GRK 57:  Molecular Physiology: Metabolism and Energy Transformation

• Subject Area: Basic Research in Biology and Medicine
• Term: from 1997 to 2004
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 269347

This research training group teaches our Ph.D. students several methodical approaches in molecular physiology in order to broaden their usally limited scope of experimental know how. In addition it provides lectures which focus in a comprehensive way on the molecular basis of physiological processes. The students are continuously called to present their ideas and results in front of their colleagues and advisers and thus acquire a good knowledge in communicating and presenting their work. Finally the students are brought up to become scientifically independent while they perform novel research.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
• Participating Institution: Forschungszentrum Jülich
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Manfred K. Grieshaber (†)
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. August-Wilhelm Alfermann; Professor Dr. Michael Bott; Professor Dr. Karl Erich Jaeger; Professor Dr. Wolfgang Kläui (†); Professor Dr. William Martin; Professor Dr. Hermann Sahm; Professor Dr. Heinrich Strotmann; Professor Dr. Hanns Weiss; Professor Dr. Peter Westhoff; Professor Dr. Günter Wulff