The General Microbiology combines five different workgroups under the head of Prof. Dr. Jörg Stülke. The research mainly focuses on central metabolic pathways and their regulation in Bacillus subtilis or Escherichia coli. Besides this three workgroups concentrate on the investigation of the human pathogens Listeria monocytogenes, Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus.