selected

Open Positions

PhD Program P.I./group Topic Open from

Maike Claussen, Vegetal RNA localization in Xenopus

immediately
Tomas Pieler oocytes
The diverse functions of the nuclear
Biomolecules: Structure- Volker Cordes basket and its potential role in the 5/2010
Function-Dynamics pathology of certain diseases
(2 positions)
Ribosome dynamics, translation
Marina Rodnina mechanism, rapid kinetics of protein anytime
synthesis
1. Protein dynamics in the protein
translocases of the inner
Molecular Biology of mitochondrial membrane during
Microbial, Animal and Peter Rehling precursor translocation 6/2010
Plant Cells 2. Mechanisms of chaperone
mediated assembly of mitochondrial
inner membrane protein complexes
Molecular Biology of Epigenetics – analysis of the
Microbial, Animal and Wolfgang Fischle 9/2010
biological role of histone modification
Plant Cells / Molecular
Biology of Development
and Interaction between Jörg Großhans Actin, embryogenesis 10/2010
Organisms
Mechanism of action of the circadian
Molecular Biology of clock in mammals /
Gregor Eichele anytime
Development and Regulation of brain development and
Interaction between function
Organisms Micro RNAs and germ cell
Tomas Pieler immediately
development in Xenopus
Studying the regulation of nicotinic
Molecular Physiology of
Stefan Eimer receptor sorting and transport in C. 6/2010
the Brain
elegans
Molecular Physiology of − Olfaction,
the Brain / Sensory and Detlef Schild − Single molecule dynamics, anytime
Motor Neuroscience − Artificial Nose.
Physics of Biological and
Complex Systems /
Marina Bennati Biomolecular EPR spectroscopy immediately
Biomolecules: Structure-
Function-Dynamics
Physics of Biological and Qui Van, Jörg Conformational Dynamics of the
9/2010
Complex Systems Enderlein Prion Protein

25.03.2010
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Helmut Biomolecular simulation anytime

Grubmüller (1-2 positions)

Spatio-temporal coding and

André Fiala,
imprinting in the Drosophila olfactory 6/2010
Marc Timme
system
Several open positions on various
Theoretical and topics:
Computational A: Cellular mechanisms of neuronal
Neuroscience / Physics of computation,
Biological and Complex BCCN (several B: Cooperative dynamics in network-
5/2010
Systems groups) level computation,
C: Cooperativity in cognitive
adaptation,
D: Motorsystems, neuroprosthetics,
and adaptive behavioral control
Predictive properties of modulatory
André Fiala neurons in reinforcement learning in 6/2010
Systems Neuroscience /
the fruit fly
Theoretical and
-Neural basis of visual attention,
Computational
Stefan Treue, visual motion perception,
Neuroscience immediately
Alexander Gail sensorimotor processing, and
neuroprosthetics