Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
By using model plants such as rice, moss or mouse-ear cress, the Research Training Group " Signal Systems in Plant Model Organisms" will analyse regulation and signal systems that are crucial for a plant's development. The project managers first recruit interested students via placements. The selected doctoral students of biology and bioinformatics not only benefit from being part of the "BioValley Network", a research association that includes the universities of Freiburg, Strasbourg and Basel, but also from international contacts of their leading scientists. Conference travel and laboratory stays in cooperation with universities in the Netherlands, South Africa, Hungary and the United States are planned in order to enhance the interdisciplinary and intercultural skills of the junior scientists.
Hannover Medical College / Karolinska Institute, Sweden
The International Research Training Group "Strategies of Human Pathogens in the Process of Causing Acute and Chronic Infection" is a joint project of Hannover Medical College, Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the Society for Biotechnological Research in Braunschweig. Scientists are primarily interested in investigating the problem of persistency of pathogens in infections and finding solutions both through theoretical and clinically oriented projects. Possible topics for doctoral dissertations range from the biochemical composition of pathogens to their genetic variation and to the so-called escape mechanisms, which are used by pathogens to avoid the human immune system. Besides working on their dissertation, the German and Swedish doctoral students will participate in laboratory courses, summer schools, seminars on presentation techniques and rhetoric as well as lectures in both their host countries and their countries of origin.
The new Research Training Groups in detail
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Contact: Dr. Jutta Rateike
jutta.rateike@dfg.de
49-228-885-2665
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
28-Dec-2005