'Identifying pathogens within minutes instead of days.' Image: Dr. Robert Reich / TUM

Mechanism for controlling anti-viral defense in the cell revealed. Photo: Dr. Annemieke IJpenberg / TUM

Research team develops a new method for de novo protein design. Photo: Andreas Heddergott / TUM

©Picture: Astrid Eckert (TUM)

Research on the Physics of Self-Organization in Biology. Photo: Stefan Woidig / TUM

©Picture: Stefan Woidig (TUM)

©Picture: Magdalena Jooss

Bioscience on Campus Garching

At the Department of Bioscience, TUM School of Natural Sciences, international teams explore complex biological systems — interdisciplinary, innovative, and application-oriented. From molecular biophysics and synthetic biology to computational biology, leading research groups work with cutting-edge technologies such as electron microscopy, NMR, and mass spectrometry.

Located on the Garching campus, we offer a dynamic environment for students, doctoral candidates, and researchers eager to push the frontiers of the life sciences.

Molecular Biophysics

Research groups involved: Dietz, Duderstadt, Rief, Zacharias

Structural Biology

Research groups involved: de Oliveira Mann, Groll, Hagn, Reif, Sattler, Zacharias

Cell Biology

Research groups involved: Buchner, Feige, Nedialkova, Westmeyer

Chemical Biology

Research groups involved: Groll, Sattler, Sieber, Strittmatter, Zeymer

Computational Biophysics

Research groups involved: Alim, Gerland, Zacharias

Systems Biology

Research groups involved: Gerland, Nedialkova, Simmel, Strittmatter

Protein Biochemistry

Research groups involved: Buchner, Feige, Groll, Hagn, Reif, Sattler, Sieber, Zeymer

Nucleic Acid Biochemistry

Research groups involved: Dietz, Duderstadt, Nedialkova, Sattler

Synthetic Biology

Research groups involved: Bausch, Dietz, Simmel, Westmeyer

Cellular Biophysics

Research groups involved: Alim, Bausch, Duderstadt

Events, colloquia, and seminars at the TUM School of Natural Sciences

15

Dec

2025

11:00 - 12:00 h

Lecture Series: Colloquium on Physical and Theoretical Chemistry: From Molecular Machines to Heterogeneous Catalysts: Atomic-Level Insights via Solid-State NMR

Location: extern
Comment: Speaker:Dr. Jonas Koppe, ETH Zurich (Guest of Prof. Dominik Bucher), talk takes place in TUMInt seminar room CH 46220 (https://nav.tum.de/room/5406.03.621D)

15

Dec

2025

14:00 - 16:00 h

Information on the Bachelor’s Thesis and Continuing of Studies in the Bachelor’s Program Physics: Informationen zu Bachelorarbeit und weiterem Studium im Bachelorstudiengang Physik

Location: EI-HS Garching
Speaker: Dr. Philipp Höffer von Loewenfeld

16

Dec

2025

15:30 - 17:00 h

Seminar of the Atomistic Modeling Center: Electron-phonon coupling and polarons in complex oxides: first-principles and machine-learning approaches

Location: MIBE E.126
Comment: Speaker: Dr. Carla Verdi (University of Queensland, Australia)

additional information

16

Dec

2025

17:15 - 19:00 h

GDCh Colloquium: Driving Polyester Sustainability through Metal-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Polymerization

Location: CH 26411
Comment: Speaker: Prof. Friederike Adams Institute of Polymer Chemistry Univ. Stuttgart

18

Dec

2025

15:00 - 17:00 h

CRC Distinguished Lecturer Series: Unleashing New Patterns of Reactivity with Electron-Rich Main Group Compounds

Location: CH 26411
Comment: Speaker: Prof. Simon Aldridge (University of Oxford)

additional information

18

Dec

2025

15:30 - 16:30 h

CPA Seminar: Extracellular mechanisms modulating proteostasis and aggregate spreading

Location: CPA EG.006A
Comment: Prof. Patricia Yuste-Checa, MPG

09

Jan

2026

14:00 - 16:00 h

CPA Seminar

Location: CPA EG.006A
Comment: Prof. Claudia Hörbartner, U. Würzburg

14

Jan

2026

16:15 - 17:45 h

Information on Research Phase, Master's Thesis, and End of Studies in the Master’s Programs Physics: Informationen zur Forschungsphase (auf Deutsch)

Location: PH HS1
Speaker: Dr. Martin Saß