Sigurd Braun — Justus Liebig University Giessen
Chromatin biology & epigenetics (S. pombe, S. cerevisae): We investigate how heterochromatin is established, maintained, and spatially organized, using genetics, genomics, and quantitative approaches.

Valentin Flury — MPI of Immunobiology & Epigenetics Freiburg
Epigenome maintenance across the cell cycle (S. pombe): We investigate how chromatin states are maintained, modulated, and inherited across the several challenges during the cell cycle with a focus on DNA replication. We work with the fission yeast and various cell culture models using functional genomics, proteomics and high-throughput approaches.

Stephan Hamperl — Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells (IES), Helmholtz Munich
Chromosome Dynamics & Genome Stability (S. cerevisae): We study how DNA replication and transcription are coordinated, and how conflicts between these processes threaten genome stability.

Cornelia Kilchert — Justus Liebig University Giessen
RNA biology & nuclear gene regulation (S. pombe): We study the molecular triage that decides whether a nascent transcript is licensed for export, retained at chromatin, or degraded by the nuclear RNA exosome, combining fission yeast genetics, genome- and proteome-wide approaches, and quantitative fluorescence microscopy.

Dejana Mokranjac — LMU Munich
Biogenesis and quality control of mitochondria (S. cerevisae): We aim to uncover the molecular mechanisms of biogenesis and quality control of mitochondria using yeast as a model system and combining it with biochemistry, cell biology and a pinch of structural biology and biophysics.

Felix Müller-Planitz — Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden
Chromatin structure and function (S. cerevisae): We study how nucleosomes are arranged in chromatin and how this organization influences essential processes in the nucleus.

Elisa Oberbeckmann — Universitätsmedizin Göttingen und MPI-NAT, Göttingen
Chromatin dynamics (S. cerevisae): We investigate how nucleosome positioning influences 3D genome organization and transcription, using a unique in vitro reconstitution system based on purified DNA and proteins from S. cerevisiae. This allows us to decipher in a bottom-up manner how gene expression is regulated in S. cerevisiae.

Kurt Schmoller — Helmholtz Munich
Cell and Organelle Size Control (S. cerevisae): We investigate how cells control their size, how cell size governs cell function, and how cells regulate organelle and protein homeostasis during cell growth.

Wolfgang Zachariae – MPI Biochemistry Munich/Martinsried
Laboratory of Chromosome Biology (S. cerevisae): We investigate how the key events of meiosis are ordered into the sequence that results in viable gametes. We use classical genetics, chemical genetics, biochemistry, live-cell imaging, and mathematical modeling.