Dresden International Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Life Sciences

Exploring adhesion independent electrotaxis in cancer cells

cell biology, cell migration, microfluidics, adhesion independent migration, cancer

Buckling instabilities of the wave front in active deformable particle systems

Energy flows in collectively moving systems

Label-free imaging and spectroscopic characterization of tissue contrast in the shortwave infrared for surgical oncology applications

oncology, functional imaging, shortwave infrared, label-free, Raman, absorption-based

Modeling the dynamics of primary cilia in developing pancreatic duct networks

biophysics, network theory, image analysis, fluid dynamics, elastica, ordinary differential equations, developmental biology

project under the supervision of Yasmin Abdelghaffar

Theoretical modeling of silica pattern morphogenesis in diatoms

biomineralization, pattern formation, image analysis

project under the supervision of Francesco Leone

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Detection and Characterization of Virus-Specific T Cells from Human Peripheral Blood

adaptive immunity, virus-specific T cells, viral infections, PBMC (leukocyte) isolation, flow cytometry

Gene regulatory networks in pancreatic progenitors guiding β-cell development and maturation

pancreatic progenitors, epigenetics, EM-seq, ATAC-seq, transcriptomics, gene regulatory networks, β-cell maturation

Molecular Characterization of Diatom Biofilm Formation

bioadhesion, biological materials

The Role of Spatiotemporal Protein Patterns in Membrane-mediated Biosilica Morphogenesis

biomineralization, membrane biochemistry and biophysics, biological materials

Characterizing Proteins Involved in the Formation of Instect Cuticle In Cells and Tissues

cell biology

Wireless micro-sensors to monitor biomarkers for precise radiotherapy

wireless sensor, microrobots, biomarkers sensing, biomedical microdevices, radiation therapy, medical physics

Investigating criticality in neural systems

signatures of criticality in neural data, biophysical modeling of critical networks

Common dynamics in artificial and biological neural networks

computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence, recurrent neural network, neural data analysis

Investigating optimization-driven functional motifs in embodied deep reinforcement learning

computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence, recurrent neural network, neural data analysis, reinforcement learning

Decoding Pancreatic Islet Connectivity: A Deep Learning Characterization of Islet Innervation

machine learning, deep learning segmentation, molecular biology, diabetes, volume electron microscopy

project under the supervision of Solange Aurrecoechea Duran

Infection susceptibility in hypercortisolism

molecular biology, immunology, virology

project under the supervision of Samira Kaziakhmedova

Exploring the effect of dietary lipids on cell mechanical properties

biophysics, cell biology, cell mechanics, cell adhesion, cytoskeleton, AFM, realtime deformability cytometry