Completed Collaborative Research Centres

CRC/TR 166 ReceptorLight: High-end light microscopy elucidates membrane receptor function (2015-2020)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Klaus Benndorf

CRC 950 Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa, and Europe (2011–2020)
Lead university: Hamburg
Participation of the University of Jena by: Prof. Tilman Seidensticker

CRC/TR 18 Relativistic Laser Plasma Dynamics (2004-2016)?
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Oswald Willi (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)?
Co-Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Gerhard Paulus (Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, University of Jena)

CRC/TR 7 Gravitational wave astronomy: Methods – Sources – Observation?(2003–2014)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Bernd Brügmann (Institute of Theoretical Physics)

CRC 604 Multifunctional Signalling Proteins?(2002–2009)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Reinhard Wetzker (Institute for Molecular Cell Biology)

CRC 580?Social developments after the collapse of the system. Discontinuity, tradition, and structure formation (2001–2012)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Everhard Holtmann (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg)
Co-Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Heinrich Best (Institute of Sociology, University of Jena)

CRC 482 Event Weimar–Jena. Culture around 1800?(1998–2010)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Dr Olaf Breidbach (?) (Institute for the History of Medicine, Sciences and Technology 'Ernst-Haeckel-Haus')

CRC 436 Metal-Mediated Reactions Modeled after Nature (1997–2006)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Matthias Westerhausen (Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry)

CRC 196 Physics and chemistry of optical layers (1993–2002)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Friedhelm Bechstedt (Institute of Solid State Theory and Optics)

CRC 197 Lipid organization and lipid-protein interactions in biological and model membranes (1993–2001)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr H. W. Meyer (1992–1995) und Prof. Dr Reinhard Wetzker (1996–2001) (Institute for Molecular Cell Biology)