DFG priority programs
DFG priority programs
SPP 1991: Taxon-Omics: New approaches for discovering and naming biodiversity
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Dominik Begerow, Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology
funding since 2017
- Project: The genomic basis of host specificity as tool for species recognition and delimitations in Ustilaginales - a parasite group with high gene flow
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Dominik Begerow, Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology
funding since 2017
Participation in DFG priority programs
SPP 2392: Visual Communication. Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives (ViCom)
Spokeperson: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Department of Modern Philologies
- Project: Iconic metaphors and the gesture-sign interface in German Sign Language – corpus data meet experiments
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Annika Herrmann & Prof. Dr. Natalia Filatkina
- Project: Exploring the limits of simultaneity: Encoding caused change-of-state events with classifier constructions German Sign Language (DGS)
Project leader: Dr. Cornelia Loos
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Term: since 2022
- Project: SAFE: Synthetically Accessible Fragment Space Extensions by Machine Learning-Based Approaches
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Matthias Rarey, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Center for Bioinformatics (ZBH)
Term: since 2022
SPP 2267: The digitalization of working worlds. Conceptualising and capturing a systemic transformation
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Term: since 2020
- Project: Does the macro-level matter? A comparative analysis of institutional frameworks and gigwork platforms across EU-28 countries
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Beyer, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Department of Social Sciences
Term: since 2020
SPP 2244: 2D Materials – Physics of van der Waals [hetero]structures (2DMP)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thomas Heine, Dresden University of Technology
Term: since 2020
- Project: Atomistic theory of excited states in van-der-Waals heterostructures: Moiré confinement, strain and electric field effects
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Gabriel Bester,Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Institute for Physical Chemistry
Term: since 2020
SPP 2207: Computational Literary Studies
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Fotis Jannidis, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Term: since 2019
- Project: Evaluation von Events in der NarraTologie (EvENT)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Biemann, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Informatics
Term: since 2020
SPP 2143: Entangled Africa: Intra-African connections between Rainforest and Mediterranean (ca. 6000 to 500 BP)
Spokesperson: PD Dr. Jörg Linstädter, German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
Term: since 2018
- Project: Connecting the lower middle Niger through borrowed words and shared objects: Archaeo-linguistic network analysis and modelling of cultural entanglements between the Malian Sahara and the Nigerian forests (AD 700-1500).
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Henning Schreiber, Faculty of Humanities, Asia-Africa Studies
Term: since 2019
SPP 2137: Skyrmionics: Topological Spin Phenomena in Real-Space for Applications
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Christian Pfleiderer, TU Munich
Term: since 2018
- Project: Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of current-driven magnetic skyrmions
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Michael Thorwart, Faculty of Mathmatics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, I.Institute for Theoretical Physics
Term: since 2018
SPP 2134: The active self
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Markus Paulus, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Term since 2018
- Project: Active voice: The influence of dynamic extralinguistic and acoustic spatial cues on voice self-ownership.
Project leader: Dr. David Magezi, Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement, Institute of Psychology, Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology
Term: since 2018
SPP 2084: µBONE: Colonization and interaction of tumor cells within the bone microenvironment
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hofbauer, University Medical Center Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
Term: since 2018
- Project: Role of Tgif1 in breast cancer-induced pathological bone remodeling
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Eric Hesse; Dr. Hanna Taipaleenmäki, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Surgical Sciences
Term: since 2018 - Project: RAI2 as novel suppressor of cancer cell homing and survival in the bone marrow
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Harriet Wikman-Kocher; Prof. Dr. Klaus Pantel, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Experimental Medicine
Term: since 2018 - Project: Dissecting the role of TAM receptors in myeloma-induced osteoclast activation and their immune-modulatory function
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Sonja Loges; Dr. Isabel Ben Batalla, Faculty of Medicine, II. Medical Clinic and Polyclinic
Term: since 2018 - Project: Influence of the skeletal remodeling status on tumor cell dissemination and metastatic outgrowth
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Michael Amling; Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schinke, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Osteology and Biomechanics
Term: since 2018 - Project: Characterization of the impact of bone-seeking tumors on the osteocyte network and the osteocyte-mediated regulation of bone turnover
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Björn Busse, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Osteology and Biomechanics
Term: since 2018 - Project: Regulation of Tumor Cell Dormancy in Human Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Tobias Lange, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Eperimental Medicine
Term: since 2018
SPP 1926: Next Generation Optogenetics: Tool Development and Application
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Alexander Gottschalk, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
Term: since 2016
- Project: Optogenetic silencing tools for precise, all-optical analysis of synaptic circuits
Project leader: Dr. Peter Soba und Dr. Jörn S. Wiegert, Faculty of Medicine / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Center for Molecular Neurobiology
Term: since 2016
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Joachim Curtius, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Dr.-Ing. Mirko Scheinert, Dresden University of Technology, Prof. Dr. Manfred Wendisch, Leipzig University
Term: since 2007
- Project: Understanding clouds and precipitation at the sub kilometer scale using HAMP – The edge of shallow precipitation (UCP-HAMP-Edge)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Felix Ament, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences Department, Department of Earth System Sciences (Earth Sciences)
Meteorological Institute
Term: since 2019 - Project: EC-TOOC umbrella proposal - EarthCARE, Tropical Oceans & Organized Convection
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Felix Ament, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences Department, Department of Earth System Sciences (Earth Sciences)
Meteorological Institute
Term: since 2023