Mercator Fellows
At RTG 3120, Mercator Fellows play several central roles. They are members of the Advisory Board, giving guidance for strategic planning to steer the research focus and future research plans. They take part in training and networking activities and host RTG students in their labs for research stays.
From Physics to biological Functions
Jeetain Mittal
Texas A&M University
Amy Gladfelter
Duke University School of Medicine
Richard A. Young
Whitehead Institute, MIT
Jeetain Mittal (Texas A&M University) leads a team of biologists, physicists, chemists, and engineers that develop theory and simulation models of liquid-liquid phase separation, which elegantly complements the work of our researchers in project area A and promises a unique exchange of approaches and expertise.
Amy Gladfelter (Duke University School of Medicine) leads a team of biologists, mathematicians, engineers and biophysicists that study how RNA sequence and structure reg-ulates BMCs that are involved in regulating cell shape, cycle, and division. Gladfelter’s group shows exemplary interdisciplinarity and their research area bridges our two re-search areas A and B.
Richard A. Young (Whitehead Institute, MIT) leads a group that study how BMCs regulate gene expression and the compartmentalisation of therapeutic agents using experi-mental and computational approaches, leading to new concepts in disease therapy. Their work will help our researchers, especially in project area B, identify the implications of our findings and areas of transfer to medical research.