Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

IMPRS Projects in 2022

The PhD projects listed below are available in the 2022 IMPRS Application Call.

Projects labelled MPI_ will be conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany. Projects labelled UoC_ will be conducted at the University of Cologne, Germany.

MPI_A_Formosa-Jordon:
Quantitative study of the floral transition at cellular resolution

The project will be supervised by Pau Formosa-Jordon at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

MPI_B_Fulgione:
Adaptation of perennial Arabis alpina along a latitudinal gradient in Scandinavia

The project will be supervised by Andra Fulgione at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

MPI_C_Hay:
Polar lignin deposition

The project will be supervised by Angela Hay at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

MPI_D_Nakagami:
Bioluminescent Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 colonized on Marchantia thallus

The project will be supervised by Angela Hay at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

MPI_E_Tsiantis:
The role of heterochronic variation in driving morphological diversity in C. hirsuta

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

MPI_F_Tsiantis:
An interdisciplinary approach to understanding leaf development and diversity

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

MPI_G_Underwood:
Into the wild: exploring natural modifiers of meiotic recombination in Solanum pimpinellifolium

The project will be supervised by Charles J. Underwood at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

UoC_A_Kopriva:
Role of sulfur metabolites in shaping bacterial communities

The project will be supervised by Stanislav Kopriva at the University of Cologne.

UoC_B_Zuccaro:
β-glucans-triggered immunity and fungal counterstrategies in beneficial and detrimental plant-microbe interactions

The project will be supervised by Alga Zuccaro at the University of Cologne.