Supported projects since January 2007

Novel Sub-Wavelength Grating High-Speed Data-Com-Lasers (VCSELs)

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus-Christian Amann
Technische Universität München
Walter Schottky Institut

Prof. Dr. Constance Chang-Hasnain
University of California, Berkeley
EECS - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


Dynamic 3D object maps for autonomous mobile robots

Prof. Dr. Michael Beetz
Technische Universität München
Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group

Prof. Dr. Kurt Konolige
SRI International
Artifical Intelligence Center


Impact of fluid mechanical process design on enzyme catalyzed reactions

Peter Ferstl
Technische Universität München
Lehrstuhl für Fluidmechanik und Prozessautomation

Prof. Dr. Charles Bamforth
University of California, Davis
Department of Food Sciences and Technology


Structural Analysis of SPPL3, a γ-Secretase Like Intramembrane Cleaving GxGD Protease

Dr. Regina Fluhrer
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Medical Faculty Adolf-Butenandt-Institute, Department of Metabolic Biochemistry

Hartmut Luecke
University of California, Irvine
Depts. of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Computer Science


Performance Analysis Tools for Peta-scale Computing Systems

Prof. Dr. Michael Gerndt
Technische Universität München

Prof. Dr. Hans Zima
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (CALTECH)
Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR)

Dr. Martin Schulz
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Center of Applied Scientific Computing


Molecular mechanism of gene activation: Chromatin transition at the yeast PHO5 promoter

Prof. Dr. Joachim Griesenbeck
University of Regensburg

Prof. Dr. Hinrich Boeger
University of California, Santa Cruz
Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology


Tissue residing stem and progenitor cells – identification and characterization of their potential role for postnatal neovascularization

Prof. Dr. med. Christopher Heeschen
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik Großhadern, Bereich Exp. Forschung Chirurgie

Prof. Dr. John P. Cooke
Stanford University
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine


Correction of intensity variations for whole body magnetic resonance imaging

Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Computer Science Department 5 - Pattern Recognition Lab

Prof. Dr. J. Paul Finn
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Department of Radiology


New mechanisms in actin polymerization: cooperation of Spir- and formin-family proteins in actin nucleation

Dr. Eugen Kerkhoff
Bayerisches Genomforschungsnetzwerk

Dr. Dyche R. Mullins
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology


Protein functions of GB Virus C, new approaches for anti-HIV therapeutics

Dr. rer. nat. Dr. med. Heide Reil
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Lehrstuhl für Klinische Virologie

Prof. Dr. Vishwanath R. Lingappa
Prosetta Corporation
Medical Therapeutics


MR imaging of cerebral infarcts with new iron oxide nanoparticles

Jürgen Schlegel
Technische Universität München

Dr. Heike E. Daldrup-Link
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Radiology


Electronic structure and many-body effects of ultra-thin graphite

PD Dr. Thomas Seyller
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik

Dr. Eli Rotenberg
University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Advanced Light Source


New methods for characterizing nanomagnets

Dr. Michael Winklhofer
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Fakultät für Geophysik - Department Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften

Prof. Dr. Kai Liu
University of California, Davis
Department of Physics


Organometallic OLED materials in superfluid helium droplets

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Yersin
University of Regensburg

Prof. Dr. Curt Wittig
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Department of Chemistry