Research projects of current students
- Susan Schlimpert
- Start date: October 2007
- Nationality: German
- Diplome thesis: “Expression of essential genes under inducible control in Acinetobacter”. (2005) Yale University, New Haven, USA & TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany
- Research group:
AG Thanbichler, Independent Junior Research Group, MPI
- Research project description
I am interested in prokaryotic cell biology and, in particular, in the cell division machinery of the alpha-proteobacterium Caulobacter crescentus. New bacterial cell division proteins are constantly being reported in the literature, indicating that the prokaryotic cell division apparatus is by far more complex than anticipated previously. The number of unknown cell division proteins is not exhausted yet, and the characterization of new cell division proteins is driven by the desire to identify the differences in cell division established during the course of evolution.
I am using a combination of molecular biology, biochemistry and fluorescence microscopy to characterize a novel component of the C. crescentus cell division apparatus.
