Under the auspices of the University of Tübingen, approximately 100 students from all over the world are working on their PhDs at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory. Here, they profit from an interdisciplinary environment and first-rate scientific resources. Dedicated support and educational programs foster the scientific growth of doctoral students. The program offers cutting edge training in

Bioinformatics Structural Biology Plant & Animal Development

Molecular & Cellular Biology/ Biochemistry Developmental & Quantitative Genetics Evolutionary Biology & Ecological Genetics

News

• The online application system will reopen in September to accept applications for Spring 2013 admission with interviews in December 2012.
• If you have already selected a potential PhD advisor and fulfill the eligibility requiremements, you are welcome to apply at any time directly to the faculty member of your choice by sending an email with your CV.
• Congratulations to the prize winners from our last PhD Symposium. Visit our picture gallery.
• Two former students from our program have recently been awarded prizes for their PhD projects: Marco Todesco from Detlef Weigel's group received the Wilhelm-Pfeffer-Preis of the German Botanical Society, Felix Tritschler from Elisa Izaurralde's group received the Promotionspreis of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Basic information about the program can be found here. For a research profile of our institutes, please browse through our Scientific Overview.