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Professor Dr. Dirk Schüler

Address Universität Bayreuth
Fachgruppe Biologie
Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie
Universitätsstraße 30
95447 Bayreuth

ORCID-ID 0000-0002-2327-0762

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - MagMorphogens: Identification and functional analysis of shape-controlling determinants in bacterial magnetite biomineralization (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Magnetosomen - ihre Herstellung, Charakterisierung und biomedizinische Anwendung (Priority Programmes)
  - Funktion Eisen-transportierender CDF-Proteine in magnetotaktischen Bakterien und E. coli (Research Grants)
  - Biomineralization (Research Grants)
  - An integrated approach for ecological, cultivational, ultrastructural, and genomic analysis of the uncultivated giant magnetotactic rod cand. "Magnetobacterium bavaricum" (Research Grants)
  - Role of the magnetosome proteins MamGFDC in biomineralization and size control of magnetite crystals in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense (Research Grants)
  - Regulation of iron metabolism and magnetite formation in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense (Research Grants)
  - Self-assembly of hierarchical magnetic nano- to microstructures: biogenic and biomimetic synthesis of magnetite chains (Priority Programmes)
  - Molecular mechanism of magneto-aerotaxis in bacteria (Research Grants)
  - Bacterial magnetosomes: Molecular modelling of magnetite biomineralization and generation of nano-magnetic hybrid materials (Priority Programmes)
  - Unravelling the cytoskeletal network that governs mobility and positioning of magnetic organelles in bacteria: novel players and functions. (Research Grants)
  - Ancestral sequence reconstruction and functional expression of proteins involved in bacterial magnetosome biogenesis (Research Grants)
As Leader
- Completed projects
  - Superresolution-Fluoreszenzmikroskop (Major Research Instrumentation)
As Participating Researcher
- Current projects
  - EXC 3051: NaviSense: International Cluster of Excellence for the Sensory Basis, Mechanisms, and Impacts of Animal Navigation (Clusters of Excellence (ExStra))
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Genome-sequencing of the obligate symbiotic, Mycoplasma-related endobacteria of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to uncover their function and coevolution. (Research Grants)
As Co-Investigator
- Current projects
  - Microevolutionary adaptations of magnetotactic bacteria to reversals of the geomagnetic field (Priority Programmes)

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