# Research groups
**Source**: https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups
**Parent**: https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/teaching-at-cos-heidelberg/phd-studies?overlay=menu
The Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg provides a vibrant research environment for more than 250 scientists organized in 25 departments and research groups. Our work centers around organismal biology and spans all biological kingdoms, imploying a rich spectrum of methods and approaches from all life science disciplines.
- [Departments](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/departments)
- [Independent research groups](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/research-groups)
- [Project leaders](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/group-and-project-heads)
- [Former research groups](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/former-research-groups)
- [Senior and retired professors](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/retired-professors)
- [Kontakte
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- [Anfahrt & Lageplan
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- [Forschung
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- [Publikationen
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## Links
[Cell Signalling
### Prof. Sergio Acebrón](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/cell-signalling)
Sergio Acebrón
### Cell signalling
Our research focuses on how somatic and stem cells integrate extracellular signals to modulate their fate. The architecture, homeostasis and function ...
## Links
[Animal Evolution
### Prof. Detlev Arendt](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/animal-evolution)
Detlev Arendt
### Animal evolution
We are intrigued by one of the great remaining mysteries in animal evolution: how did our central nervous system (CNS) come into existence? What did i...
## Links
[Stem Cell Niche Heterogeneity
### Dr. Josephine Bageritz](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/stem-cell-niche-heterogeneity)
Josephine Bageritz
### Stem Cell Niche Heterogeneity
Our research focuses on the heterogeneity of stem cell niches. Specifically, we want to understand how differences in muscle stem cells within one tis...
## Links
[Clonal analysis of post-embryonic stem cells
### Prof. Lazaro Centanin](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/clonal-analysis-of-post-embryonic-stem-cells)
Lazaro Centanin
### Clonal Analysis of post-embryonic Stem Cells
My lab is interested in understanding stem cells, a fascinating type of cell that can self-renew and is responsible to generate once and again the ce...
## Links
[Evolutionary Cell Biology
### Prof. Yasin Dagdas](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/evolutionary-cell-biology)
Yasin Dagdas
### Evolutionary Cell Biology
Our long-term objective is to unravel the molecular mechanisms of cellular quality control that enable eukaryotic organisms to survive and thrive acro...
## Links
[Chronobiologie
### Prof. Nick Foulkes](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/circadian-clock-biology)
Nicholas Foulkes
### Circadian Clock Biology
Using fish as a model system to study the vertebrate circadian clock.
## Links
[Light Signaling and Cell Biology
### Dr. Kasper van Gelderen](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/light-signaling-and-cell-biology)
Dr. Kasper van Gelderen
### Light Signaling and Cell Biology
We investigate cell-biological aspects of plant light signaling; How photoreceptor complexes are organized in the nucleus and how the plant shoot can ...
## Links
[Developmental Physiology
### Prof. Thomas Greb](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/developmental-physiology)
Thomas Greb
### Developmental Physiology
Radial growth of plant shoots and roots is essential for the formation of wood and of large plant bodies, and thus for the creation of biomass on eart...
## Links
[Plant Molecular Biology
### Prof. Rüdiger Hell](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/molecular-biology-of-plants)
Rüdiger Hell
### Plant Molecular Biology
The Department of Molecular Biology of Plants investigates the mechanisms of metabolic homeostasis in plants that controls growth in relation to devel...
## Links
[Evolutionary Neurobiology
### Prof. Gáspár Jékely](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/gaspar-jekely)
Gáspár Jékely
### Evolutionary Neurobiology
We reconstruct and study whole-body neural circuits in marine invertebrate larvae to understand the control of movements and the evolution of nervous ...
## Links
[Biodiversity and Plant systematics
### Prof. Marcus Koch](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/biodiversity-and-plant-systematics)
Marcus Koch
### Biodiversity and Plant Systematics
Evolutionary and biodiversity research in our department is focusing on levels of biological variation varying from molecules to landscapes with a foc...
