Head of the Institute of Experimental Genetics
Deputy director of the IEG
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Johannes Beckers, Executive MBA
beckers@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Groups
Diabetes models
Head of the group: Dr. Susanne Neschen
Keywords: mouse models, diabetes mellitus, type 2 diabetes, glucose homeostasis, lipid homeostasis, insulin action, β-cell function, therapeutic intervention, environmental challenges, hepatic insulin resistance, GMC Diabetes Screen, glucose clamps
Translational Diabetology
Head of the group: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Hans-Ulrich Häring
Keywords: Prediabetes, biomarkers, metabolically malign and benign obesity, responder/non-responder to lifestyle intervention, insulin resistance, human biomaterial (adipose tissue and skeletal muscle), “omics”
Gene regulation
Head of the group: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Johannes Beckers
Keywords: gene regulation, mouse models, transcriptomics, miRNAs, data integration, epigenetics, metabolic diseases, diabetes, maternal inheritance
Molecular endocrinology
Head of the group: Prof. Dr. Dr. Jerzy Adamski
Keywords: lipidomics, lipid and steroid metabolism, adipogenesis, diabetes, obesity, steroid-related diseases, metabolic syndrome, metabolic diseases, biomarkers, drug development
Functional genetics
Head of the group: Prof. Dr. Martin Hrabě de Angelis
Senior Staff Scientist: Dr. Gerhard Przemeck
Keywords Metabolism & Disease: mouse models; metabolic diseases; bone-related diseases; diabetes; Delta-Notch; in silico modeling
More information on Metabolism & Disease
Senior Staff Scientist: Dr. Sibylle Wagner
Keywords Mouse Mutagenesis: ENU mutagenesis, F1-DNA archive, mouse models, bone and metabolic diseases, SNP platform
More information on the Munich ENU Mutagenesis Project (MEP)
German Mouse Clinic (GMC)
Head of the group: Prof. Dr. Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Dr. Valerie Gailus-Durner, Dr. Helmut Fuchs
Keywords: open access phenotyping, comprehensive phenotyping, mouse models, pathophysiology of diseases, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and neurodegenerative diseases
Applied bioinformatics (within GMC)
Head of the group: Dr. Christoph Lengger, Dr. Holger Maier
Keywords: Standardized description of mouse phenotypes, software development, database development, open-source software, data management, LIMS, statistical analysis of phenotyping results, development of new statistics methods
Platforms
European Mouse Mutant Archive (EMMA) & Cryo preservation
Head of the group: Dr. Michael Hagn & Dr. Susan Marschall
Keywords: sperm freezing, embryo freezing, in vitro fertilisation, embryo transfer, cryopreservation; functional genomics; mouse mutants; disease models; mouse repository
Genome Analysis Center (GAC)
Head of the group: Prof. Dr. Jerzy Adamski, Prof. Dr. Thomas Illig (Deputy)
Keywords: Genome, high-throughput, HTP, omics, genotyping, DNA sequencing, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, complex diseases
More information
More details on sample preparation requirements, analytical portfolio, support possibilities and research are available under www.gac-munich.de
EU research infrastructure
Infrafrontier
Head of the group: Dr. Michael Räß
Keywords: ESFRI, research infrastructure, disease models, systemic phenotyping, functional genomics, open access, GMC, EMMA