Internship Positions 2024
| Group (Institute) | Research Area Project Title(s) | Duration in weeks | Student Background |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vasileia Ismini Alexaki (TUD Medical Campus) | Neuroinflammation, metabolic disease, chronic systemic inflammation, polyamine metabolism, AZIN2, SSAT, glucocorticoid signaling, GR, microglia, astrocytes, neurons The role of polyamine metabolism in the metabolically stressed brain | 12 | Life sciences |
| Vasileia Ismini Alexaki (TUD Medical Campus) | Neuroinflammation, metabolic disease, chronic systemic inflammation, polyamine metabolism, AZIN2, SSAT, glucocorticoid signaling, GR, microglia, astrocytes, neurons The role of glucocorticoid signaling in neuroinflammation in metabolic disease | 12 | Life sciences |
| Jan Brugués (TUD PoL) | Biophysics, Cell Biology, Theory Mechanics of chromatin in cytoplasmic extracts | 12 | Physics, biology, bioengineering, theory |
| Jan Brugués (TUD PoL) | Biophysics, Cell Biology, Theory Inferring microtubule kinetics from velocity fluctuations | 12 | Physics, biology, bioengineering, theory |
| Denis Corbeil (TUD BIOTEC) | Cell Biology: Cancer, CD133, Cell division, Extracellular vesicle, Lipid droplet, Mitochondrion Characterization of a new type of extracellular vesicles released by malignant melanoma cells during cell division | 12 | Life sciences, molecular and cell biology |
| Benjamin Friedrich (TUD PoL, TUD cfaed) | Theoretical biophysics, morphogenesis, modelling, simulating, image analysis Theoretical description of pattern scaling in growing and regenerating tissues | 12 | Physics, mathematics, computer science |
| Marcus Jahnel (TUD PoL) | Biophysics, Cell Biology, Theory Measuring material properties of biomolecular condensates with optical tweezers | 12 | Life sciences or physics (any background is welcomed) |
| Marcus Jahnel (TUD PoL) | Biophysics, Cell Biology, Theory Exploring the co-evolution of disordered proteins and regulatory RNA structures | 12 | Computer science, physics, or life sciences (other backgrounds are welcomed) |
| James Sáenz (TUD B CUBE) | Synthetic biology, membrane biophysics, lipids, RNA, origin of life Resurrecting ancestral lipidomes with tuneable minimal cell membranes | 12 | Life science, engineering, computer science, medicine (any background is welcomed) |
| James Sáenz (TUD B CUBE) | Synthetic biology, membrane biophysics, lipids, RNA, origin of life Exploring the RNA-lipid world from origins to bioengineering | 12 | Life science, engineering, computer science, medicine (any background is welcomed) |
| Shervin Safavi (TUD Medical Campus) | Computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, neural data science Investigating criticality in neural systems (searching for the signatures of criticality in neural data, and/or biophysical modeling of critical networks) | 12 | Physics, mathematics, neuroscience, computer science (other backgrounds are also welcomed) |
| Shervin Safavi (TUD Medical Campus) | Computational neuroscience, systems neuroscience, neural data science Multi-scale analysis of neural data with topological data analysis (TDA) | 12 | Physics, mathematics, neuroscience, computer science (other backgrounds are also welcomed) |
| Michael Sieweke (TUD CRTD) | Immunology Analysis of the role of lipids in macrophage proliferation [→ Info PDF] | 24 | Life science, medicine, engineering |
| Michele Solimena (TUD PLID) | Molecular Cell Biology, Diabetes, Immunology Effect of inflammatory cytokines on Coxsackie virus infected pancreatic beta cells regarding biosynthesis of secretory granules and beta cell function | 12 | Life sciences |
| Charlotte Steenblock (TUD Medical Campus) | Adrenal gland, adrenal stem cells, lineage tracing, stress, sexual dimorphism Investigating the plasticity of adrenocortical progenitors during stress adaptation | 12 | Life sciences |
| Alexander Wurm (TUD Medical Campus) | Translational Oncology, Molecular Biology Deciphering the role of novel genetic dependencies in colorectal cancer | 12 | Life sciences, medicine |