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Professor Dr. Sebastian Hess

Address Technische Universität Darmstadt
Fachbereich Biologie
Arbeitsgruppe Biology of Algae and Protozoa
Schnittspahnstraße 3
64287 Darmstadt

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Activity, regulation and evolution of carbohydrate-active enzymes used in cell wall penetration by unicellular predators and parasitoids of microalgae (Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups)
  - Functional traits and ecological preferences of soil dwelling vampyrellid amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria) in a management intensity gradient (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - The role of CodeChi and chitin-associated proteins in the cell-cell interactions of free-living protists (Priority Programmes)
  - Tree defence, epiphylls and herbivorous insects (Research Units)
- Completed projects
  - Molecular mechanisms during food acquisition and gliding locomotion in viridiraptorid amoeboflagellates - a transcriptomic study of Orciraptor agilis (Cercozoa, Rhizaria) (Research Fellowships)
  - Exploring the hidden diversity of widespread predatory amoebae of the order Vampyrellida (Rhizaria) (Priority Programmes)
As Ehemaliger Antragsteller
- Completed projects
  - Exploring cellular changes during the production of an extracellular sunscreen pigment found in terrestrial green algae (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta) (Research Grants) to 5/2024

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