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PhD projects 2026

August 04, 2026

Below you will find the project proposals or research descriptions from the 2026 call. New project proposals and research descriptions for the 2027 call will be announced in autumn 2026. Doctoral projects will be available only in the recruiting groups listed below under [2027]. Stay tuned!

 

[2026] - Co-evolution of transposons and RNA processing

[2026] - Co-evolution of transposons and RNA processing

PI: Tuğçe Aktaş [more]
Endogenous retroviruses at the human embryo-maternal interface

[2026] – Endogenous retroviruses in human embryogenesis

PI: Raquel Fueyo [more]
Temperature Regulates U2af26 Alternative Splicing, modified from Preussner et al., Mol Cell (2017)

[2026] - Functional consequences of body temperature-controlled alternative splicing

PI: Florian Heyd

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The condensate killswitch prevents entry of viral capsid protein IIIa into 52K condensates. Images of human cells expressing 52K or 52K-killswitch together with IIIa fused with green fluorescent protein (GFP) are shown. Insets are zoomed-in images of condensates highlighted with yellow boxes. Dashed line highlights the cell nucleus. Scale bar: 5 µm. From Zhang et al., Nature 2025.

[2026] - Transcriptional condensates in health and disease

 PI: Denes Hnisz
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Clonal evolution of acute myeloid leukemia revealed by high-throughput single-cell genomics

[2026] - Computational frameworks to study intra-tumor heterogeneity across multiple single-cell omics technologies

PI: Katharina Jahn  [more]
Nanopore direct RNA sequencing

[2026] - Computational systems medicine and disease control

PI: Max von Kleist [more]
Dissecting long non-coding RNA function using in vivo synthetic biology

[2026] - Dissecting long non-coding RNA function using in vivo synthetic biology

PI: Stefan Mundlos [more]
Which molecular features define the interplay between 3D genome organization and epigenetic state?

[2026] - Spatial feedback between epigenetic regulation and chromatin organization

PI: Sedona Murphy [more]
Scheme of the Needle tool for RNA-Sequencing quantification on hundreds of terabytes scale

[2026] - Efficient Algorithms for Omics Data

PI: Knut Reinert [more]
Schematic illustration

[2026] - Dissecting dose-dependent transcriptional regulation through epigenome editing and synthetic biology

PI: Edda Schulz [more]
nuclear organization

[2026] – Molecular mapping of nuclear organization through quantitative nanoscale imaging

PI: Johannes Stein [more]
Scheme of the Kappa Opioid Receptor (KOR)

[2026] - Computational Design of Tailored Kappa Opioid Receptor (KOR) Modulators

PI: Gerhard Wolber [more]
Fragment-based design strategy for irreversible ligands of the viral 3Cpro.Initial hit with exit vectors into the S3 and S4 binding pockets.

[2026] - Computational, Evolutionary Design of Multi-Target Peptide Inhibitors for Respiratory Viruses

PI: Gerhard Wolber [more]

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