrich

Project B2

Biocenter, Department of Bioinformatics and Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF)  

Julius Maximilians University Würzburg

marcus.dittrich@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

Prof. Dr. Hermann Einsele

Project A2 / Project A8

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine II and Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF)  

Julius Maximilians University Würzburg

einsele_h@ukw.de

Prof. Dr. Marc Thilo Figge

Project B4

Department of Applied Systems Biology
Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Research Group Applied Systems Biology
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knöll-Institute  

thilo.figge@leibniz-hki.de

Dr. Mark Gresnigt

Project C1

Adaptive Pathogenicity Strategies

Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute

mark.gresnigt@leibniz-hki.de

Prof. Dr. Katrin G. Heinze

Project A3

Research Group Biophotonics

Rudolf Virchow Center & Bio-Imaging Center  

Julius Maximilians University Würzburg

katrin.heinze@virchow.uni-wuerzburg.de

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hube

Project C1 / Project C2

Department of Microbial Pathogenicity
Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Department Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knöll-Institute  

bernhard.hube@leibniz-hki.de

Prof. Dr. Michael Hudecek

Project A8

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine II and Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF)  

Julius Maximilians University Würzburg

hudeceklab@ukw.de

Prof. Dr. Ilse D. Jacobsen

Project C5

Department of Microbial Immunology
Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Research Group Microbial Immunology
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knöll-Institute  

ilse.jacobsen@leibniz-hki.de

Prof. Dr. Berit Jungnickel

Project C5

Center for Molecular Biomedicine

Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Friedrich Schiller University Jena

berit.jungnickel@uni-jena.de

Dr. Olaf Kniemeyer

Project Z2

Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology

Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute  

olaf.kniemeyer@leibniz-hki.de

Prof. Dr. Oliver Kurzai

Project C3

Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology

Julius Maximilians University Würzburg

okurzai@hygiene.uni-wuerzburg.de

Prof. Marie Lilienfeld-Toal

Project A1

Institute for Diversity Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Ruhr University Bochum

Marie.VonLilienfeld-Toal@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Löffler

Project A2

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine II and Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF)  

Julius Maximilians University Würzburg

loeffler_j@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de

Prof. Dr. Joachim Morschhäuser

Project C2

Institute for Molecular Infection Biology and Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF)  

Julius Maximilians University Würzburg

joachim.morschhaeuser@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de

Prof. Dr. Gianni Panagiotou

Project INF

Department of Microbiome Dynamics
Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Research Group Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knöll-Institute  

gianni.panagiotou@leibniz-hki.de

Prof. Dr. Stefan Schuster

Project B1

Department of Bioinformatics

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

stefan.schu@uni-jena.de

Prof. Dr. Hortense Slevogt

Project A5

Center for Innovation Competence (ZIK) Septomics  
Research group Fungal Septomics 

University Hospital Jena

hortense.slevogt@med.uni-jena.de

Dr. Ulrich Terpitz

Project A2

Biocenter, Department of Biotechnology and Biophysics 

Julius Maximilians University Würzburg

ulrich.terpitz@uni-wuerzburg.de

Dr. Martin Vaeth

Project C7

Institute of Systems Immunology

Julius Maximilians University Würzburg

martin.vaeth1@uni-wuerzburg.de

PD Dr. Kerstin Voigt

Project A6

Jena Microbial Resource Collection (JMRC)

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology
Friedrich Schiller University Jena

kerstin.voigt@leibniz-hki.de

Prof. Dr. Ferdinand von Eggeling

Project Z2

Jena University Hospital, ENT Department

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

ferdinand.von_eggeling@med.uni-jena.de

Prof. Dr. Oliver Werz

Project A7

Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

oliver.werz@uni-jena.de

Prof. Dr. Christina Zielinski

Project C7

Department of Infection Immunology

Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knöll-Institute  

christina.zielinski@leibniz-hki.de