Available PhD Projects

The location of the PhD project depends on the advisor and is noted in the project description. Advisors may be located at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory or the University of Tübingen.

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Application deadline 27 January 2025

Behavior and physiology of C. elegans responding to fungal predators

Advisor: Yen-Ping Hsueh [more]

Genomic analyses of carnivorous fungi to study the evolution of predation in the fungal kingdom

Advisor: Yen-Ping Hsueh [more]

Investigating Limb Regeneration in a Dish

Advisor: Can Aztekin [more]

Molecular mechanism of prey-sensing and trap development in the nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora

Advisor: Yen-Ping Hsueh [more]

Novel proteins that affect Salmonella virulence

Advisor: Yu-Chu Chang [more]

SARCOTAC - Targeted Protein Degradation in the Heart

Advisor: Marcus Hartmann [more]

Seaweed mating rituals: investigating sex-related proteins using algae as models

Advisor: Susana Coelho [more]

Study membrane protein folding in the native bilayer environments

Advisor: Yu-Chu Chang [more]

The evolution and development of toxocyst in the Pleurotus mushrooms

Advisor: Yen-Ping Hsueh [more]

Understanding the self-organization of prokaryotic protein systems

Advisor: Beatrice Ramm [more]

Visualizing the spatiotemporal dynamics and regulation of extracellular proteases

Advisor: Beatrice Ramm [more]

De novo design of cytokine receptor binders from hetero-chiral building blocks

Advisor: Mohammad ElGamacy & Andrei Lupas [more]

Immunity islands in plant genomes

Advisor: Gal Ofir [more]

Transgenerational inheritance in P. pacificus

Advisor: Ralf Sommer [more]

Understanding cell differentiation at single cell resolution

Advisor: Marja Timmermans [more]

miRNAs as mobile signals in development

Advisor: Marja Timmermans [more]

High resolution tracking of kinesin motors

Advisor: Erik Schäffer [more]

The dynamics of intra-species gene birth in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus

Advisor: Christian Rödelsperger [more]

Mode of action analysis of new antibacterial natural products

Advisor: Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt [more]