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Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Heinrich-Heine University is committed to its patron name: Brilliant intellect, broad-minded spirit and heart, tolerance towards other people and opinions, commitment to the culture of Europe and the city of Dusseldorf - life, work and legacy are a permanent incentive of the Heinrich Heine University. In the spirit of their namesgiver it is a particular concern of the Heinrich Heine University, to bring science and research to people in to their close environment.
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
- Institute for Ecological Plant Physiology and Geobotany
- Institut for Bioorganic Chemistry
- Chair of Accounting
- Institute for Zoomorphology, Cell Biology and Parasitology
- Physical Biology
- Department of Biology
- Institute of Plant Molecular and Developmental Biology
- Institute for Molecular Enzyme Technology
- Work group Ecophysiology
- Institute for Metabolic Physiology
- Institute of Quantitative Genetics and Genomics of Plants
Coordinated projects
- Barley WHIRLY1 protein, localised in both chloroplasts and nucleus, as a master regulator of cross-tolerance vis-à-vis abiotic and biotic stresses
- Collaborative project: GABI COOL 2: Genomics of cool tolerance in maize, part of project 2
- Collaborative project: Livestock Farming: Acceptance through Innovation (SocialLab_II) - subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Methodological Foundations of Diploid Hybrid Potato Breeding - subproject A
- Collaborative: Polymeric surfactants from renewable raw materials with enhanced performance characteristics. Subproject 4: Development of new enzymes
- Collaborative: Polymeric surfactants from renewable raw materials with enhanced performance characteristics. Subproject 5: Chemoenzymatic synthesis
- Joint project: optimization of the production of microbial rhamnolipids based on renewable raw materials. Sub-project 1: construction of improved production strains based on knowledge of systems
- SafeGuard. Work package 2.4 Campylobacter - Monitoring and Abatement
- Targeted delivery of dietary flavanols for optimal human cell function: Effect on cardiovascular health (FLAVIOLA)
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- Accessing the genomic and functional diversity of maize to improve quantitative traits - subproject I
- Collaborative project: Creation of tools for Genomic selection in potato. Subproject 1: Genomic diversity and development of statistical methods for Genomic selection. Coordination
- Collaborative project: FUGATO-plus - HyBee - developing molecular methods for the selection pathogen resistent honey bees based on gene expression differences of hygienic and not hygienic not worker bees; project part Düsseldorf
- Collaborative project: Identification and characterization of maize varieties, whose biomass is more amenable to degradation, providing a renewable resource for the chemical industry - subproject A
- Collaborative project: SocialLab – Society's perception of animal husbandry - subproject 7
- Collaborative project: The development of innovative concepts for pig pens that will be socially acceptable also in the future based on a scientifically supported discourse of agribusiness, civil society and scientific actors. Subproject 4
- Development and use of a bio-organic solid fertilizer for secure growth and to increase the added value of local crops
- Diversify and increase production in pond fisheries
- Entomological studies to control Bluetongue disease (BTD), WG 1
- GABI FUTURE Alliance project: 'Biomass production in corn: genomics-based and system-oriented plant breeding for corn to energy' (GABI-ENERGY): Project E
- TRANSDOTT - Translation of Domestication of Thunnus thynnus into an innovative commercial application
Involved in research projects
Contact
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
(HHU)
Universitätsstr. 1
40225 Düsseldorf
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)211 81-00
Fax: +49 (0)211 81-15279
Email: rektor(@)hhu.de
