Photo: UHH/Kostika Sofroni The picture shows, on the basis of the color intensities, that different cells have a different ratio of two proteins, which play an important role in cell division.
The research group led by biologist Prof. Arp Schnittger from Universität Hamburg has received the 2018 HFSP Research Grant together with international partners from France, Chile, and the USA. The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) is an international research funding agency in the life sciences that aims to promote research at the forefront of science. The Hamburg team will receive $90,000 per annum over the next 3 years-the equivalent of around ¤73,000 per year. Research will focus on molecular processes in cells that are often influenced by random events. For example, whether or not 2 proteins meet in a cell has an impact on whether 1 protein can be altered by the other protein. This raises the question as to what extent a cell makes use of these accidental events in decisions, or how far these random events are modulated by the cell, for example, by amplifying or weakening these random effects. An international research network funded by the HFSP Research Grant, to which the team from Universität Hamburg belongs, will investigate the role and influence of these random events on the control of plant cell division.
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