Upcoming application deadline of EPFL’s Bioengineering Doctoral program: November 1, 2024
Date de publication :
02 octobre 2024Taux d'activité :
100%- Lieu de travail :Schweiz - Westschweiz & Wallis
This page reflects PhD openings within the EDBB program to the best of our current knowledge and is constantly evolving as we are being informed of new openings and as we approach the January Hiring Days. Please do not hesitate to also contact the laboratories which interest you to find out whether they have upcoming openings.
Next PhD application deadline: November 1, 2024
The Laboratory for Biomedical Microfluidics (LBMM, www.epfl.ch/labs/lbmm) develops new approaches in antibody discovery and personalized cancer therapy.
The group is very interdisciplinary, including people with a primary training in biology, bioinformatics and engineering. Powerful technology platforms in the field of biomedicine and genomics have been developed over the past years, also leading to the establishment of two startup companies (www.veraxa.de and www.besttherapyforme.com).
Having a comprehensive microfluidic toolbox at hand (and expanding it continuously), we are now inviting applications for two projects:
- Highly multiplexed RNA-seq biomarker discovery for drug sensitivity in leukemia. Here we plan to combine our Combi-seq approach (Mathur et al., Nature Communications 2022) with single-cell phenotypic cell sorting for drug sensitivity.
- Library vs library screening of T-cells and antigen-presenting cells for novel immune oncology approaches”. Here we aim to set up a platform for screening cell pairs for affinity. The project is carried out in the context of a large Sinergia grant consortium, including several bioinformatics groups.
The Persat lab investigates mechanical regulation of bacterial infections in order to provide innovative solutions to the antibiotic resistance crisis. The lab is highly multidisciplinary, combining methodologies from physics, engineering, computation and biology.
We have one open PhD position at the interface between microbiology and computational biology to explore mechanosensing in problematic pathogens. The project will combine RNAseq measurements across a variety of bacteria with microscopy-based screens for regulators of mechanical sensing.
For more details, see web pages of the EDBB program’s potential thesis directors.