## Links
[Developmental Biology
### Prof. Ingrid Lohmann](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/developmental-biology)
Ingrid Lohmann
### Developmental Biology
Current research in my lab is based on an integrated approach of advanced genomic, genetic, molecular, and biochemical methods together with extensiv...
## Links
[Stem Cell Biology
### Prof. Jan Lohmann](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/stammzellbiologie)
Jan Lohmann
### Stem Cell Biology
The Stem Cell Biology department focuses on the mechanisms that regulate the identity, number and division activity of plant stem cells. We pursue an ...
## Links
[Cell and developmental biology
### Prof. Alexis Maizel](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/cell-and-developmental-biology)
Alexis Maizel
### Cell and Developmental biology
How does the genetic information encoded in the DNA reliably lead to a specific organismal shape? The laboratory is interested in understanding morpho...
## Links
[Zytoskelett, Zellteilung und Signaltransduktion
### Prof. Gislene Pereira](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/cytoskeleton-cell-division-and-signalling)
Gislene Pereira
### Cytoskeleton, Cell Division and Signalling
Accurate chromosome segregation depends upon the precise coordination of mitotic events and on safeguard mechanisms, such as the spindle assembly and ...
## Links
[Developmental Genomics
### Juniorprof. Lauren Saunders](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/agsaunders)
Lauren Saunders
### Developmental Genomics
Our group is interested in understanding the interplay between a cell's developmental history, function, and its flexibility to change. We are working...
## Links
[Zellbiologie
### Prof. Karin Schumacher](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/cell-biology)
Karin Schumacher
### Cell Biology
Due to their sessile lifestyle, plants need to efficiently adapt their metabolic and developmental program to changing and often unfavourable environm...
## Links
[Physiology and Symbiosis
### Prof. Gilles Storelli](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/physiology-and-symbiosis)
Gilles Storelli
### Physiology and Symbiosis
We use genetically tractable symbiotic systems to understand how gut bacteria influence animal physiology and metabolism.
## Links
[Glykobiologie
### Prof. Sabine Strahl](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/glycobiology)
Sabine Strahl
### Glycobiology
Glycosylation is one of the most abundant and complex protein modifications known. In many biological systems more than half of all proteins are glyco...
## Links
[Biological Data Science
### Juniorprof. Britta Velten](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/biological-data-science)
Britta Velten
### Biological Data Science
Our group works at the interface of data science, machine learning and the life sciences with the aim to develop the computational tools and statistic...
## Links
[Developmental Biology/Physiology
### Prof. Jochen Wittbrodt](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/JochenWittbrodt)
Jochen Wittbrodt
### Developmental Biology/Physiology
Jochen Wittbrodt is a Principal Investigator in the Excellence Cluster 3D Matter Made to Order and a member of the Graduate School HBIGS. Our work is ...
## Former research groups
- [Universität Hohenheim
### Prof. Steffen Lemke](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/morphogenesis-and-the-evolution-of-form)
- [Universität Bern
### Prof. Michael Raissig](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/former-research-groups/prof-michael-raissig)
- [### All former research groups](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/former-research-groups)
- [Plant Molecular Physiology
### Thomas Rausch](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/node/3/research-groups/plant-molecular-physiology)
- [Developmental Neurobiology
### Elisabeth G. Pollerberg](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/senior-and-retired-professors/developmental-neurobiology)
- [### Senior and retired professors](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/retired-professors)
## Links
[Building
### Im Neuenheimer Feld 230](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/centre-for-organismal-studies-heidelberg/im-neuenheimer-feld-230)
[Building
### Im Neuenheimer Feld 360](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/im-neuenheimer-feld-360)
- [### Maps and directions](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/centre-for-organismal-studies-heidelberg/maps-and-directions)
- [### Contacts](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/centre-for-organismal-studies-heidelberg/contact)
- [### Scientific Events at COS](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/centre-for-organismal-studies-heidelberg/scientific-events-at-cos)
[Deutsch](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/de/forschungsgruppen)[Central Contact information](https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups?overlay=contact)