MLS Lecture series 2010/2011

Ingo Potrykus, Friday, April 16, 2010.

Darren Gilmour, EMBL, to be announced.

Müller Fellowship 2009

The Müller Fellowship consists of a one-time grant of CHF 40'000. MLS students who work in the group of a junior (non-tenured) group leader are eligible to apply. This year the fellowship was awarded to Dominique Förster (Luschnig group, Institute of Zoology, UZH) for his proposal entitled "Systematic analysis of cell behaviour in epithelial tube expansion".

ProDoc funding

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funds the Zurich Ph.D. program in Molecular Life Sciences

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Rector’s Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS) subsidize the Zurich Ph.D. Program in Molecular Life Sciences with 1,5 mill. CHF within the framework of doctoral programs (ProDoc). With this generous financial support they underline the high level of graduate education the program has achieved within the past few years.

ProDoc has a modular structure. Research modules (RM) cover the salaries and research expenses of the Ph.D. students, and complement a central training module (TM) that integrates training and management activities of the program. In 2008 the SNF awarded 18 out of 28 funding applications a training module. In addition to the TM, which Alex Hajnal handed in on behalf of the MLS, the SNF has now also decided to fund seven Ph.D. positions. This corresponds to a total support of 1,5 mill. CHF. The different research modules have been handed in by groups of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich and will sponsor Ph.D. projects in the area of quantitative cellular dynamics (Daniel Gerlich ETHZ), the identification of new host genes in cell entry of adenoviruses and bunyaviruses (Urs Greber, UZH) and the cell-cell communication during development (Alex Hajnal, UZH).