International Projects

The Max Planck Institute of Biophysics receives funds from internationally renowned funding agencies, including the European Research Council (ERC).

EU Projects

European Research Council (ERC) Grants

Complex Assembly – The birth of protein complexes

Link to Cordis database. Principal Investigator: Martin Beck, Molecular Sociology
Duration: 1.2.2018 – 31.1.2023

Publications:
Mosalaganti S, Kosinski J, Albert S, Schaffer M, Strenkert D, Salomé PA, Merchant SS, Plitzko JM, Baumeister W, Engel BD, Beck M. (2018). In situ architecture of the algal nuclear pore complex. Nat Commun 9(1) doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04739-y Becher I, Andrés-Pons A, Romanov N, Stein F, Schramm M, Baudin F, Helm D, Kurzawa N, Mateus A, Mackmull MT, Typas A, Müller CW, Bork P, Beck M, Savitski MM. (2018). Pervasive Protein Thermal Stability Variation during the Cell Cycle. Cell 173(6) doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.053

Other International Research Grants

Chan Zuckerberg Foundation DAF: Visual proteomics becomes dynamic

Investigators: Martin Beck, Gerhard Hummer, Beata Turoňová

Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's
Research: Mechanisms of mitochondrial damage control by PINK1 and Parkin

Investigator: Gerhard Hummer in cooperation with Dr. James Hurley, University of California Berkeley

International Cooperations

Bi- and multinational collaborations include:

Centre Hospitalier National d'Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts, Paris, France
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
European Molecular Biology Laboratory - EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
ESRF, Grenoble, France
Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
National Institute of Food and Drug Control, Beijing, P.R. China
Rutherford Appelton Laboratory, Harwell, UK
Swiss Light Source SLS Villigen, Switzerland
CNRS, Montpellier, France
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Collaborations with international universities:

Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
Imperial College, London, UK
Institute of Oceanography, Qingdao, P.R. China
ITQB, Lisboa, Portugal
King’s College London, London, UK
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Nagoya University, Japan
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Sichuan University, Chengdu, P.R. China
Tianjin University, Tianjin, P.R. China
University of Bristol, UK
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
University of Exeter, UK
University of Florence, Florence, Italy
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Université de Paris-Sud, Paris, France
Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
University Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
University of Tokyo, Japan
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
University of Zurich, Switzerland