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Interdisciplinarity
The interdisciplinary collaboration between different scientific fields and methodologies is central to our approach. The creative cross-pollination between biology, physics, chemistry, and computer science in our program can break down walls and yield fascinating results. One formal structure that exemplifies this are our so-called "ELBE PhD Projects."
Current ELBE PhD Projects
The Center for Systems Biology Dresden supports collaborative and interdisciplinary PhD thesis projects that fit the CSBD mission: “Where computer science and physics meet biology." IMPRS-CellDevoSys PhD students may be selected for these especially creative, ground-breaking projects. A hallmark of these projects is the cross-pollination of two involved group leaders from different disciplines such as biology, physics, computer science, or chemistry, and the merging of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches. Funded projects are competitively awarded and judged to have the potential to contribute to both involved disciplines.
| Predoc | Project | Mentors |
|---|---|---|
| Abhijeet Krishna | Modeling developmental morphomechanics with interacting point defects |
Carl Modes Suzanne Eaton |
| David Gonzales | Noise and robustness in artificial cell communities |
Dora Tang Christoph Zechner |
| Chen-Ho Wang | Role and mechanisms of coupling cell adhesion to membrane scaffolds for epithelial polarization |
Alf Honigmann Ivo Sbalzarini |
| Romina Piscitello Gómez | Large-force genetically encoded viral inclusion forming magneti nanoparticles |
Suzanne Eaton Stephan Grill |
| Stephan Golfier | Building an artificial, transcriptionally active nucleus to study the coupling between mechanics and gene expression |
Jan Brugues Jochen Guck |
| Frederic Berndt | Size and orientation of mitotic spindles across developing zebrafish |
Jan Brugues Jan Huisken |
| Aksana Kirsanava | Why can some ultraconserved elements be deleted without consequences? |
Frank Buchholz Michael Hiller |
| Bjoern Langer | Discriminative motif finding to reconstruct regulatory networks |
Michael Hiller Jochen Rink |
| Alexander Mietke | Mechano-chemical models of morphogenesis on the meso-scale |
Frank Jülicher Ivo Sbalzarini |
| Iskra Yanakieva | Cytoskeletal forces driving interkinetic nuclear migration in pseudostratified neuroepithelia |
Caren Norden Guillaume Salbreux |