Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1326: Calcium-Signalling and Cellular Nanodomains
Subject Area
Medicine
Term
from 2006 to 2015
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 13307018
The aim of the Research Training Group is the education of highly-qualified PhD students with excellent job opportunities in research areas like calcium-regulated signal transduction. Central to this programme are functional analyses of calcium-transporting protein structures and intracellular membrane transport as well as calcium-regulated processes in the context of intra- and intercellular communication. In this way, the programme focusses on one of the most attractive research fields in the life sciences. The challenge is to monitor these signal processes with high temporal and spatial resolution. The scientific focus of the research initiative is addressed by a combination of different methodological approaches including imaging techniques, electrophysiological and biochemical methods, as well as trans gene technology and viral gene transfer. It is this interdisciplinary character that sets the stage for an internationally competitive research programme in order to provide new insights into the mechanisms of calcium-dependent signalling.
The Research Training Group is accompanied by a demanding and performance-oriented curriculum dedicated to the improvement and advancement of graduate education. Approximately 40 scholars and researchers taught, advised and mentored graduate students to offer, on one hand, maximal assistance and to select, on the other hand, highly-motivated candidates by means of a performance-oriented qualification period. The qualification period was mandatory and intended to provide students with a sound theoretical background as well as with a survey over various methodological approaches and organisational structures established in the Research Training Group. It is expected, that these efforts facilitate the start of the candidate's research activities and shorten the duration of the doctoral programme. As a consequence, the Research Training Group will strengthen the student's scientific education and set the stage for building a network of research activities to ensure systematic and career-oriented support of excellent young scientists.
The Research Training Group is accompanied by a demanding and performance-oriented curriculum dedicated to the improvement and advancement of graduate education. Approximately 40 scholars and researchers taught, advised and mentored graduate students to offer, on one hand, maximal assistance and to select, on the other hand, highly-motivated candidates by means of a performance-oriented qualification period. The qualification period was mandatory and intended to provide students with a sound theoretical background as well as with a survey over various methodological approaches and organisational structures established in the Research Training Group. It is expected, that these efforts facilitate the start of the candidate's research activities and shorten the duration of the doctoral programme. As a consequence, the Research Training Group will strengthen the student's scientific education and set the stage for building a network of research activities to ensure systematic and career-oriented support of excellent young scientists.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Universität des Saarlandes
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Dieter Bruns
Participating Researchers
Privatdozentin Dr. Ute Becherer, Ph.D.; Dr. Andreas Beck; Professor Dr. Adolfo Cavalié; Professor Dr. Veit Flockerzi; Professor Dr. Markus Hoth; Professor Dr. Lars Kaestner; Professor Dr. Roy Lancaster; Professor Dr. Peter Lipp, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Ralf Mohrmann; Professorin Dr. Barbara Anne Niemeyer, Ph.D.; Privatdozent Dr. Stephan E. Philipp; Professor Dr. Jens Rettig; Professor Dr. Gabriel Schlenstedt; Professor Dr. Frank Schmitz; Dr. Eva Schwarz; Dr. Karin Schwarz; Dr. Petra Weißgerber; Professor Dr. Richard Zimmermann; Professor Dr. Frank Zufall
