Former Group Leaders
- Basse, Christoph - Department of Organismic Interactions, 2001-2008
- Project group leader at the Department of Genetics, Institute of Applied Biosciences of University of Karlsruhe (TH)
- Braker, Gesche - Department of Biogeochemistry, 2001-2012
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- Bremer, Erhard - Department of Biochemistry, 1992-1995
- Full Professor of Microbiology at the Philipps-Universität Marburg
- Dunfield, Peter - Department of Biogeochemistry, 2000-2004
- Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Feldbrügge, Michael - Department of Organismic Interactions, 2000-2009
- Full Professor for Microbiology at the University Düsseldorf
- Fischer, Reinhard - Department of Biochemistry, 1994-2004
- Full Professor for Applied Microbiology at the University Karlsruhe
- Franken, Philipp - Department of Biochemistry, 1995-2002
- Department Head at the "Leibniz-Institut für Gemüse und Zierpflanzen" (IGZ) in Großbeeren
- Friedrich, Michael - Department of Biochemistry, Project group leader 1997-2008
- Full Professor at the Universität Bremen
- Hedderich, Reiner - Department of Biochemistry, 1994-2004, Department of Ecophysiology, 2004-2009
- Leiter Forschung und Entwicklung, heipha Dr. Müller-GmbH, Eppelheim
- Jahn, Dieter - Department of Biochemistry, 1992-1996
- Full Professor of Microbiology at the University Braunschweig
- Janssen, Peter - Department of Biogeochemistry , 1993-1996
- Research Group Leader at AGResearch, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Kämper, Jörg - Department of Organismic Interactions, 2000-2007
- Full Professor of Genetics at the University Karlsruhe
- Muskhelishvili, Georgi - Department of Organismic Interactions: 2000-2003
- Full Professor of Molecular Genetics at the Jacobs-University Bremen
- Reinhold-Hurek, Barbara - Department-independent research
group "Symbiosis": 1996-1999
- Full Professor of Microbiology at the University Bremen
- Schnell, Sylvia - Department of Biogeochemistry, 199-2000
- Full Professor for General and Soil Microbiology at the University Gießen
- Schirawski, Jan - Department of Organismic Interactions, 2003-2009
- Professor for Molecular Biology of Plant Microbe Interaction at the University Göttingen
- Steinberg, Gero - Department of Organismic Interactions, 2000-2007
- Full Professor and Chair for Cell Biology at the University of Exeter, Great Britain
- Ullrich, Matthias - Department-independent research group "Ecophysiology", 1996-2001
- Full Professor of Microbiology at the Jacobs-University Bremen
- Ulrich, Helle - Department-independent BioFuture Group, 2001-2004
- Research Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute,
South Mimms, London
- Vorholt, Julia - Department of Biochemistry, 1997-2001
- Professor of Microbiology at the ETH Zürich
- Völker, Uwe - Department of Biochemistry, 1996-2002
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Professor for Functional Genomics at the University Greifswald