Internship Offers - International Max Planck Research School for Cell, Development and Systems Biology

Our student research internships last 2-3 months, during which you’ll integrate into your hosting group’s research activities. Although we call this the “summer” internship programme, it could happen anytime that suits both the successful candidate and their hosting group. Successful candidates will receive a monthly stipend of 860 Euro to support living costs in Dresden. Additionally, the IMPRS will help arrange for travel, housing and visa concerns.

Internship Project	Research Area	Duration	Student Background
Design and construction of a shiny synthetic organelle	Protein biochemistry, synthetic biology, iridosome, lipids, membrane transport proteins, crystal formation	12 weeks	Life science
Studying placenta development across species using 3D organoid culture systems	Developmental Biology, Synthetic Biology, Evolution	8-12 Weeks	Life science
Emergent continuum mechanics of epithelial monolayers Population dynamics of ecological communities with phenotypic switching in spatially varying environments	Biophysics, Continuum mechanics, Applied mathematics, Dynamical Systems	12 weeks	Mathematics Physics Engineering
Microswimmers in porous media	Soft matter, active matter, statistical physics, fluid mechanics	8-12 weeks	Physics, mathematics, engineering
On Pigmentation and Color: Form Leading to Function at the Subcellular Scale Decoding cellular communication towards organ growth	Cell biology, structural colors, vesicular trafficking, membrane dynamics, conentration gradients, morphogens, organelle size and shape	12 weeks	Life sciences; potentially chemistry, physics or computer science
Shape programability in tissue morphogenesis through geometrical-frustration-induced spontaneous strains	Morphogenesis, shape programability, tissue mechanics, geometrical frustration.	12 Weeks	Biophysics
Computer Simulations of Tissue Morphogenesis Machine Learning and Data-driven Modeling in Biology	Computer Science, Applied Mathematics	12 weeks	Computer science, physics, engineering
Investigating chromatin architecture during differentiation in the skull	Developmental biology, biophysics, stem cells, differentiation	12 weeks	Life science, physics, biophysics
Synthetic cell synthesis and characterisation	Synthetic cell synthesis and characterisation	12 weeks	Chemistry, physics, engineering, life science
Self-assembly of iPSC-derived lineage progenitors into embryo-like-structures	Developmental Biology, Synthetic biology	12 weeks	Life science Medicine Engineering