We are interested in a systems-based understanding of regulatory networks in prokaryotes. These include processing and integration of external and internal stimuli. The combination of molecular biology approaches to study defined components with high-throughput techniques leads to quantitative and dynamic data. Such data sets are essential for the development of a systems perspective of prokaryotic cells. Approaches used in our research, apart from standard molecular genetics and biochemical methods, are largely based on omics techniques of genome research (transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics), biophysical methods and bioinformatics approaches.
Our research focuses on the molecular aspects of symbiotic plant-microbe interactions and in particular on signalling and cell differentiation processes involved in establishment of symbiosis. We are also interested in interactions between bacterial phytopathogens and their host plants.

Team AG Becker