Coordination of NatResource

Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt, PhD
Chair Microbial Bioactive Compounds, IMIT
Research expertise
- Biological profiling of antibiotics
- Mode of action elucidation

Stephanie Grond, PhD
Organic Chemistry
Research expertise
- Natural product chemistry
- Structure elucidation and derivatisation

Natural product research groups in Tübingen

Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine (IMIT)

Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt, PhD
Microbial Bioactive Compounds, IMIT
Research expertise
- Activities of antibacterial natural products
- Mode of action determination

Chambers Hughes, PhD
Microbiology / Biotechnology, IMIT
Research expertise
- Natural product isolation and structure elucidation
- Natural product synthesis and derivatization

Evi Stegmann, PhD
Microbiology / Biotechnology, IMIT
Research expertise
- Genome mining for new antibiotics
- Metabolism of secondary metabolite production

Wolfgang Wohlleben, PhD
Chair Microbiology / Biotechnology, IMIT
Research expertise
- Streptomyces bioengineering
- Antibiotic biosynthesis

Nadine Ziemert, PhD
Microbiology / Biotechnology, IMIT
Research expertise
- Bioinformatic tools for secondary metabolite analysis
- Evolution of secondary metabolite production

Institute for Organic Chemistry

Stephanie Grond, PhD
Organic Chemistry
Research expertise
- Natural product fermentation and isolation Natural product analytics and structure elucidation
- Natural product analytics and structure elucidation

Martin Maier, PhD
Organic Chemistry
Research expertise
- Total synthesis of natural products
- Design and synthesis of modified analogs

Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology

Lutz Heide, PhD
Chair Pharmaceutical Biology
Research expertise
- Synthetic biology of natural bioactive compounds
- Pharmaceutical challenges in developing countries

Harald Groß, PhD
Pharmaceutical Biology
Research expertise
- Genome mining in Pseudomonas
- Purification and structure elucidation

Berthold Gust, PhD
Pharmaceutical Biology
Research expertise
- Natural products genetics and recombineering
- Antibiotics inhibiting peptidoglycan synthesis

Leonhard Kaysser, PhD
Pharmaceutical Biology
Research expertise
- Synthetic biology of anti-infectives
- Proteasome inhibitors

Technology Support

Fermentation and Purification

Andeas Kulik, Dipl. Ing.
Microbiology / Biotechnology, IMIT

Mass Spectrometry laboratory

Dr. Dorothee Wistuba
Organic Chemistry

NMR laboratory

Dr. Markus Kramer
Organic Chemistry