The Interfaculty Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen (IMIT) was founded in 2009, merging the Institute for Microbiology (Faculty of Science) and the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene (Faculty of Medicine). In addition, the newly established Chair for Infectious Diseases and Pediatric Immunology (University Children’s Hospital) was integrated in the new interfaculty institute. IMIT is the first institute of its kind in Germany and comprises six professorships and several junior research groups.

IMIT has six departments whose heads make up its board of directors.

From The Faculty of Science:

• Dept. Microbial Genetics, Prof Dr. Friedrich Götz
• Dept. Microbiology/Biotechnology, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wohlleben
• Dept. Microbiology/Organismic Interactions, Prof. Dr. Karl Forchhammer
• Dept. Physiological Ecology of Plants, Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Hampp

From the Faculty of Medicine:

• Dept. Clinical Infectious Diseases and Immonology, Prof. Dr. Dominik Hartl
• Dept. Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Prof. Dr. Ingo B. Autenrieth
• Dept. Cellulär and Molecular Microbiology, Prof. Dr. Andreas Peschel

IMIT is supported and evaluated by an international scientific board of advisors which convenes every other year.

Scientific Board of Advisors of IMIT

Prof. Dr. Volkmar Braun (MPI für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen)

Prof. Dr. Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt (Universität Düsseldorf)

Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Hardt (ETH, Zürich)

Prof. Dr. Dr. Jürgen Heesemann (LMU, München)

Prof. Dr. Dirk Heinz (HZI, Braunschweig)

Prof. Dr. Hauke Hennecke (ETH, Zürich)