Coordinated DFG programs

A research group is a close work alliance, with a one-to-eight-year timeline, of several outstanding scientists who jointly work on a research task. The goal is to achieve results that go well beyond individual funding and can only be achieved together. Research groups may be based in a university or decentralized. They frequently contribute to establishing new directions of work. more
 

Research groups with a spokesperson function

DFG FOR 5639: "Land-Atmosphäre Feedback Initiative (LAFI)"
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Volker Wulfmeyer, Dept. of Physics and Meteorology (120a)

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DFG FOR 2601: Inositol phosphates and myo-inositol in domestic fowl: Exploring the interfaces of genetics, physiology, microbiome, and nutrition – P FOWL
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Markus Rodehutscord, Dept. of Animal Nutrition (460a)

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FOR 1695:  Agricultural landscapes under global climate change – Processes and feedbacks on a regional scale
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thilo Streck, Dept. of Biogeophysics (310d)

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Selection of project groups with Hohenheim participation

FOR 5281:  Multi-trophic interactions in a forest biodiversity experiment in China
Host university:  Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
Project leader UHOH: Dr. Manuela Sann, Dept. of Chemical Ecology (190t)

FOR 3000:  Ecology and evolution of intraspecific chemodiversity in plants
Host university: Bielefeld University
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Anke Steppuhn, Dept. of Molecular Botany (190a)

FOR 2432: Socio-ecological systems in Indian urban-rural gradients: Functions, scales, and transition dynamics
Host university:  Georg August University of Göttingen
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Ingo Grass, Dept. of Ecology of Tropical Agricultural Systems (490f)

FOR 1806:  The forgotten part of the carbon cycle: Storage and conversion of organic material in the subsoil
Host university: Ruhr University in Bochum
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Ellen Kandeler, Dept. of Soil Biology (310b)

FOR 1061:  Dynamic storage functions of plant vacuoles during cold and osmotic stress
Host university: TU Kaiserslautern
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Waltraud Schulze, Dept. of Plant Systems Biology (190d)

FOR 986:  Structural change in agriculture
Host university: Humboldt University Berlin
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Martina Brockmeier, Dept. of International Agricultural Trade and World Food Security (490b)

FOR 948:  Nitrogen uptake, metabolism and remobilization in leaves during plant senescence
Host institution: Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Andreas Fangmeier, Dept. of Plant Ecology and Ecotoxicology (320b)

FOR 918:  Carbon flow on belowground food webs assessed by isotope tracer
Host university: Humboldt University Berlin
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Ellen Kandeler, Dept. of Soil Biology (310b)

FOR 497:  Structural change and transformation in the agricultural sector
Host university:
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Martina Brockmeier, Dept. of International Agricultural Trade and World Food Security (490b)

FOR 472:  Virtual crops – architecture – and process-oriented modelling and visualization of crop stocks
Host university: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Piepho, Dept. of Biostatistics (340c)

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Collaborative research centers are long-term research institutions of universities with a timeline of up to 12 years. They facilitate the work of innovative, demanding, complex and long-term research projects by coordinating and concentrating people and resources in the applicant universities. In this way, they serve to form areas of specialization and infrastructure. There is an explicit wish for cooperation with non-university research institutions. more
 

Collaborative research centers with a spokesperson function

CRC 564:  Sustainable land use and rural development in mountainous regions of South-East Asia
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Karl Stahr, Dept. of Soil Chemistry and Pedology (310a)
Funding period: 2000-2012
 

Selection of collaborative research centers with Hohenheim participation

CRC 1450:  Multiscale imaging of organ-specific inflammation
Host university: University of Münster
Project leader UHOH: PD Dr. Günter Fritz, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology (190 h)

CRC 1253:  Catchments as reactors: Metabolism of pollutants on the landscape scale (CAMPOS)
Host university: Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Ellen Kandeler, Dept. of Soil biology (310b)
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Thilo Streck, Dept. of Biogeophysics (310d)

CRC 1101:  Molecular encoding of specificity in plant processes
Host university: Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Andreas Schaller, Dept. of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (190c)

CRC 990:  Ecological and socio-economic functions of tropical lowland rainforest transformation systems (Sumatra, Indonesian)
Host university: Georg August University of Göttingen
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Ingo Grass, Dept. of Ecology of Tropical Agricultural Systems (490f)

