ERC Grants
The funding of pioneering basic research is one of the priorities of the European Union. To this end, the European Research Council (ERC) has been established. To receive support, research projects must have a high potential for innovation. 20 ERC grants have already been awarded to researchers from the Faculty of Life Sciences since 2009.
ERC Advanced Grants
- NEREIDES - NEutRally buoyant ParticlEs In the DEep Sea: turnover, origin and global impact on the marine carbon cycle
PI: Gerhard J. Herndl (Dep. of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology) | press release
- Disperse - Tracking the dispersal of Homo sapiens into the Levant and across wider Eurasia
PI: Thomas Higham (Dep. of Evolutionary Anthopology) | press release
- EvoNEUROMUSCLE - Unravelling the evolutionary origin, architecture, development and regulation of neuromuscular systems
PI: Ulrich Technau (Dep. Neurosciences and Developmental Biology) | press release
- ElegansBrainBodyEnvi - Mechanisms and Functions of Brain- Body- Environment Interactions in C. elegans
PI: Manuel Zimmer (Dep. of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology) | press release
- MICROCLIM - A micro-scale perspective on alpine floras under climate change. Linking observations and models to improve our understanding of the future of European high mountain plants (2020-2025)
PI: Stefan Dullinger (Dep. of Botany and Biodiversity Research) | press release
- TACK - Superphylum and Lokiarchaeota Evolution – Dissecting the Ecology and Evolution of Archaea to Elucidate the Prokaryote to Eukaryote Transition (2016-2021)
PI: Christa Schleper (Dep. of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology) | press release
- MEDEA - Microbial Ecology of the Deep Atlantic pelagic realm (2011-2016)
PI: Gerhard Herndl (Dep. of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology) | press release
- SOMACCA - The Syntax of the Mind: A Comparative Computational Approach (2009-2014)
PI: Tecumseh Fitch (Dep. of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology)
ERC Consolidator Grants
- RIFT-TO-RIM: Tracking the dispersal of humans from the African Rift to the Pacific Rim using biomolecular approaches
PI: Katerina Douka (Dep. of Evolutionary Anthropology) | press release
- CLAR - A calorimeter at atomic resolution
PI: Julien Orts (Dep. of Pharmaceutical Sciences) | press release
- RESERVOIR - Revealing evolutionary systems behind the endemic reservoirs of infectious, re-emerging diseases
PI: Verena Schünemann (Dep. of Evolutionary Anthropology - now University of Basel) | press release
ERC Starting Grants
- SHADOWS - Unveiling the Shadows: Illuminating Late Pleistocene Human-Carnivore Interactions in the Cantabrian Region of Northern Spain (2024 - )
PI: Pere Gelabert (Dep. of Evolutionary Anthropology) | press release
- MountBuzz - relating context-dependent bee-flower interactions to macroevolution (2024 - )
PI: Agnes Dellinger (Dep. of Botany and Biodversity Research)
- MicroStratDNA - Reconstructing Paleolithic Population Dynamics Using Microstratified Paleogenomics (2022 - 2027)
PI: Mareike Stahlschmidt (Dep. of Evolutionary Anthropology) | press release
- METASCALE - Modes of genome evolution during major metazoan transitions (2020 - 2025)
PI: Oleg Simakov (Dep. of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology) | press release
- Evolution of physiology: the link between Earth and Life (2018 - 2023)
PI: Filipa Sousa (Dep. of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology) | press release
- FINDER - Fossil Fingerprinting and Identification of New Denisovan remains from Pleistocene Asia (2017-2023)
PI: Katerina Douka (Dep. of Evolutionary Anthropology)
- GLYCONOISE - Emergent properties of cell surface glycosylation in cell-cell communication (2017 - 2023)
PI: Christoph Rademacher (Dep. of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- UNICODE - Evolution and Impact of Heterochromatin on a Young Drosophila Y chromosome (2016 - 2021)
PI: Qi Zhou (Dep. of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology) | press release
- ADNABIOARC - From the earliest modern humans to the onset of farming (45,000-4,500 BP): the role of climate, life-style, health, migration and selection in shaping European population history (2010 - 2015)
PI: Ron Pinhasi (Dep. of Evolutionary Anthropology)
ERC Proof of Concept Grants
- ArcHealth - Archea for Human Health (2023 - 2025)
PI: Christa Schleper (Dep. of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology) | press release