PhD projects 2025

Below you can find project proposals or research descriptions for the last call in 2025. New projects for 2026 will be announced in autumn 2025. Stay tuned!

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

PI: Tuğçe Aktaş [more]

[2025] - Understanding the Distribution of Mutations along Genomes

PI: Peter Arndt [more]

[2025] - Informed machine learning for predicting gene expression

PI: Katharina Baum  [more]

[2025] - Chromatin regulation in stem cells and development

PI: Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu [more]

[2025] - Transcriptional condensates

 PI: Denes Hnisz
[more]

[2025] - Building synthetic gene regulatory domains from scratch

PI: Daniel Ibrahim [more]

[2025] - Deep Learning for understanding tumor evolution

PI: Katharina Jahn  [more]

[2025] - Computational systems medicine and disease control

PI: Max von Kleist [more]

[2025] - Evolution of primate transcription factor genes

PI: Katja Nowick [more]

[2025] - Efficient Algorithms for Omics Data

PI: Knut Reinert [more]

[2025] – Priming and memory of temperature-induced stress responses and morphogenesis: role of nuclear organization and epigenetic inheritance

PI: Daniel Schubert [more]

[2025] - Computational Design of Tailored Kappa Opioid Receptor (KOR) Modulators

PI: Gerhard Wolber [more]

[2025] - Computational, Evolutionary Design of Multi-Target Peptide Inhibitors for Respiratory Viruses

PI: Gerhard Wolber [more]