12 million Euros for Collaborative Research Center 1348
On November 21st, the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced that the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) “Dynamic Cellular Interfaces: Formation and Function” will receive a further four years of funding totaling 12 million Euros.
The research network, coordinated by Prof. Stefan Luschnig from the Institute of Integrative Cell Biology and Physiology (IIZP), can thus continue its successful work on fundamental questions of cell and developmental biology as well as biomedicine. The research team investigates how cells communicate to exchange information, substances, and mechanical signals at the cell surface. These dynamic cellular interfaces control signal processing and development and are therefore of central importance for the orderly architecture of tissues and the normal function of organs. To understand these fundamental processes, the researchers are combining their expertise from various disciplines, including computer modeling, organic chemistry, structural biology, genetics, and molecular cell biology. Twenty-seven scientists from the Faculties of Biology, Chemistry, and Medicine at the University of Münster are involved in the consortium. They are working closely with the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine and a subproject at the Technical University of Dortmund.