CRC 973:  Organismic responses to stress: Priming and memory
Host university: Free University Berlin
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Anke Steppuhn, Dept. of Molecular Botany (190a)

CRC 706:  Catalytic selective oxidations of C-H bonds with molecular oxygen
Host university: University of Stuttgart
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Uwe Beifuss, Dept. of Bioorganic Chemistry (130b)
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Andreas Schaller, Dept. of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (190c)

CRC 621:  Pathobiology of intestinal mucosa
Host university: Hannover Medical School
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bischoff, Dept. of Nutritional Medicine / Prevention and Gender (180a)

CRC 575:  Experimental hepatology
Host university: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Ralf Kölling-Paternoga, Dept. of Yeast Genetics and Fermentation Technology (150f)

CRC 566:  Cytokine receptors and cytokine-mediated signaling pathways as therapeutic target structures
Host university: Hannover Medical School
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Stephan Bischoff, Dept. of Nutritional Medicine / Prevention and Gender (180a)

CRC 552:  Stability of tropical rainforest margins in Indonesia
Host university: Georg August University of Göttingen
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Regina Birner, Dept. of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development (490c)
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Manfred Zeller, Dept. of Rural Development Theory and Policy (490a)

CRC 495:  Topology and dynamics of signaling processes
Host university: University of Stuttgart
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Martin Blum, Dept. of Zoology (190z)
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Andreas Kuhn,
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Heinz Breer,
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Lutz Graeve,
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Anette Preiss

CRC 479:  Pathogen variability and host response in infectious disease processes
Host university: University of Würzburg
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Herbert Schmidt, Dept. of Food Microbiology and Hygiene (150a)

CRC 446:  Mechanisms of cell behavior in eukaryotes
Host university: Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Artur Pfitzner, Dept. of General Virology (190k)

CRC 416:  Chemical and biological synthesis and transformation of natural substances and natural substance analogs
Host university: Georg August University of Göttingen
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Uwe Beifuss, Dept. of Bioorganic Chemistry (130b)

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Research training groups are university institutions that support early career researchers. They are funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a maximum period of nine years. The focus is on the qualification of doctoral candidates as part of a research program with a specific theme and a structured qualification concept. It is desirable for the research training group to have an interdisciplinary orientation. The goal is to prepare doctoral candidates extensively for the complex "science" labor market and, at the same time, to encourage their early scientific independence. more
 

Research training groups with a spokesperson function

RTG 2366:  Adaptation of maize-based agricultural cultivation systems for food-feed-energy systems to limited phosphate resources (A-MAIZE)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Torsten Müller, Dept. of Fertilization and Soil Chemistry (340i)

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RTG 1070:  Modelling of material flows and production systems for sustainable use of resources in intensive agriculture and vegetable growing systems in the North Chinese plain
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Reiner Doluschitz,  Dept. of Management in Agribusiness (410c)

RTG 259:  Strategies to avoid the emission of climate-relevant gases and environmentally toxic substances from agriculture and landscape use
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zeddies, Dept. of Farm Management (410b)
 

Research training groups with Hohenheim participation

RTG 1829:  Integrated hydrosystem modelling
Host university: Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Thilo Streck, Dept. of Biogeophysics (310d)
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Volker Wulfmeyer, Dept. of Physics and Meteorology (120a)

RTG 722:  Use of information technologies to specify plant protection
Host university: University of Bonn
Project leader UHOH: Prof. Dr. Roland Gerhards, Dept. of Weed Science (360b)

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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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The aim of the national research data infrastructure (NFDI) is to systematically manage scientific and research data, provide long-term storage, backup, and accessibility and network the data both nationally and internationally. It is to be established during a science-led process as an interconnected structure by consortia acting on their own initiative.
 

National research data infrastructure in which the University of Hohenheim is involved

DataPLANT – Data in basic plant research

FAIRagro: FAIRe data infrastructure for agrosystem research
FAIRagro brings together the community engaged in agrosystem research, and develops customized, digital infrastructure. Agrosystem research creates the basis for sustainable crop production in existing and future agroecosystems.

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