Advertised Projects in Current Call
Please find an overview of projects advertised in the current IMPRS application call here. For detailed descriptions and candidate profiles, please visit the individual project pages. The 2025 call for applications will go online on March 12.
Project 1: With six feet on the ground – How insects sense vibration
(Prof. Dr. Manuela Nowotny, Dr. Yuko Ulrich )
Project 2: Molecular mechanisms of membrane proteins underlying social insect behavior
(Prof. Dr. Ute Hellmich, Dr. Yuko Ulrich)
Project 3: Structural basis of two-component system signaling
(Prof. Dr. Ute Hellmich, Prof. Dr. Sarah O’Connor)
Project 4: Sensing the unseen: How diatoms detect and respond to highly dilute sex-inducing pheromones
(Prof. Dr. Georg Pohnert, Dr. Markus Knaden)
Project 5: Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis
(Dr. Mariana Galvão Ferrarini, Prof. Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth, Dr. Tobias Engl)
Project 6: A miRNA taming floral homeotic genes
(Prof. Dr. Günter Theißen,, Dr. Roy Kirsch)
Project 7: Plant secondary metabolites and the barley microbiome
(Dr. Matthew Agler, Dr. John Charles D’Auria)
Project 8: Molecular mechanisms of adaptation and counter-adaptation between Brassica and beetles
(Prof. Nicole van Dam, Dr. Franziska Beran)