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 2024 call for applications will go online on March 4.

Project 1: Structural basis of two-component system signaling
(Prof. Dr. Ute Hellmich, Prof. Dr. Sarah O’Connor)

Project 2: The molecular basis of aphid resistance to cereal defensive compounds
(Dr. John Charles D’Auria, Dr. Grit Kunert, Prof. Dr. Jonathan Gershenzon)

Project 3: World on vibration – how ants sense vibrations
(Prof. Dr. Manuela Nowotny )

Project 4: Host effectors in symbiosis maintenance
(Dr. Tobias Engl, Dr. Roy Kirsch, Prof. Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth)

Project 5: For the love of spice - plant secondary metabolites and recruitment of bacterial metabolic networks
(Dr. Matthew Agler, Prof. Dr. Sarah O’Connor)

Project 6: Learning strategies to avoid danger in the desert ant Cataglyphis
(Dr. Markus Knaden, Dr. Yuko Ulrich)

Project 7: Molecular networks rethought
(Prof. Dr. Sebastian Böcker, Prof. Dr. Georg Pohnert)

Project 8: Disentangling multipartite symbiont and pathogenic associations in a leafhopper plant pest
(Dr. Heiko Vogel, Prof. Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth, Dr. Tobias Engl)

Project 9: A miRNA taming floral homeotic genes
(Prof. Dr. Günter Theißen, Dr. Lydia Gramzow, Prof. Dr. Jonathan Gershenzon)

Project 10: Experimentally unravelling the evolution of an intracellular symbiosis
(Prof. Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth, Dr. Tobias Engl)

Project 11: Impact of immunity on olfactory circuits in flies and ants
(Dr. Silke Sachse, Dr. Yuko Ulrich)

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