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 2023 call for applications will go online on February 27.

• Project 1: Fungal life in soil: attachment and microbial communication (Prof. Dr. Erika Kothe, Dr. Katrin Krause, Prof. Dr. Jonathan Gershenzon)
• Project 2: Adapting SIRIUS and beyond for Electron Ionization fragmentation (Prof. Sebastian Böcker, Prof. Dr. Georg Pohnert)
• Project 3: Processing of olfactory and auditory cues in the insect brain (Prof. Dr. Manuela Nowotny, Dr. Silke Sachse)
• Project 4: A miRNA taming floral homeotic genes (Prof. Dr. Günter Theißen,  Dr. Lydia Gramzow, Dr. Axel Mithöfer, Prof. Dr. Jonathan Gershenzon)
• Project 5: Genetic determination and phenotypic plasticity of color polymorphisms in grasshoppers (Prof. Dr. Holger Schielzeth)
• Project 6: Structural basis of two-component system signaling (Prof. Dr. Ute Hellmich, Prof. Dr. Sarah O’Connor)
• Project 7: Give and take – substrate shuttling in microbial communities on macroalgae (Prof. Dr. Georg Pohnert, Prof. Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth)
• Project 8: Evolutionary significance of mixtures of defense chemicals in trophic interactions (Prof. Dr. Stefan Schuster, Prof. Dr. Jonathan Gershenzon)
• Project 9: The molecular basis of symbiosis establishment in beetles (Prof. Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth, Dr. Tobias Engl)