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PhD Spring Selection 2024 – Open Projects

This is a list of currently 23 group leaders who are intending to recruit in the PhD Spring Selection 2024 and potential projects they’re offering.

Please note: this list will be constantly updated. Therefore, in your application you are welcome to include other groups of your interest.

Portrait Ellen Adams

Ellen Adams

Open Project
  • Solvent Dynamics in Biomolecular Condensates
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Physics, Physical Chemistry
Portrait Simon Alberti

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Simon Alberti

Open Projects
  • The role of onco-condensates in cancer
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell biology
    → Detailed information as PDF
  • Translation regulation by condensation
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell biology
Portrait Nadine Bernhardt

Nadine Bernhardt

Open Project
  • Establishing biomarkers of neuronal activity and behaviour in models with relevance to affective disorders
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Neuroscience
Portrait Michael Brand

Michael Brand

Open Project
  • Molecular control of regeneration of vision in zebrafish, based on available scRNAseq Data set
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology/Neurobiology/Stem cell biology/Bioinformatics/Crispr bioengineering
Portrait Jan Brugués

Jan Brugués

Open Projects
  • Biophysics of nuclear assembly
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biophysics, Cell Biology
  • Mechanics and assembly of mitotic spindles by autocatalytic microtubule waves.
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: biophysics, physics, quantitative biology.
Portrait Federico Calegari

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Federico Calegari

Open Project
  • in vivo expansion of endogenous neural stem cells to improve brain function
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Neuroscience, computational biology
Portrait Christian Dahmann

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Christian Dahmann

Open Projects
  • Biophysical properties of the extracellular matrix shaping tissues in Drosophila
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology, Biophysics, Physics
  • Gene regulatory networks guiding epithelial folding in Drosophila
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology
Portrait Stefan Diez

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Stefan Diez

Open Project
  • Bidirectional vesicle transport along microtubules
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: desired background in Biophysics, Biochemistry, Biology
Portrait Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

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Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

Open Project
Portrait Benjamin Friedrich

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Benjamin Friedrich

Open Project
  • Mathematical modeling of cilia-based flow sensing in pancreatic duct network development
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Physics, Applied Math, Computer science, Quantitative Biology
Portrait Anthony Gavalas

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Anthony Gavalas

Open Projects
  • Pancreatic islet mini organs for diabetes cell therapy
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Cell culture, Imaging, Molecular Biology
  • Pancreas progenitor cells in cancer development
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Mouse genetics, Molecular Biology, Imaging
Portrait Karsten Kretschmer

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Karsten Kretschmer

Open Projects
  • Develkopment and function of Foxp3+ regulatory T cells
  • Epigenetic control of Foxp3+ regfualtory T cell biology
Portrait Felix Müller-Planitz

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Felix Müller-Planitz

Open Projects
  • The biological functions of nucleosome remodeling factors in vivo
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular biology, genomics, bioinformatics
  • Mechanisms of nucleosome remodeling factors in vitro
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: protein biochemistry, enzymology
Portrait Anna Poetsch

Anna Poetsch

Open Project
  • The genetic code of genome instability
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Computational Biology or similar
Portrait James Sáenz

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James Sáenz

Open Project
  • Elucidating the fundamental design principles of living membranes with minimal cells
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, biophysics, cell biology, systems biology
Portrait Michael Schlierf

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Michael Schlierf

Open Project
  • Dynamics of outer membrane protein biogenesis
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: biochemistry, biophysics
Portrait Michael Sieweke

Michael Sieweke

Open Project
  • Understanding the differences of tumor cell proliferation and Stem cell self renewal
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: RREGMED or MolBio and/OR Bioinfo
Portrait Michele Solimena

Michele Solimena

Open Projects
  • Molecular and ultrastructural profiling of pancreatic islet delta cells
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular cell biology, Cell imaging
  • Computational bioscience
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Bioinformatics
Portrait Jared Sterneckert

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Jared Sterneckert

Open Projects
  • Understanding effects of ALS on the peripheral immune system and their contribution to motor neuron degeneration
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: mammalian cell culture
  • Developing a gene therapeutic for FUS-ALS
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: mammalian cell culture
    → Detailed information as PDF
Portrait Xingbo Yang

Xingbo Yang

Open Project
  • Bioenergetics of Spindle Self-Organization
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology, Physics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biomedicine, Chemical Engineering
    → Detailed information as PDF

PhD Spring Selection 2024

submit by
30 October 2023 23:59 CET (GMT+1)

video interviews with admission committee:
11–15 December 2023

For additional opportunities you might want to consider our partner program
IMPRS-CellDevoSys