Microbiology

• Up-to-date taxonomy of the Prokaryotes;
• Methods of modern systematics (especially –omis-based models of relationships);
• problems and limits of cultivation and taxonomy;
• Presentation of the important archaeal and bacterial groups
• Structural Biology of microbial cells (Bacteria, Archaea)
• Gene regulation in Prokaryotes with specific transcription factors or alternative sigma factors
• Methods to explore gene regulation systems
• Posttranscriptional regulation with small RNAs and special RNA-binding proteins
• Organisation and mechanisms of the CRISPR-Cas sytems
• Modern fluorescence-based methods (e.g. single-molecule FRET, superresolution microscopy) to study biomolecules in vivo and in vitro

• microbial diversity, methods in microbial ecology and microbial-driven processes of environmental and/or biotechnological relevance
• molecular microbiology with a special focus on transcriptional and posttranscriptional gene regulation

1. At least two lectures in the field of microbiology (for a selection see the course catalog at the university portal).

• Systematic of the Prokaryotes (winter semester)
• Gene regulation in Prokaryotes (winter semester)
• Synthetic and Applied Microbiology (winter semester)

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2. One seminar in the field of microbiology (for a selection see the course catalog at the university portal).

• Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology (winter semester)
• Transcriptional and posttranscriptional gene regulation in Prokaryotes (summer semester)
• SynMiBi SGM (winter and summer semester)

In the seminar a seminar presentation has to be held and registered in Flexnow as an ungraded study achievement (Studienleistung).

30 min oral examination (graded)

Examiner:

• Prof. Dr. Dina Grohmann
• Prof. Dr. Markus Jeschek
• Prof. Dr. Winfried Hausner

The student can choose the examiner.

Please get in contact with the examiner of your choice to arrange a date of the oral examination, than register the examination in flexnow.

• Advanced insights in the field of fluorescence-based analysis of biomolecules
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of single-molecule methods in biological research with special emphasis on fluorescence-based techniques like single-molecule FRET, single-molecule pulldown, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) using confocal and TIRF-based microscopes
• Approaches for the site