Team

Maja Vujic Spasic

Peter Steele-Perkins

P1: Maja Vujic Spasic (Ulm)

Project title: Role of iron in bone metabolism of Hfe-hemochromatosis

Team: Peter Steele-Perkins (PhD student)

P2: Andrea Steinbicker (Frankfurt) & Guiscard Seebohm (Münster)

Project title: TMPRSS6-mediated regulation of iron via cleavage of BMP pathway components in liver and bone

Team: Isabelle Hornung (PhD student), Suma Choorapoikayil (PostDoc), Lisa Schrader (Recipient FerrOs Start-up modul), Anne Humberg (technician), Nathalie Strutz-Seebohm (Group leader)

P3: Martina Rauner (Dresden)

Project title: Mechanisms of Tfr1-mediated iron uptake in bone and effects of iron on bone cell bioenergetics

Team: Vanessa Passin (PhD student), Maria Ledesma-Colunga (Recipient FerrOs Start-up modul)

P4: Ulrike Baschant (Dresden)

Project title: Defining the role of the iron-sensor Tfr2 in ossification processes

Team: Sven Spangenberg (PhD student)

P5: Martina Muckenthaler (Heidelberg)

Project title: Identification of iron-related signals controlling BMP expression in liver non-parenchymal cells

Team: Ruiyue Qiu (PostDoc), Stefania Cucinelli (PhD student), Anja Schuh (Clinician Scientist)

P6: Sandro Altamura (Heidelberg) & Lorenz Hofbauer (Dresden)

Project title: Dissecting the bone cell-specific functions of ferroportin

Team: Tiago Carvalho Oliveira (PhD student), Claudia Krause (technician)

P7: Ursula Klingmüller (Heidelberg)

Project title: Unraveling mechanisms regulating the dynamics of BMP signal transduction and its impact on hepcidin expression with a systems biology approach

Team: Philipp Kastl (PostDoc)

P8: Andrea Burden (Zürich), Andrea Steinbicker (Frankfurt) & Lorenz Hofbauer (Dresden) 

Project title: Impact of iron overload and anemia on fractures

Team: Marcel Rauer (Clinician Scientist)