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PhD projects offered - IPP summer call 2026
The IPP offers projects from participating groups located at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) and the University Medical Center Mainz (UMC). Projects are advertised under two calls – a Molecular Mechanisms call and a Molecular Biomedicine call.
Below you can find a list of group leaders offering a position in the respective calls and descriptions of the offered PhD projects. Note that not every group participating in the IPP offers a position in every call.
Cellular responses to RNA damage - Petra Beli (IMB/JGU)
Molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases - Dorothee Dormann (JGU)
Evolutionary Play in mRNA Export: Regulation, Repurposing, and Hijacking - Ulrich Hohmann (IMB)
Regulation of genomic parasites by small non-coding RNAs - René Ketting (IMB)
High Resolution Fluorescence Imaging of Protein Plasticity - Edward Lemke (JGU)
Functional consequences of errors in mitosis - Stamatis Papathanasiou (IMB)
Molecular interactions in the mammalian circadian clock - Eva Wolf (JGU)
Immunology: Defining Hallmarks of Myeloid cell Ageing on a single cell level - Johannes Mayer (UMC)
Immunology: Defining myeloid cell dynamics, poiesis and interactome on a single cell level - Johannes Mayer (UMC)
Synergizing Immune Effectors and Transcriptional Modulation for Enhanced Type-I Interferon Therapy in MPNs - Daniel Sasca (UMC)
Lineage-specific epithelial drivers of chronic intestinal inflammation - Natalia Soshnikova (UMC)
Characterization of Critical Metabolic Pathways for T-cell Subsets During Aging - Tim Sparwasser (UMC)
Analysis of antigen-presenting cells interaction with T cells across the body during central nervous system autoimmunity - Ari Waisman (UMC)
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