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Cluster of Excellence “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections” (CMFI)

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Targeted computer modelling to accelerate antiviral drug development
23.03.2023 Targeted computer modelling to accelerate antiviral drug development Press Release
A protein as the key to antibiotic-resistant bacteria
21.03.2023 A protein as the key to antibiotic-resistant bacteria CMFI News
“Professor Dr. Largus Angenent - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preisträger 2023”
20.03.2023 “Professor Dr. Largus Angenent - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preisträger 2023” In the Media

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Events

Systems Biology: Can Computer Models of Metabolism provide Targets for new Therapies?
30.03.2023 Systems Biology: Can Computer Models of Metabolism provide Targets for new Therapies? 5:00 pm Webinar Andreas Dräger More
High-throughput microfluidics: new methods to advance the study of microbial interactions
13.04.2023 High-throughput microfluidics: new methods to advance the study of microbial interactions 12:30 pm 2:00 pm Joint Microbiological Colloquium Tobias Wenzel (EMBL Heidelberg) More
NGS Competence Network Workshop
14.04.2023 NGS Competence Network Workshop Workshop Lisa Maier More
Weiblichkeit und Wahnsinn: Überlegungen aus Psychiatriegeschichte und Literatur
17.04.2023 Weiblichkeit und Wahnsinn: Überlegungen aus Psychiatriegeschichte und Literatur 6:00 pm Talk Davina Höll (CMFI) More
Bioinformatic help in the search for new antibiotics
27.04.2023 Bioinformatic help in the search for new antibiotics 12:30 pm 2:00 pm Joint Microbiological Colloquium Thomas Dandekar More
The organism and its environment
09.05.2023 – 12.05.2023 The organism and its environment Symposium Detlef Weigel More
NCII: Novel Concepts in Innate Immunity
31.05.2023 – 02.06.2023 NCII: Novel Concepts in Innate Immunity Conference More
3rd International Summer School on NON-TARGETED METABOLOMICS DATA MINING
21.08.2023 – 25.08.2023 3rd International Summer School on NON-TARGETED METABOLOMICS DATA MINING Summer School Daniel Petras (CMFI) More

About the CMFI

The surfaces of the human body host colonies of microorganisms, known as microbiomes. Along with bacteria which have a positive effect on human health, microbiomes contain potentially life-threatening pathogens. In the past, broad-spectrum antibiotics have often been used to tackle them. Nowadays it is known that this not only promotes resistance to antibiotics – in many cases it also damages the microbiome as a whole. 

 

CMFI researchers aim to develop new strategies to control microbial mechanisms and fight infections.

The Cluster of Excellence CMFI brings together researchers from different disciplines such as infection biology, immunology, bioinformatics, pharmaceutical biology, antibiotics research, molecular and medical microbiology, biotechnology, environmental biology, systems biology, chemistry, and medical history and ethics. Their common goal is to elucidate the mechanisms of interaction between beneficial and harmful bacteria and the host in order to develop novel targeted therapeutic and anti-infective treatments.

The CMFI is one of more than 50 Clusters of Excellence funded by German federal and state governments as part of the Excellence Initiative to sustainably strengthen Germany as a center of science, improve its international competitiveness and make cutting-edge research at German universities visible. In addition to the University of Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute for Biology and the University Hospital Tübingen are involved in the CMFI.

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