Currently Open IMPRS Projects

The PhD projects listed below are available in the 2025 IMPRS Application Call. The IMPRS Application Call 2025 is currently closed. 

Modeling the multicellular dynamics of the suberization wavefront in Arabidopsis

This project will be supervised by Pau Formosa-Jordan at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research more

Photoreceptor-mediated inactivation of the COP1/SPA ubiquitin ligase during Arabidopsis light signal transduction

This project will be supervised by Ute Höcker at the University of Cologne more

The role of camalexin in interaction with bacteria in the root

This project will be supervised by Stanislav Kopriva at the University of Cologne more

How is the distribution of chromosomes controlled at meiosis?

This project will be supervised by Raphael Mercier at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research more

Towards realistic continuum models of plant morphogenesis
 

This project will be supervised by Hadrien Oliveri at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research more

Adaptive consequences of the evolutionary replacement of specialized metabolites
 

This project will be supervised by Markus Stetter at the University of Cologne more

Identifying genes acting downstream of the RCO homeobox gene in leaf shape diversity

This project will be supervised by Miltos Tsiantis at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research more