Welcome to our Department

Chair: Prof. Andreas Ladurner

Our Research
• We investigate how cells sense, interpret and adapt to an ever-changing environment through the coordinated action of metabolites, chromatin regulators and signalling networks in health and disease. Our work explores the molecular logic that links metabolism, nuclear structure and genome function across atomic scales and biological systems, from 3D genome and protein structures to chromatin-based gene regulation in fungi, parasites, insects and mammals.
• By combining genomic, structural, computational and physiological in vivo approaches, our teams uncover how gene regulation and chromatin organization shape cellular identity, neuronal plasticity and human disease.

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Our Teaching and Training
• We play an active role in medical and life science education at LMU Munich. Every year, over 1000 MD candidates learn their introductory molecular life sciences with our teachers – a world-leading number.
• We also welcome Bachelor’s and Master’s candidates, as well as PhD students and researchers at all levels to join our collaborative and international research environment, where innovation happens and early career scientists make their luck.

Bring your curiosity, ideas and passion for discovery – whether you’re development your career or building toward full independence – and get in touch!

Our Translation
• Naturally, we strive to translate the fundamental mechanistic insights that we discover into therapeutic innovation. We promote entrepreneurship through the creation of spin-off projects, start-up companies and contributing to the health eco-system.
• Our translational efforts focus on metabolic disease and cancer, where we aim to develop much-needed transformative and sustainable biomedical solutions.

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