International PhD ProgrammeResearch Topics

Cell Biology and Biophysics

Ellenberg Group - Systems biology of cell division and nuclear organisation
Häring Group - Chromosome structure and dynamics
Kaksonen Group - Dynamics of membrane trafficking
Schultz Group - Chemical cell biology

Directors' Research

Mattaj Group - The RanGTPase as a spatial regulator

Genome Biology

Furlong Group - Regulatory networks driving cell fate decisions: dissecting the logic
Krijgsveld Team - Quantitative proteomics
Merten Group -Miniaturising biology and chemistry in microfluidic systems
Steinmetz Group - Systems genetics

Structural and Computational Biology

Barabas Group - Mechanism of DNA recombination and its applications for research and therapy
Beck Group - Dissecting bacterial lifestyle and interspecies interactions with systems approaches
Bork Group - Deciphering function and evolution of biological systems
Briggs Group - Enveloped viruses and coated vesicles – cryo-electron microscopy and tomography
Carlomagno Group - Functional mechanisms of complex enzymes involved in RNA metabolism and methodology development for drug design
Gavin Group - Biomolecular networks
Gibson Team - Biological sequence analysis
Lemke Group - Structural light microscopy – single molecule spectroscopy
Müller (Christoph) Group - Molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation and epigenetics
Sachse Group - Single-particle electron cryo-microscopy of the machinery involved in abnormal protein aggregation
Schneider (Reinhard) Team - Data integration and knowledge management

EMBL Grenoble

Berger Group - Structural complexomics of eukaryotic gene expression
Cusack Group - Structural biology of RNA-protein complexes in gene expression and host-pathogen interactions
Hart Team - High-throughput protein technologies
Panne Group - Integrating signals through complex assembly
Pillai Group - Regulation of gene expression by non-coding RNAs
Schaffitzel Team - Ribosomal complexes: targeting, translocation and quality control

EMBL Hamburg

Lamzin Group - Integrative modelling for structural biology
Meijers Group - Structural biology of cell surface receptors
Müller-Dieckmann Team - X-ray crystallography
Schneider (Thomas) Group - Tools for structure determination and analysis
Svergun Group - Small-angle X-ray scattering from macromolecular solutions
Wilmanns Group - Structure and function of protein complexes in biological systems

EBI Hinxton

Apweiler Team - Protein, cheminformatics and metabolism data
Brazma Group - Functional genomics
Enright Group - Functional genomics and analysis of small RNA function
Saez-Rodriguez Group - Systems biomedicine
Thornton Group - Computational biology of proteins: structure, function and evolution