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PhD Positions

Recruiting Group Leaders

This is a list of currently 20 group leaders who are intending to recruit in the PhD Fall 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

Catherina G. Becker

Open Projects

How do regenerating axons cross the injury site after spinal cord lesion in the zebrafish?
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Histology, Imaging
Waking sleeping giants: CSF-progenitor cell signalling in regenerative neurogenesis after spinal cord injury in the zebrafish
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Imaging

Ünal Coskun

Open Projects

Lipidomic analysis in health and disease
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Chemistry, Biochemistry
Regulation of receptor signaling by lipid-protein interactions
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Biophysics

Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

Open Project

The influence of epithelial-mesenchymal transition on cytoskeletal regulation and mitotic progression in cancer cells
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics

Anke Fuchs

Open Project

Development of off-the-shelf organ targeted T regulatory T (Treg) cell therapy
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Cell Culture, Cell Biology, Immunology

Anthony Gavalas

Open Projects

Maturation and functionality of β cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Cell or Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology, Bioengineering
Using human pluripotent stem cells to generate islet mini organs
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Cell or Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology, Bioengineering

Kaomei Guan

Open Project

Role of leptin in cardiomyocyte function under hypoxia condition
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Stem Cell Biology (iPS cells), Animal Model

Marcus Jahnel

Open Project

RNA folding in the context of biomolecular condensates
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Physical Chemistry

Nils Kröger

Open Projects

The Role of Protein Assemblies in Diatom Silica Morphogenesis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics
Genomics, proteomics and transcriptomics on calcareous dinoflagellates
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry

Henning Morawietz

Open Project

Exercise prevents impact of gestational diabetes mellitus on fetal endothelial function
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Master of Science, Expertise in Life Science, Biomedical Research

Nikolay Ninov

Open Project

Cell fate plasticity and transdifferentiation during de novo regeneration of metabolic organs
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Developmental Biology, Regenerative Medicine

Anna Poetsch

Open Projects

Using machine learning to understand the genomic distribution of mutations
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Computational Biology or related
Gene regulation via DNA damage
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology or related (the project is computational on biological data)

Natalia Rodríguez Muela

Open Project

Spinal cord organoids to understand selective neuronal loss in motor neuron diseases
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Cell Culture, Cell Biology, Biochemistry

Mirko Schmidt

Open Projects

Novel Notch ligands in cortical development
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Neuroscience
Novel Notch ligands in Alzheimer’s disease
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Neuroscience

Michele Solimena

Open Projects

Beta Cell Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes
Beta Cell Plasticity in Pregnancy

Charlotte Steenblock

Open Projects

Characterization of the interplay between metabolic disorders, the neuroendocrine stress axis and COVID-19.
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Cell and Molecular Biology
Adrenal stem cells under homeostatic and stress conditions
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Cell and Molecular Biology

Francis Stewart

Open Project

Epigenetic regulation of lineage commitment by histone 3 lysine 4 methyltransferases in mouse development, organoids and embryonic stem cells
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular biology, stem cell culture and differentiation, gene expression and transcriptomics, fluorescent microscopy.

Attila Tóth

Open Projects

Controling the position and timing of recombination initiation in mouse meiosis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Bioinformatics
Understanding how chromosome numbers are halved during gametogenesis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics

Alexander Wurm

Open Project

Understanding the epigenome-lncRNA network in cancer progression and response to epigenetic therapies
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biomedicine, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology

Sebastian Zeißig

Open Project

Immunological regulation of early-onset colorectal cancer

Yixin Zhang

Open Projects

DNA-encoded and addressable chemical library
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Chemistry
3D Bio-printing of cell-laden bio-materials
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Chemistry, Biology, Pharmacy, Engineer

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