IPhD Projects 2010

Following were the Interdisciplinary Post-Doctoral Studies approved in 2010:

  1. An integrated biophysical model of phototropism in the Arabidopsis hypocotyl
    PhD Student to be announced
    Mentors: Prof.  Richard Smith, University of Bern; Prof. Christian Fankhauser, University of Lausanne

  2. Detection and prediction of neural structures in fluorescence images using correlative light/electron microscopy
    PhD Student to be announced
    Mentors: Prof. Thomas Vetter , University of Basel; Dr. Thomas Oertner, Friedrich Miescher Institute

  3. Ensemble modeling of the Notch/p53 interactions in keratinocytes and experimental validation
    PhD Student to be announced
    Mentors: Dr. Heinz Wolfgang Koeppl, EPF Lausanne; Prof. Gian-Paolo Dotto, University of Lausanne

  4. Imaging the interactions between transcription factors and DNA
    PhD Student to be announced
    Mentors
    Prof. Demetri Psaltis and Prof. Bart Deplancke, EPF Lausanne

  5. Metabolic network governing energy supply and carbon sources in Plasmodium falciparum
    PhD Student to be announced
    Mentors: Prof.Dominique Soldati-Favre, University of Geneva; Prof. Vassily Hatzimanikatis, EPF Lausanne

  6. Nanoscale imaging of synaptic connectivity in the Drosophila larva
    PhD Student to be announced
    Mentors: Prof. Simon Sprecher; Prof. Frank Scheffold, University of Fribourg

  7. Quantifying the activity contribution of individual matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs)
    PhD Student to be announced
    Mentors: Prof. Christian Heinis , EPF Lausanne; Dr. Hermann Wegner, University of Basel

  8. Simultaneous determination of protein levels and their exposure to mechanical stress in the wing imaginal disc of Drosophila
    PhD Student to be announced
    Mentors: Dr. Christof Aegerter and Prof. Konrad Basler, University of Zurich

  9. Single cell microfluidic imaging for spatial mapping and quantification of gene expression in an in vivo model of bone adaptation
    PhD Student to be announced
    Mentors: Prof. Ralph Müller and Prof. Petra Dittrich, ETH Zurich

  10. Systems biology of angiogenesis; modeling of vessel formation in cultured endothelial cells
    PhD Student to be announced
    Mentors: Prof. Kurt Ballmer-Hofer, Paul Scherrer Institut; Prof. Petros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zurich

  11. Systems modeling of metabolic networks in polyaromatic compound degrading bacteria
    PhD Student to be announced
    Mentors: Jan Roelof van der Meer , University of Lausanne; Prof. Vassily Hatzimanikatis, EPF Lausanne

  12. The in silico limb: Building a dynamic spatial model for morpho-regulatory signaling interactions during vertebrate organogenesis
    PhD Student to be announced
    Mentors: Prof. Rolf Zeller, University of Basel; Prof. Dagmar Iber, ETH Zurich

  13. Tissue engineering of a quantifiable 3D in vitro human blood vessel model
    PhD Student to be announced
    Mentors: Prof. Matthias Lutolf, EPF Lausanne; Prof. Jürgen Brugger, University of Zurich