Dresden International Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Life Sciences

Physical mechanisms of unilateral cytokinesis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Physics or Biology

Optical surgical guidance for nerve-sparing tumor resection
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, biology, biomedicine, bioengineering
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Microscopic Deep Tissue Imaging in the Shortwave Infrared
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biomedicine, biophysics, bioengineering, optics

Clinical development of the designer recombinase HemRec as a universally applicable treatment strategy for β-hemoglobinopathies
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biotechnology/Genome editing

Correction of cancer mutations in cancer organoids
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biotechnology/Genome editing

The making of extracellular matrix in Drosophila
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology, Biophysics, Bioengineering

This is a joint project under the principal supervision of Christian Dahmann and co-supervision of Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

Apical extracellular matrix formation and tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila wing
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics

This is a project under the joint supervision of Yael Politi and Christian Dahmann

Active fluctuations of cell organelles and its relation to cellular metabolism
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biophysics, Biology, Physics, Bioengineering

The influence of substrate curvature on epithelial cell proliferation and orientation of cytoskeletal and extracellular fibers
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology, Bioengineering, Biophysics

The making of extracellular matrix in Drosophila
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology, Biophysics, Bioengineering

This is a joint project under the principal supervision of Christian Dahmann and co-supervision of Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

Physical principles of sarcomere self-assembly
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Physics, Mathematics, maybe: Computer Science, maybe: Quantitative Biology

Analysis of the molecular structure of the apical junctional complex using super-resolution microscopy
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology, Physics

Multimodal imaging of collagenesis and mineralization in rapidly regenerating bone tissue
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology or similar

Studying tumor organoid-ECM interactions in synthetic hydrogels with DNA-encoded functions
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: chemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, biophysics

This is a project under the joint supervision of Anna Taubenberger and Elisha Krieg

Elucidating the Structure-Function Relationship in the Silicanin Protein Family and their Roles in Diatom Silica Formation
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics, or Molecular Cell Biology

The Role of Spatiotemporal Protein Patterns in Membrane-mediated Biosilica Morphogenesis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics, or Molecular Cell Biology

Development of biodegradable organic conductive materials for responsible electronics
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: (organic) chemistry, biophysics, bioengineering, materials science, physics

The project is in the context of the DFG excellence cluster “Responsible Electronics in the Climate Change Era”.

Fabrication of electronic microdevices from soft and hydrated biomaterials
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials science

The project is in the context of ERC Consolidator Grant GELECTRO (Hydrogel Machines for Seamless Living System Interfaces)

Rationalizing DNA-protein recognition through structure- and MD-derived energy-based functional descriptors. Rational bioengineering for innovation in human genome editing
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biomedical engineering, data science, structural/computational biology and modeling of biological systems

Rationalizing DNA-protein recognition through structure- and MD-derived energy-based functional descriptors
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Computer science (strong Python programming skills, ML & NN)

Spatio-temporal transcriptional analysis of aECM formation in relation to local microstructure in the developing Drosophila wing
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics

This is a project under the joint supervision of Yael Politi and Christian Dahmann

Mapping the phase behavior of cuticular proteins
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry

This is a project under the joint supervision of Simon Alberti and Yael Politi

Enhancing Antibody Immunotherapy in Childhood Leukemia
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology

This is a project under the joint supervision of Alexander Wurm and Denis Schewe

Identification of Sex-Specific Vulnerabilities for Targeted Therapies in Cancer

This is a project under the joint supervision of Alexander Wurm and Denis Schewe

Understanding diatom biofilm formation through AI-based remote homology detection and function prediction

This is a project under the joint supervision of Michael Schroeder and Nicole Poulsen

Characterize the role of ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Mammalian cell culture, immunofluorescence
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Studying tumor organoid-ECM interactions in synthetic hydrogels with DNA-encoded functions
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: chemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, biophysics

This is a project under the joint supervision of Anna Taubenberger and Elisha Krieg

Enhancing Antibody Immunotherapy in Childhood Leukemia
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology

This is a project under the joint supervision of Alexander Wurm and Denis Schewe

Identification of Sex-Specific Vulnerabilities for Targeted Therapies in Cancer

This is a project under the joint supervision of Alexander Wurm and Denis Schewe

Dissecting subcellular metabolic gradients in mouse oocytes
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
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