Max Planck-NCBS Center on Lipid Research
Topic of the research project: Lipid Research
Names of cooperation partners (lead of the cooperation project): Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Bangalore
Project funding organisations: Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG) and NCBS
Project description
The major goal of the Center is to perform a systematic analysis of the lipidome in a set of living organisms. The aim is to deliver the lipidome of humans as well as of three main model organisms: C. elegans, Drosophila and zebrafish. The Center also investigates the lipidome of the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis.