Marius Ader
Open Project
- Human Organoid System Based Therapy Discovery And Development For Age-related Macular Degeneration (joint project with Mike Karl)
PhD Positions
Recruiting Group Leaders
This is a list of currently 27 group leaders who are intending to recruit in the PhD Spring Selection 2021 and potential projects they’re offering.
Please note: this list might change during the application process (new additions or withdrawals), please check back regularly for updated information
Mareike Albert
Open Project
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Epigenetic regulation of human neurogenesis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biomedicine/Neuroscience/Genetics
Hayder Amin
Open Project
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Decoding neurogenic functional plasticity in large-scale models
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience, Biophysics, or similar disciplines / prior experience in electrophysiology, computation (optional)
Henrik Bringmann
Open Projects
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Mechanisms of sleep induction by a sleep-active neuron
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Molecular Medicine, Cell Biology -
Impact of sleep on tumor growth
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Molecular Medicine, Cell Biology
Frank Buchholz
Open Project
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Development of Genome Engineering Tools
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology, Genetics
Triantafyllos Chavakis
Open Project
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The Endothelial Metabolic Plasticity in Acute Inflammation
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, Metabolism, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine
Christian Dahmann
Open Projects
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How the interplay between actomyosin contractility and ECM shapes epithelia in Drosophila
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology/Physics -
How the genome encodes animal shape: From gene expression to cell mechanics
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology
Natalie Dye
Open Project
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Biophysical analysis of heterogeneity in human gastric cancer
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biophysics, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Medicine, Cancer Biology
Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich
Open Project
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Cytoskeletal regulation and mechanics induced by Epithelial-mesenchymal transition in cancer cells
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology, Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering
Hanno Glimm
Open Project
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Explore and overcome pre-exisiting drug resistance in personalized oncology
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology/Life Sciences with an excellent background and experience in Cellular and Molecular Biology as well as Cancer Biology
Mike Karl
Open Project
- Human Organoid System Based Therapy Discovery And Development For Age-related Macular Degeneration (joint project with Marius Ader)
Elisha Krieg
Open Projects
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Nucleic acid diagnostic assays operated by DNA nanotechnology
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Bioengineering, Molecular Biology, DNA Nanotechnology -
Engineering programmable nanomaterials based on DNA-crosslinked polymers
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science
Andreas Linkermann
Open Project
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The role of caspases in ferroptosis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology, Western Blotting, mouse models of acute kidney injury
Nikolay Ninov
Open Projects
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How cellular communities co-operate within pancreatic islets to fine-tune glucose control
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Cell and Developmental Biology -
The role of immune cells in beta-cell formation regeneration, and maintenance
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Cell and Developmental Biology
Anna Poetsch
Open Project
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Genomics of DNA repair
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Computational Biology
Helmut Schießel
Open Projects
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The physics behind epigenetic inheritance (theory and simulation project)
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Statistical Physics, Polymer Physics, Computer Simulations -
Nucleosomes as self-propelled particles (theory and simulation project)
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Statistical Physics, Computer Simulations
Mirko Schmidt
Open Project
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Novel Notch ligands in adult neurogenesis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Neurobiology, Neuroscience
Stephan Speier
Open Projects
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Engineered pseudoislets as replacement strategy for the study and treatment of diabetes
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Physiology, Cell Biology, Metabolism, Biotechnology -
Heterogeneity of islets of Langerhans as basis for intact glucose homeostasis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Physiology, Cell Biology, Metabolism, Biotechnology
Tomohisa Toda
Open Project
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Elucidating nuclear architecture underlying neural maturation and aging
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Neurobiology, Molecular Biology, Epigenetics, Computational Biology, Stem Cell Biology
Axel Voigt
Open Projects
- Tissue Mechanics
- Active Turbulence
Carsten Werner
Open Projects
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Tissue-engineering the tumour microenvironmant to improve treatment of pancreatic cancer
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology -
Understanding the biomolecular corona formation at the nano-bio interface: Toward the development of immune evasive nanoparticles
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Polymer Science, Biology, Chemistry
Maximina Yun
Open Project
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Cellular and molecular mechanisms of de novo thymus regeneration
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Immunology, Stem Cell Biology, Regeneration, Animal Models
Sebastian Zeißig
Open Project
- Microbial regulation of intestinal tumor development
PhD Spring Selection 2021
closed
video interviews with admission committee:
15–19 February 2021
interview week (virtual):
22–26 March 2021