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Doctoral projects in the research area: Cellular Biochemistry
- Analysis of the Role of Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation in DNA Repair by Mass Spectrometry
- Bacterial degradation of xenobiotic LAS-surfactants: Novel pathways, enzymes and genes
- Biochemical Studies on the Functional Regulation of DEK and XPA by Poly(ADP-Ribose)
- Cellular quality control of newly synthesized proteins
- Conformations, Dynamics and Mechanisms of Molecular Chaperones
- Dissecting the regulatory mechanisms driving early mitotic divisions in Xenopus
- Functional interplay of Ribosome-associated Chaperones and Factor
- Investigation of protein-protein-interactions with FLIM-FRET
- Structure Acquisition during Co-translational Protein-Folding
- Sulfo-Glucose Degradation in Bacteria
- Thiazolides, GSTP1 and colon cancer cell apoptosis
- Understanding the process of chromosome segregation in mammalian cells
Doctoral projects in the research area: Biomedicine
- Degeneration mechanisms in human dopaminergic neurons
- FAT10 in dendritic cell aggresome-like induced structures (DALIS)
- Identification of chemicals that modify human neurite outgrowth
- Immunoproteasome Inhibiton as a Means to Suppress Autoimmune Diseases
- Immunotherapy of hormone resistant prostate carcinoma by therapeutic vaccination with PLGA-microspheres
- New Chemistry for site-specific Ubiquitinylation of Proteins
- Regulation of and interfering with CCR7 trafficking
- Systematic evaluation of neural nanotoxicity of polymer nanoparticles in embryonic stem cell derived systems
- The role of the immunoproteasome in autoimmunity and transplant rejection
Doctoral projects in the research area: Biophysics
- Biogenesis, Structure and Function of Echinoderm Biomineralization Proteins
- Infared spectroscopic studies of protein folding mechanisms using chemical probes
- Investigation of protein-protein-interactions with FLIM-FRET
- Purification, Crystallization and X-Ray Structure Solution of Membrane Proteins
- Quantitative description of endosome movement in human cells
- Spectroscopic characterization of PolyQ aggregation processes
- Spin-label EPR on DNA Quadruplexes
- Structure Determination of Neuronal Cell Adhesion and Receptor Domains
Doctoral projects in the research area: Computational Life Science
- Active Learning of Temporal Classification Models for Dynamic Live-Cell Recordings
- Analysis and Visual Summarization of Molecular Dynamics
- Analysis of Crystallographic Data: Methods and Applications
- Computational Modeling and Experimental Investigation of the Intrinsic Pathway of Apoptosis
- Cross Model Outlier Detection for Multiple Screening Data Analysis
- Highly Accurate Parallel Algorithms for the Detection of Structural Variance in Next-Generation Sequencing Data
- Insight by Molecular Dynamics into Functional Aspects of Membrane Proteins
- Investigation of Protein and Peptide Systems with Spectroscopic Methods and Simulation
- Qualitative and Quantitative Bioinformatic Analysis of Ribosomal Profiles
Doctoral projects in the research area: Synthetic Chemistry
- Carbohydrate-Modified Surfaces for Endo- and Endo-Exo-Prostheses
- Chemical Methods for Posttranslational Protein Modification
- Directed Evolution of Klentag DNA Polymerases with Increased Selectivity
- DNA-Based Molecular Architectures
- Enzymatic Synthesis of Selenium-modified RNA by engineered RNA Polymerases
- Expanded Evolution of Programmable RNA-Recognition
- New Tools for Metabolic labelling of Poly(ADP-ribose)
- Screening for Small Molecule Effectors of Quadruplex Regulatory Sequences
- Shaping DNA Polymerases for Epigenetic Applications
- Structure and Vaccine Conjugates of α-Synuclein Oligomers Related to Parkinson’s Disease
- Structure-Based Design of Pyrrolysyl-tRNA-Synthetases for the Genetic Encoding of Extended Three-Ring Intercalators
- Unnatural Amino Acids to Study Protein Ubiquitylation