Collaborations:

DNA repair

Glycosylases: Alexander C. Drohat, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

Nucleotide Excision Repair: Caroline Kisker, Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Germany; Ben van Houten, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

O6-Alkylguanine Alkyltransferase: Michael G. Fried, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA; David Williams, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, UK

AFM and technological advances

DNA replication: Anna Szambowska, Helmut Pospiech and Frank Grosse, Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany; Heinz Peter Nasheuer, University of Galway, Ireland

Epigenetics: Albert Jeltsch, Institute of Biochemistry and Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Computational analysis: Katrin Heinze, Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Germany; LUMICKS B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Chemical analysis: Elspeth Garman, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK

Nanobiotechnology: Hong Wang, Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

Neuroreceptor anchoring proteins: Hermann Schindelin, Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Germany

Deubiquitinases: Caroline Kisker, Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Germany

Functional materials: Jürgen Groll and Paul D. Dalton, Department for Functional Materials in Medicine and Dentistry, University of Würzburg, Germany