Lehrstuhl für Zell- und Entwicklungsbiologie

Thesis / Abschlussarbeit

Open positions for B.Sc. and M.Sc. students

Alle Abschlussarbeiten können in Englisch oder Deutsch verfasst werden. All theses can be written in English or German.

Start dates are tentative ... assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

Master Thesis: Characterisation of a novel mRNA decapping enzyme of trypanosomes

Methods: Immunoprecipitation, Molecular biology, cell culture, imaging

Supervisor: Susanne Kramer

Start: May 2018 (or later)

Send mail to: Susanne.kramer@uni-wuerzburg.de

Master Thesis: Electron cryo microscopy of trypanosome VSG

JOINT VENTURE WITH Prof. Bettina Böttcher (Dept. Biochemistry & Virchow)

Methods: Artificial membrane systems, protein purification, electron cryo microscopy

Supervisors: Nicola Jones, Bettina Böttcher & Markus Engstler

Start: Spring 2018

Send mail to: markus.engstler@uni-wuerzburg.de

Bachelor Thesis: Cloning, expression and purification of a trypanosome cell surface protein

Methods: Molecular biology, cell culture, protein purification, imaging

Supervisor: Erick Aroko, Nicola Jones & Markus Engstler

Start: January 2018

Send mail to: nicola.jones@uni-wuerzburg.de

Bachelor Thesis: Cloning and inducible expression of a trypanosome cell surface protein

Methods: Molecular biology, cell culture, imaging

Supervisor: Erick Aroko, Nicola Jones & Markus Engstler

Start: January 2018

Send mail to: nicola.jones@uni-wuerzburg.de

Bachelor Thesis: Quantitative Light-Sheet-Mikroskopie der Tsetse-Fliege

JOINT VENTURE MIT CCTB

Methoden: Computer-gestützte 3D-Bildbearbeitung

Betreuer: Philip Kollmannsberger und Markus Engstler

Start: Spring or summer 2018

Mail an: Philip.Kollmannsberger@uni-wuerzburg.de, markus.engstler@uni-wuerzburg.de

 

Master Thesis: Automated analysis of very large electron tomograms

JOINT VENTURE WITH CCTB

Methoden: Computer-gestützte 3D-Bildbearbeitung

Betreuer: Torsten Paul, Philip Kollmannsberger und Markus Engstler

Start: anytime

Send mail to: Philip.Kollmannsberger@uni-wuerzburg.de, markus.engstler@uni-wuerzburg.de

 

Bachelor Thesis: Motilitätsanalysen bei Trypanosomen in Mikrofluidik-Systemen

Methoden: Zellkultur, Mikrofluidik

Betreuer: Tim Krüger und Markus Engstler

Start: Febuary 2018

Mail an: tkrueger@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

Bachelor Thesis: Produktion von Plasmamembran-Vesikeln

Methoden: Klonierung, Zellkultur, künstliche Membranen

Betreuer: Nicola Jones, Susanne Fenz und Markus Engstler

Start: Januar 2018

Mail an: nicola.jones@uni-wuerzburg.de, susanne.fenz@uni-wuerzburg.de

 

Master Thesis: Exosomes in trypanosomes

Methods: Cloning, cell culture, SEM, TEM, SIM

Supervisor: Tim Krüger and Markus Engstler

Start: Summer 2018

Send mail to: markus.engstler@uni-wuerzburg.de

 

Master Thesis: Inducible manipulation of the trypanosome cell surface in the tsetse fly

Methods: Molecular biology, tsetse work, stereo fluorescence imaging

Supervisor: Christian Reuter, Nicola Jones & Markus Engstler

Start: summer 2018

Send mail to: nicola.jones@uni-wuerzburg.de

Master Thesis: Genetic manipulation and heterologous expression of a viral protein

Methods: Cloning, molecular biology, cell culture, imaging

Supervisor: Erick Aroko, Nicola Jones & Markus Engstler

Start: Summer 2018

Send mail to: nicola.jones@uni-wuerzburg.de

Master Thesis: Superresolution-Mikroskopie an Endosomen

Methoden: Superresolution Imaging, Elektronen-Tomography

Betreuer: Susanne Fenz, Tim Krüger and Markus Engstler

Start: Summer 2018

Mail an: tkrueger@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

Master Thesis: Manipulation of the trypanosome VSG expression site

Methods: Cloning, cell culture, imaging

Supervisor: Nicola Jones and Markus Engstler

Start: Fall 2018

Send mail to: nicola.jones@uni-wuerzburg.de, markus.engstler@uni-wuerzburg.de