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 six full professorships, two associate professorships, two assistant professorships, 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
• Microbiome Editing to Prevent Infection, Dr. Simon Heilbronner
• Functional Metabolomics, Dr. Daniel Petras
• Cell Biomechanics and Host-cell-pathogen Interactions, Effie Bastounis, PhD

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)