laboratories recorded in 12 of the 16 federal states
KEY
one laboratory
vacant unit on the scale
BY REGION — GROUPED
WEST
25
SOUTH
14
EAST
13
NORTH
1
NO FACILITIES RECORDED
HB
Bremen
HH
Hamburg
RP
Rhineland-Palatinate
SH
Schleswig-Holstein
A CURATED REFERENCE DIRECTORY
№ 01
German SynBio Labs
53 labs
A curated directory of research groups advancing synthetic biology across Germany — indexed by institution, focus and method, from genetic circuits to cell-free systems.
EDITION
Vol. I — № 01
PUBLISHED
August 2026
PUBLISHER
GASB — German Assoc. for Synthetic Biology
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FIG. 02 — KEY FIGURES
REVISION 2026.08 · FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Each entry is a working laboratory with a named principal investigator and an institutional host; the figures below describe the present extent of the survey.
53
TOTAL
LABORATORIES
Active groups, each with a named principal investigator.
35
HOSTS
INSTITUTIONS
Universities, Max Planck, Helmholtz and Leibniz centres.
12
OF 16
FEDERAL STATES
Länder represented across the Federal Republic.
10
DOMAINS
FOCUS AREAS
Computational, metabolic engineering, protein engineering, bottom-up, biosensors, plant biology.
COMPILED FROM PUBLIC INSTITUTIONAL REGISTERS AND FUNDED PROJECT RECORDS
SOURCE — DFG · BMBF · HELMHOLTZ
APPENDIX C — REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION
Laboratories across the Federal Republic
FIG. 4 · PICTORIAL STATISTICS
Distribution of the 53 surveyed laboratories across the sixteen Länder. Each mark denotes one registered facility; figures reflect the 2026 survey cycle.