BRAMKAMP LAB

Understanding how Prokaryotic Cells Organise in Space and Time

RESEARCH

PROJECTS

Our laboratory is dedicated to deciphering the molecular mechanisms responsible for the spatio-temporal arrange-ment of biochemical processes and to understanding how life ultimately arises from a variety of biochemical reactions.

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CYTOKINESIS AND

MORPHOGENESIS

MEMBRANE
DYNAMICS

ANTIBIOTICS

CHROMOSOME

ORGANIZATION

ADVANCED

IMAGING

PHAGE BIOLOGY

Research Projects

OUR LAB

Bacterial cells show a remarkably complex subcellular organization.
Although, most bacteria lack sophisticated endomembrane systems they employ various mechanisms to ensure precise spatio-temporal organization of the diverse cellular processes.

We use advanced imaging methods including single-molecule localization microscopy to study cellular structures with nanometer resolution. Our research ultimately aims at understanding how the precise organization of biochemical reactions leads from chemistry to life.

Our lab was established in 2006 at the University of Cologne. After several years being Professor of Microbiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU) Prof. Marc Bramkamp followed a call to the
Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel in 2019, where he is chair of microbial biochemistry and cell biology and
head of the bioimaging facility (https://www.biologie.uni-kiel.de/zm/de/).

Our lab

NEWS

New insights into the bacterial immune system

Research team from Kiel University describes unknown defence mechanism in bacteria that selectively wards off foreign and potentially harmful genetic information.

Previously unknown mode of bacterial growth discovered

Research teams from Kiel University’s Microbiology and the Universities of Amsterdam and Munich use imaging and modelling to explain why single bacterial cells do not always grow exponentially.

New piece of the puzzle in the architecture of life

Kiel research team investigates previously-unknown reproduction mechanism in the biotech-relevant bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum.

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New bacterial species discovered in the intestine

Researchers from MPI-EB Plön and Kiel University hope that the newly described species will provide a better understanding of the evolution of the genus Bacteroides as part of a healthy microbiota.

Molecular powerhouse of the cell division motor

Interdisciplinary research teams from the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry and the Institute of General Microbiology at Kiel University show that dynamic proteins can deform the cell membrane of bacterial cells and thus initiate cell division.

Last line of defense: How bacterial populations are protected against viral infections

A research team from Kiel University describes how a bacterial dynamin protein is involved in a previously unknown protective mechanism against bacteriophage infections.