PhD Positions
PhD Summer Selection 2024 – Open Projects
This is a list of currently 19 group leaders who are intending to recruit in the PhD Summer 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.
Tiago Alves
Open Project
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Characterization of metabolic fluxes in macrophages at different stimulation states
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: BiochemistryThis is a joint project with Triantafyllos Chavakis
Darja Andreev
Open Project
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Unraveling the mechanistic role of heme peroxidases in the polarization of pro-resolving macrophages during inflammatory arthritis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Biology
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Nadine Bernhardt
Open Projects
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Trajectories of behaviour and brain activity correlates of socio-affective cognition under genetic risk and social stress
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Neuroscience -
Cell-type specific DDAH regulation of affective symptomatology across species
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular biology, NeuroscienceThis project will be conducted through collaboration between TUD and the King’s College London (KCL) as part of the International Research Training Group 2773 “Risks and Pathomechanisms of Affective Disorders”. Within this initiative, students will have the opportunity to obtain a joint certificate from TUD and KCL.
Stefan R. Bornstein
Open Projects
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Characterization of adrenal gland susceptibility to viral and bacterial infections
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: We seek motivated persons interested in immunology, microbiology, and translational biomedical sciences. Experience with cell culture systems and microbiology is an advantage but is not requiredThis project will be conducted through collaboration between TUD, the University of Zurich, and ETH Zurich. It is part of the International Research Training Group Metabolic and Endocrine Drivers of Infection Susceptibility (IRTG3019). Within this collaboration, students will have the opportunity to obtain a joint certificate from TUD and the universities in Zurich.
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Metabolic and immunologic influences of post-acute infection syndromes (PAISs)
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Statistical epidemiology, Molecular biology, Immunology/Infectious DiseasesThis project will be conducted through collaboration between TUD, the University of Zurich, and ETH Zurich. It is part of the International Research Training Group Metabolic and Endocrine Drivers of Infection Susceptibility (IRTG3019). Within this collaboration, students will have the opportunity to obtain a joint certificate from TUD and the universities in Zurich.
Oliver Bruns
Open Project
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Biomedical imaging beyond the visible
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, biology, biomedicine, bioengineering
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Federico Calegari
Open Project
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Decoding the computational role of adult neurogenesis in hippocampus
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Neuroscience, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science
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Triantafyllos Chavakis
Open Projects
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Characterization of metabolic fluxes in macrophages at different stimulation states
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: BiochemistryThis is a joint project with Tiago Alves.
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Regulation of adipogenesis and adipocyte fate by inflammatory signalling
→ Detailed information as PDFThis is a joint project with Peter Mirtschink. It will be conducted through collaboration between TUD, the University of Zurich, and ETH Zurich. It is part of the International Research Training Group Metabolic and Endocrine Drivers of Infection Susceptibility (IRTG3019). Within this collaboration, students will have the opportunity to obtain a joint certificate from TUD and the universities in Zurich.
Ünal Coskun
Open Project
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Structural and functional regulation of RTKs by lipid-protein interactions
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, Structural Biology
Christian Dahmann
Open Project
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From genes to shape: Molecular control of mechanical forces during tissue morphogenesis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics
Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich
Open Project
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Interaction of different cytoskeletal biopolymers in the regulation of cytoskeletal tension and cellular morphogenesis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Physics, Biological Physics, Biology
Hani Harb
Open Project
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Host-microbial crosstalk along the gut-liver axis in metabolic disease
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Microbiome, immunology and liver physiology
→ Detailed information as PDFThis project will be conducted through collaboration between TUD, the University of Zurich, and ETH Zurich. It is part of the International Research Training Group Metabolic and Endocrine Drivers of Infection Susceptibility (IRTG3019). Within this collaboration, students will have the opportunity to obtain a joint certificate from TUD and the universities in Zurich.
Nikolaos Perakakis
Open Projects
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Dietary interventions in prevention of infectious diseases
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular biology, immunology, microbiology
→ Detailed information as PDFThis project will be conducted through collaboration between TUD, the University of Zurich, and ETH Zurich. It is part of the International Research Training Group Metabolic and Endocrine Drivers of Infection Susceptibility (IRTG3019). Within this collaboration, students will have the opportunity to obtain a joint certificate from TUD and the universities in Zurich.
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Gut infection modulating glucose metabolism
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology, Immunology, microbiology
→ Detailed information as PDFThis project will be conducted through collaboration between TUD, the University of Zurich, and ETH Zurich. It is part of the International Research Training Group Metabolic and Endocrine Drivers of Infection Susceptibility (IRTG3019). Within this collaboration, students will have the opportunity to obtain a joint certificate from TUD and the universities in Zurich.
Natalia Rodríguez Muela
Open Project
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Understanding the developmental origin of neurodegenerative diseases
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Neuroscience, cell biology, molecular biology
Michele Solimena
Open Project
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Cell biology of viruses in pancreatic beta cells and type 1 diabetes
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular cell biology, membrane trafficking, virology, antigen presentationThis project will be conducted through collaboration between TUD, the University of Zurich, and ETH Zurich. It is part of the International Research Training Group Metabolic and Endocrine Drivers of Infection Susceptibility (IRTG3019). Within this collaboration, students will have the opportunity to obtain a joint certificate from TUD and the universities in Zurich.
Stephan Speier
Open Project
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In vivo maturation and resilience of stem cell derived islets after transplantation
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Cell Biology, Physiology, Medicine
Charlotte Steenblock
Open Project
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Glucocorticoids; hub between infection-susceptibility and inflammation treatment
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular biology, cell biology, or biochemistry
→ Detailed information as PDFThis project will be conducted through collaboration between TUD, the University of Zurich, and ETH Zurich. It is part of the International Research Training Group Metabolic and Endocrine Drivers of Infection Susceptibility (IRTG3019). Within this collaboration, students will have the opportunity to obtain a joint certificate from TUD and the universities in Zurich.
Anna Taubenberger
Open Projects
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Towards using tissue mechanics as prognostic tool for liver cancer- from single cells to organoids and patient-derived tissues
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biophysics, Bioengineering -
Mechanically mapping cancer cell mechanics at the micro/nanoscale using automated scanning probe microscopy
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biophysics, Bioengineering
PhD Summer Selection 2024
call is closed
interview week:
13–16 August 2024
PhD Winter Selection 2025
call opens 26 August 2024
call closes 28 October 2024
video interviews with admission committee:
9–13 December 2024
interview week:
4 – 7 February 2025
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