Master Projects
Potential Research and Master Projects available in IBC research groups are listed below:
To be eligible for a Masters project, a student should be admitted to a Masters program. Registered ETH Masters students, please use the 'details' links below with your ETH user name and password. The individual projects are described in sufficient detail to give you insights into the goals of the proposed work, and the methodologies generally used by the respective labs. For further information, please contact the laboratory group leaders. The images below are linked to the laboratory group pages.
For external students who have an interest in performing their Masters research within the Institute of Biochemistry, please contact the student advisor: Alicia Smith for more information.
This list was updated on: Sept 03, 2019
Asymmetric cell division & Cellular diversity (details) updated Feb. 2022
- Microtubule patterning in spindle positioning
- Nuclear dynamics during mitosis and ageing
- Diffusion barriers and the control of ageing
- Adaptive decision-making in budding yeast
- Eukaryotic protection against exogenous DNA
Mechanisms of cell diversity (details) updated Feb. 2022
- Cellular immunity
- Biologic consequence
- Probing for other cellular features like disease-related protein aggregates
Dynamic organization of the cell nucleus (details)
- Ribosomal biogenesis and CRISPRCas9 high-content screening
- Analysis of nuclear envelope (NE) dynamics during mitosis
- How are centrosomes positioned at the centre of the cell?
- Biochemical characterization of trans-acting factors involved in the biogenesis of ribosomal subunits
- Nuclear export of short-lived mRNAs
Regulation of cell growth and division in yeast and mammalian cells (details)
- Quantitative analysis of MAP-kinase signaling networks in space and time
- Function and regulation of selective autophagy in yeast
- Establishing a workflow for efficient multiplexed genome editing using CRISPR Cpf1. (joint project between the Peter Laboratory and the laboratory of B. Bornmann-Oxford University)
- SAturated Transposon Analysis in Yeast to map genetic interactions with proteins at ER-PM contact sites under stress conditions.(joint project between the Peter Laboratory and the laboratory of B. Bornmann-Oxford University)
The life of mRNAs: from transcription to mRNA degradation (details)
- The role of chromatin organization in transcription
- Structure and function of the nuclear pore complex
- Molecular mechanisms of mRNA degradation