Project 1:
Transcriptome changes of the endometrium in early pregnancy: local signaling effects, role of interferon tau, signaling of nuclear transfer embryos
Eckhard Wolf, Helmut Blum, Horst-Dieter Reichenbach
 

Project 2:
Proteomics-based investigations of interactions between preimplantation bovine embryos and uterine epithelial cells
Georg Arnold
 

Project 3:
Co-culture experiments for the characterisation of early embryo-maternal interaction and their disturbances after in-vitro fertilization
Marc Boelhauve, Karina Zitta, Stefan Hiendleder
 

Project 4:
Embryo-maternal Immunomodulation during early pregnancy
Susanne E. Ulbrich, Heinrich H.D. Meyer, Ralf Einspanier
 

Project 5:
Effects of co-culture with oviduct or uterine cells on morphology and gene expression of bovine pre-implantation embryos
Phase 2: Phenotyping of bovine embryos
Fred Sinowatz, Felix A. Habermann
 

Project 6:
Transcriptomics of the bovine preimplantation embryo 
Heiner Niemann, James Adjaye