Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen (IMIT)

The Interfaculty Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen (IMIT) was founded in 2009, merging the Institute for Microbiology (Faculty of Science) and the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene (Faculty of Medicine). IMIT is the first institute of its kind in Germany and comprises nine full professorships, two emeritus groups, and several junior research groups.

The IMIT consists of the following units:

From the Faculty of Science:

Microbial Genetics, Prof Dr. Friedrich Götz (Emeritus Group)
Microbiology/Biotechnology, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wohlleben (Emeritus Group)
Microbial Bioactive Compounds, Prof. Dr. Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt
Microbiology/Organismic Interactions, Prof. Dr. Karl Forchhammer
Microbial Interactions in Plant Ecosystems, Prof, Dr. Eric Kemen
Bacterial Metabolomics, Prof. Dr. Hannes Link

From the Faculty of Medicine:

Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, provisional head: Prof. Dr. med. Silke Peter
Cellular and Molecular Microbiology, Prof. Samuel Wagner, PhD
Translational Genome Mining for Natural Products, Prof. Dr. Nadine Ziemert
Microbiome-Host Interactions, Prof. Dr. Lisa Maier

From Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science:

Infection Biology, Prof. Dr. Andreas Peschel

Independet Junior Research Groups of the IMIT:

Systems Biology of Microbial Communities, Dr. Christoph Ratzke
Functional Metabolomics, Dr. Daniel Petras
Cell Biomechanics and Host-cell-pathogen Interactions, Effie Bastounis, PhD
Systems Biology of Antibiotics, Dr. Ana Rita Brochado

IMIT is supported and evaluated by an international scientific board of advisors which convenes every other year.

Scientific Board of Advisors of IMIT

Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Hardt (ETH, Zürich)
Prof. Dr. Dr. Jürgen Heesemann (LMU, München)
Prof. Dr. Andrei Lupas (MPI für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen)
Prof. Dr. Franz Narberhaus (Universität Bochum)
Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Sahl (Universität Bonn)
Prof. Dr. Ruth Schmitz-Streit (Universität Kiel)