Supported projects since January 2008

Novel Magnetic Semiconductors for Efficient Spin Injection into Silicon

Dr. Dominique Bougeard Technische Universität München Walter Schottky Institut	Prof. Dr. A. C. Gossard University of California, Santa Barbara Materials Department

Modeling of data and data flow in service-oriented development approaches for embedded systems

Prof. Dr. Manfred Broy Technische Universität München	Prof. Dr. Ingolf Krueger University of California, San Diego Computer Science & Engineering

The substrate range and mechanism of the molecular chaperone Hsp90

Prof. Dr. Johannes Buchner Technische Universität München TUM School of natural Science	Prof. Dr. Judith Frydman Stanford University School of Humanities and Science

Role of c-myc target genes in growth and cell cycle control of normal and malignant cells

Prof. Dr. Dirk Eick GSF - Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit GmbH Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology and Tumor Genetics	Prof. Dr. Dean Felsher Stanford University School of Medicine - Dept. of Oncology

Association of gene amplification, prognostic factors and genetic polymorphisms in breast cancer patients

Dr. med. Peter A. Fasching Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Dr. Dr. Michael F. Press University of Southern California, Los Angeles Norris Cancer Center

Modelling the energy exchange between the atmosphere and forests

Prof. Dr. Thomas Foken University of Bayreuth Abt. Mikrometeorologie	Prof. Dr. Kyaw Tha Paw U University of California, Davis Department of Land, Air Resources

Nanofluidic devices and filtration at the nanoscale

Dr. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral Technische Universität München Walter Schottky Institut	Dr. Jason Holt Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Chemical Sciences Division

Novel Genomics Technologies to Screen for Targets of Cardiac Transcription Factors

Prof. Dr. Manfred Frasch Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Department for Developmental Biology	Prof. Dr. Angela Stathopoulos California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (CALTECH) Division of Biology

Nitrogen transport between mycorrhizal fungi and mycoheterotrophic plants

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gebauer University of Bayreuth BayCEER - Laboratory of Isotope Biogeochemistry	Dr. Nicole Hynson University of California, Berkeley Bruns Lab - Department of Plant and Microbiology

Materials with coupled order parameters under extreme conditions

PD Dr. Rudi Hackl Technische Universität München Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik E23 -Walther-Meißner-Institut für Tieftemperatur	Prof. Dr. T. P. Devereaux Stanford University Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

Selective grow of organic single crystals on self-assembled monolayers for transistor applications

Prof. Dr. Marcus Halik Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Lehrstuhl für Werkstoffwissenschaften (Allgemeine Werkstoffeigenschaften)	Prof. Dr. Zhenan Bao Stanford University Department of Chemical Engineering

Automatic Design Space Exploration and Synthesis of Embedded Systems Communication

Dr. Christian Haubelt Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Lehrstuhl für Informatik 12, Hardware-Software-Co-Design	Dr. Andreas Gerstlauer University of California, Irvine Center for Embedded Computer Systems

A novel platform for cancer vaccines based on tumor antigen delivery by attenuated Salmonella

Prof. Dr. Michael Hensel Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie und Infektionsimmunologie	Dr. Leonid Metelitsa University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Medicine, Childrens Hospital LA

Interference of Hedgehog signaling as a hopeful new strategy for skin tumor treatment

PD Dr. Roland Kappler Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich	Prof. Dr. Colin Jamora University of California, San Diego Division of Biological Sciences

Gene profiling of melanoma cells responsive to treatment with the multikinase inhibitor sorafenib (NexavarR)

Prof. Dr. Eckhart Kämpgen Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Hautklinik - Universitätsklinikum Erlangen	Prof. Dr. Boris Bastian University of California, San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center

Cognitively motivated action components for use in activity recognition

Prof. Dr. Paul Lukowicz University of Passau	Dr. Dorrit Billman Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Palo Alto Research Center Computing Science Lab

Stochastic noise in metabolic networks including spatial degrees of freedom

Prof. Dr. Klaus Mecke Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik	Prof. Dr. Terence Hwa University of California, San Diego Department of Physics, M/C 0374

One-Dimensional Atomic Nanowires on Semiconductor Surfaces

Dr. Jörg Schäfer University of Würzburg Lehrstuhl für experimentelle Physik 4	Dr. Eli Rotenberg University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Advanced Light Source

Video Combining of Mobile Received TV Signals

Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Tröger unbekannt	Prof. Dr. Jerry D. Gibson University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Self-organization in Network-on-a-Chip Architectures

Prof. Dr. Theo Ungerer University of Augsburg Department of Computer Science	Prof. Dr. Nader Bagherzadeh University of California, Irvine Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science