Groups in the research area Developmental Biology focus their research on:
- Host-Symbiont Interactions during evolution (Miller),
- the Biology of Aging (Pusch),
- the functional and dynamic Architecture of Chromatin during Development and Differentiation (Schöfer/Weipoltshammer),
- Ultrastructural analysis of glandular tissues of arthropods which secrete adhesives or toxins (Sombke),
- the embryo intrinsic epigenetic reprogramming that underlies Early Cell Fate Decisions in early mammalian embryogenesis (Wossidlo/Arand).