PhD projects 2025
Many of our PIs are recruiting doctoral candidates in this year's application round. Below you can find their project proposals or research descriptions. Get inspired by these to draft the research proposal for your application.
Your research proposal should be longer than the summary provided here (approximately 2-3 pages) and should show some of your own input, including a title, a short background of the topic, a research question, proposed methods and references. Moreover, we encourage you to explain how you plan to include both sides of the experimental-theoretical spectrum in your project. For instance, how could laboratory experiments help support the conclusions of your bioinformatics project? Which bioinformatics tools do you plan to include in your wet laboratory project?
![[2025] - Co-evolution of transposable element activity and host genome](/4571553/teaser-1666694817.webp?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTYwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjcyMCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoid2VicCIsIm9ial9pZCI6NDU3MTU1M30%3D--24698f4947942363051aa74ddc54cb7fb80acec6)
![[2025] - Understanding the Distribution of Mutations along Genomes](/4775128/teaser-1728212780.webp?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTYwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjcyMCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoid2VicCIsIm9ial9pZCI6NDc3NTEyOH0%3D--c4b80163790637e4c4bffaff0fc1b7c5846a222b)
![[2025] - <span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Informed machine learning for predicting gene expression</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>](/4775784/teaser-1728305926.webp?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTYwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjcyMCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoid2VicCIsIm9ial9pZCI6NDc3NTc4NH0%3D--1f6e877d48928ba7c294a7bb985436783e7d9908)
![[2025] - Chromatin regulation in stem cells and development](/3855034/original-1696838420.webp?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTYwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjcyMCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoid2VicCIsIm9ial9pZCI6Mzg1NTAzNH0%3D--908c97610f2b0232d5d3a1136c364575b5711317)
![[2025] - Transcriptional condensates](/4330849/original-1604658162.webp?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTYwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjcyMCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoid2VicCIsIm9ial9pZCI6NDMzMDg0OX0%3D--a61a1320592d89fb304b290969202dafbaccbe84)
![<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>[2025] - Building synthetic gene regulatory domains from scratch</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>](/4784252/teaser-1729581757.webp?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTYwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjcyMCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoid2VicCIsIm9ial9pZCI6NDc4NDI1Mn0%3D--432567bb2584d011d96f753f33426a2cb6d6612e)
![[2025] - Deep Learning for understanding tumor evolution](/4815391/teaser-1733993759.webp?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTYwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjcyMCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoid2VicCIsIm9ial9pZCI6NDgxNTM5MX0%3D--1c106e28c03c34ac81447337ea1e911f69a5559f)
![[2025] - Computational systems medicine and disease control](/4647871/teaser-1693827416.webp?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTYwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjcyMCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoid2VicCIsIm9ial9pZCI6NDY0Nzg3MX0%3D--268b10ce282e5db861a735a30247285e0d1897d4)
![[2025] - Evolution of primate transcription factor genes](/4331149/original-1604660902.webp?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTYwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjcyMCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoid2VicCIsIm9ial9pZCI6NDMzMTE0OX0%3D--538984374cc4b612f421434c3b2f31a9306f63fc)
![[2025] - Efficient Algorithms for Omics Data](/4775987/teaser-1728307394.webp?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTYwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjcyMCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoid2VicCIsIm9ial9pZCI6NDc3NTk4N30%3D--4910bf914e89625c7e2d01acaee00875aec3a2c4)
![<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>[2025] – Priming and memory of temperature-induced stress responses and morphogenesis: role of nuclear organization and epigenetic inheritance</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>](/4777765/teaser-1728900551.webp?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTYwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjcyMCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoid2VicCIsIm9ial9pZCI6NDc3Nzc2NX0%3D--0ed43d571f236d67935ad4d982a7c8f4958d471e)
![[2025] - Computational Design of Tailored Kappa Opioid Receptor (KOR) Modulators](/4775560/teaser-1728214766.webp?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTYwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjcyMCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoid2VicCIsIm9ial9pZCI6NDc3NTU2MH0%3D--78d5c62992d5d6f2dfd33e0b2756fcbb95a64136)
![[2025] - Computational, Evolutionary Design of Multi-Target Peptide Inhibitors for Respiratory Viruses](/4775193/teaser-1728213725.webp?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTYwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjcyMCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoid2VicCIsIm9ial9pZCI6NDc3NTE5M30%3D--c493bc7346f53a7b7d5ec9ddf7fd595983e1aee6)