PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Single Cell Analysis in Germany

A PhD position in Evolutionary Genomics is available in the group of Henrik Kaessmann at Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany. The project is part of a highly collaborative research environment at the ZMBH and is focused on major questions in the origins and molecular evolution of organs in mammals and other vertebrates. The lab’s research emphasizes the evolution of gene expression and its regulatory basis, using extensive comparative genomics resources such as single-cell RNA-seq and A...

A PhD position is available in Carmen Aguilar’s lab at the Institute of Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Germany, starting in March 2027. The project focuses on host–pathogen interactions during urinary tract infections. Researchers will use human bladder, prostate, and vaginal organoids together with single-cell RNA sequencing, microscopy, and functional genomics to investigate how pathogens interact with human tissues and to identify potential therapeutic strategies....

Master Thesis Opportunity at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH , Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology (IBG-1), in the Microscale Bioengineering research group. This thesis focuses on the development of a microfluidic system for single-cell analysis of photoautotrophic organisms . The project combines microfluidics , CAD design , chip fabrication, experimental testing, live-cell microscopy , and computer-assisted image analysis using deep learning methods. Students will contribute from t...

PhD opportunity in Bioinformatics & AML at University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Kiel, Germany. This newly funded project, LUCID-AML , is supported by the Deutsche José Carreras Leukämie-Stiftung and focuses on acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The project aims to use machine learning and bioinformatics to uncover new AML subtypes across age groups and improve understanding of leukemia development, treatment response, and clinical outcomes. The successful candidate will work with more than ...

PhD position at the University of Hohenheim in the GreenRobust Cluster of Excellence on yield stability in nutritional crop physiology . The project investigates how weather extremes and complex abiotic stress combinations affect crop yield and yield stability in long-term field trials, and how these effects relate to fertilization. The research combines field experiments , greenhouse experiments , computational analysis of long-term weather and crop growth data, statistics , transcriptomics (in...

We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational & Translational Cancer Research at TUM Klinikum rechts der Isar in Munich, Germany . The project focuses on gastroesophageal cancers and aims to understand how tumors evolve, adapt, and develop resistance during treatment. The work combines longitudinal patient samples from prospective clinical trials with cancer genomics , single-cell transcriptomics , spatial transcriptomics , and fragmentomics from cell-free DNA (cfDNA) . This postdoc si...

Heidelberg University’s Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH), Germany, is advertising a PhD position in evolutionary genomics in the group of Henrik Kaessmann . The project sits at the intersection of biology , bioinformatics , computational genomics , and experimental molecular biology . The lab studies the origins and molecular evolution of organs in mammals and other vertebrates, with a strong focus on the evolution of gene expression and its regulatory basis. Current research uses comparative...

A postdoctoral position is available immediately in the evolutionary genomics group of Henrik Kaessmann at Heidelberg University, within the Center for Molecular Biology (ZMBH). The appointment is for 3 years with a possible extension, and applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. The lab works on major questions in evolutionary genomics, especially the origins and molecular evolution of organs in mammals and other vertebrates, and the genomic changes underlying ...