The special feature of a specialization program is the supraregional cooperation of the participating scientists. The Senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG) may set up specialization programs if the coordinated funding of the corresponding area promises to generate a scientific gain. more
Specialization programs with a spokesperson function
SPP 1819: Rapid evolutionary adaptation: Potential and constraints
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmid, Dept. of Crop Biodiversity and Breeding Informatics (350b)
SPP 1149: Heterosis in plants
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Albrecht Melchinger, Dept. of Seed Science and Population Genetics
SPP 1083: Intelligent agents and their application in business scenarios
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Stefan Kirn, Dept. of Information Systems II (530d)
Specialization programs with Hohenheim participation
SPP 2349: Genomic basis of evolutionary innovations (GEvol)
Project leader UHOH: Dr. Manuela Sann, Dept. of Chemical Ecology (190t)
SPP 2322: Systems ecology of soils – energy discharge modulated by microbiome and boundary conditions
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Ellen Kandeler, Dept. of Soil Biology (310b)
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Thilo Streck, Dept. of Biogeophysics (310d)
SPP 2267: Digitalization of working worlds. Conceptualizing and capturing a systemic transformation
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Caroline Ruiner, Dept. of Sociology (560f)
SPP 2089: Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organisation - a Key to Rhizosphere Functions
Project leader UHOH: Dr. Monika Wimmer, Dept. of Quality of Plant Products
SPP 1927: Iron-Sulfur for Life
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Julia Fritz-Steuber, Dept. of Cellular Microbiology (190i)
SPP 1879: Nucleotide second messenger signaling in bacteria
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Fabian Commichau, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology (190h)
SPP 1859: Experience and expectation. Historic foundations of economic behavior
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Sybille Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Dept. of Economic, Social and Agricultural History (520j)
SPP 1764: The German labor market in globalization: Challenges through trade, technology, und demography
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Aderonke Osikominu, Dept. of Econometrics and Empirical Economics (520b)
SPP 1685: Ecosystem nutrition: Forestry strategies for limited phosphorus resources
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Ellen Kandeler, Dept. of Soil Biology (310b)
SPP 1656: Intestinal microbiota – A microbial ecosystem at the edge between immune homeostasis and inflammation
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Amelia Camarinha Silva, Dept. of Livestock Microbial Ecology (460m)
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. W. Florian Fricke, Dept. of Microbiome and Applied Bioinformatics (140d)
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bischoff, Dept. of Nutritional Medicine / Prevention and Gender (180a)
SPP 1530: Flowering time control: from natural variation to crop improvement
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Tobias Würschum, Dept. of Plant Breeding (350a)
SPP 1529: Evolutionary plant solutions to ecological challenges: Molecular mechanisms underlying adaptive traits in the Brassicaceae s.l. (Adaptomics)
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Karl Schmid, Dept. of Crop Biodiversity and Breeding Informatics (350b)
SPP 1394: Mast cells – promoters of health and modulators of disease
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bischoff, Dept. of Nutritional Medicine / Prevention and Gender (180a)
SPP 1374: Biodiversity exploratories
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Ellen Kandeler, Dept. of Soil Biology (310b)
SPP 1365: The regulatory and functional network of ubiquitin family proteins
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Ralf Kölling-Paternoga, Dept. of Yeast Genetics and Fermentation Technology (150f)
SPP 1319: Biological transformations of hydrocarbons in the absence of oxygen
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Jana Seifert, Dept. of Feed-Gut Microbiota Interaction (460c)
SPP 1316: Host-adapted metabolism of bacterial pathogens
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Herbert Schmidt, Dept. of Food Microbiology and Hygiene (150a)
SPP 1315: Biogeochemical interfaces in soil
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Ellen Kandeler, Dept. of Soil Biology (310b)
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Thilo Streck, Dept. of Biogeophysics (310d)
SPP 1167: Quantitative rainfall prediction
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Volker Wulfmeyer, Dept. of Physics and Meteorology (120a)
SPP 1090: Soils as a source and sink for CO2 mechanisms and regulation of the stabilization of organic matter in soils
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Ellen Kandeler, Dept. of Soil Biology (310b)
SPP 1047: Ecology of bacterial pathogens: Molecular and evolutionary aspects
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Herbert Schmidt, Dept. of Food Microbiology and Hygiene (150a)
SPP 1045: Structure, function, and regulation of the 20S/26S ubiquitin proteasome system
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Ralf Kölling-Paternoga, Dept. of Yeast Genetics and Fermentation Technology (150f)
SPP 1027: Evolution of developmental biological processes
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Martin Blum, Dept. of Zoology (190z)
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