CIBSS is committed to supporting scientists in pursuing research on an integrative level: Across scales in living organisms, across research fields and from early on in their career. To bring forward the integrative aspects of the work of early career CIBSS researchers and to value their publication effort, CIBSS created the InteGREATor award. It will be granted to postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students at CIBSS for their most outstanding publications that fall into the research spectrum of the cluster of excellence.
The winners are awarded € 3.000 for postdocs € 2.000 for doctoral researchers – money that can be spent for their research inside the cluster. All three awardees were first authors of the studies they published.
Optogenetics, Single Cell Biology and Embryology: In three different disciplines these publications display the ideas and goals of CIBSS. The implemantation of the cluster’s program is taking form: It brings forward first class research results through an integrative and interdisciplinary perspective, that allows for a wider, more holistic view of how signals steer an organism.
The research program of CIBSS is well represented in the selected publications of the awardees: They cover mechanistic understandings of organizational signals on the single cell level up to organs as in the case of the liver by Nadim Aizarani or of cell fate in development by Jelena Tosic. Additionally, Dr. Maximillian Hörner receives the post-doctoral award for the development of his tunable hydrogel controlled by light – a control-of-function technology and another focus inside the CIBSS research program.
