Madhwesh currently pursues his PhD in Christopher Campbell’s lab, where he is working on understanding the adaptations to persistent chromosomal instability in yeast. Their initial results have revealed some exciting genomic alterations associated with the adaptions to chromosome instability, and they hope to accurately identify the relationships between aneuploidy, chromosomal missegregation and cellular viability. Merrit’s PhD project entitled “Mapping Heterogeneity in the Exit from Naïve Pluripotency” explores how single cells change their identity during a developmental cell fate transition. She is supervised by stem cell biologist Christa Bücker. Adriana performs her PhD research entitled “Linking cargo assembly and autophagosome formation in selective autophagy” in Sascha Martens’ lab. Sascha is a renowned researcher of the cell’s own waste disposal machinery termed autophagy.
The uni:docs fellowship programme offers individual scholarships which aim at financing excellent doctoral candidates. Successful fellows will be employed at the University of Vienna for a period of three years. The fellowship will provide outstanding early stage researchers with conditions that allow them to focus exclusively on their research and thus make substantial contributions to science.
The MFPL is a top-notch research and teaching institute in the molecular life sciences located in one of the most liveable cities, Vienna. We are dedicated to providing an outstanding education in molecular biology to students from all over the world. MFPL PhD selections are held twice per year in May and November.
Dissecting the turgor sensing mechanisms in the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae
Pikobodies: What does it take to bioengineer NLR immune receptor-nanobody fusions
scRNA and phylogenetics
Gene regulatory mechanisms governing human development, evolution and variation
Regulation of Cerebral Cortex Morphogenesis by Migrating Cells
Phage therapy for treating bacterial infections: a double-edged sword
Suckers and segments of the octopus arm
Using the house mouse radiation to study the rapid evolution of genes and genetic processes
CRISPR jumps ahead: mechanistic insights into CRISPR-associated transposons
SLiMs and SHelMs: Decoding how short linear and helical motifs direct PPP specificity to direct signaling
Title to be announced
Enigmatic evolutionary origin and multipotency of the neural crest cells - major drivers of vertebrate evolution
Visualising mitotic chromosomes and nuclear dynamics by correlative light and electron microscopy
Engineered nanocarriers for imaging of small proteins by CryoEM
Bacterial cell envelope homeostasis at the (post)transcriptional level
Title to be announced
Hydrologic extremes alter mechanisms and pathways of carbon export from mountainous floodplain soils
Dissecting post-transcriptional gene expression regulation in humans and viruses
Polyploidy and rediploidisation in stressful times
Prdm9 control of meiotic synapsis of homologs in intersubspecific hybrids
Title to be announced
RNA virus from museum specimens
Programmed DNA double-strand breaks during meiosis: Mechanism and evolution
Title to be announced