Research groups:
| Prof. Dr. Dorothee Dormann | Molecular Cellbiology II |
| Prof. Dr. Ralf Heermann | Microbiology |
| Prof. Dr. Edward Lemke | Synthetic Biophysics |
| Prof. Dr. Helen May-Simera | Ciliar Cellbiology |
| Prof. Dr. Eckhard Thines | Biotechnology |
| Prof. Dr. Eva Wolf | Chronobiology |
| Prof. Dr. Andreas Wachter | Molecular Plant Science |
| Prof. Dr. Uwe Wolfrum | Molecular Cellbiology |
Additional research groups:
| apl. Prof. Dr. Elmar Jaenicke | Molecular Biophysics |
| apl. Prof. Dr. Gudrun Kadereit | Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants |
| apl. Prof. Dr. Bernhard Lieb | Structural Biology |
Former faculty members:
| Prof. Dr. Harald Paulsen | Plant Biochemistry |
| Prof. Dr. Walter Stöcker | Cell- and Matrixbiology |
| Prof. Dr. Jürgen Markl | Structural Biology |
| Prof. Dr. Gottfried Unden | Microbiology and Wine Research |