Interdisciplinary Post-Doctoral Studies Approved in 2010:

1. An Integrated Biophysical Model of Phototropism in the Arabidopsis hypocotyl 
   PhD Student: Gabriella Mosca (UniBE)
   Mentors: Prof. Richard Smith (UniBE); Prof. Christian Fankhauser (UniL)
   
   
2. Detection and Prediction of Neural Structures in Fluorescence Images Using Correlative Light/Electron Microscopy
   PhD Student: Clemens Blumer (UniBS)
   Mentors: Prof. Thomas Vetter (UniBS); Dr. Thomas Oertner (FMI)
   
   
3. Ensemble Modeling of the Notch/p53 Interactions in Keratinocytes and Experimental Validation
   PhD Student: Nandy Preetam (ETHZ)
   Mentors: Prof. Heinz Koeppl (ETHZ); Prof. Gian-Paolo Dotto (UniL)
   
   
4. Imaging the Interactions Between Transcription Factors and DNA 
   PhD Student: Grégoire Pierre Jean Laporte (EPFL)
   Mentors: Prof. Demetri Psaltis (EPFL); Prof. Bart Deplancke (EPFL)
   
   
5. Metabolic Network Governing Energy Supply and Carbon Sources in Plasmodium falciparum
   PhD Student: Stepan Tymoshenko (EPFL)
   Mentors: Prof. Dominique Soldati-Favre (UniGE); Prof. Vassily Hatzimanikatis (EPFL)
   
   
6. Nanoscale Imaging of Synaptic Connectivity in the Drosophila Larva
   PhD Student: Giuseppe Scalia (UniFR)
   Mentors: Prof. Simon Sprecher (UniFR); Prof. Frank Scheffold (UniFR)
   
   
7. Quantifying the Activity Contribution of Individual Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs) to the Overall MMP Activity in the Extracellular Space Using Highly Specific and Photo-switchable Inhibitors
   PhD Student: Silvia Bellotto (EPFL)
   Mentors: Prof. Christian Heinis (EPFL); Dr. Hermann Wegner (UniBS)
   
   
8. Simultaneous Determination of Protein Levels and Their Exposure to Mechanical Stress in the Wing Imaginal Disc of Drosophila
   PhD Student: Dominik Eder (UZH)
   Mentors: Dr. Christof Aegerter (UZH); Prof. Konrad Basler (UZH)
   
   
9. Single Cell Microfluidic Imaging for Spatial Mapping and Quantification of Gene Expression in an in vivo Model of Bone Adaptation
   PhD Student: Andreas Jonathan Trüssel (ETHZ)
   Mentors: Prof. Ralph Müller (ETHZ); Prof. Petra Dittrich (ETHZ)
   
   
10. Systems Biology of Angiogenesis; Modeling of Vessel Formation in Cultured Endothelial Cells
    PhD Student: Siegrun Zinca (PSI)
    Mentors: Prof. Kurt Ballmer-Hofer (PSI); Prof. Petros Koumoutsakos (ETHZ)
    
    
11. Systems Modeling of Metabolic Networks in Polyaromatic Compound Degrading Bacteria
    PhD Student: James Stuart Clulow
    Mentors: Prof. Jan Roelof van der Meer (UniL); Prof. Vassily Hatzimanikatis (EPFL)
    
    
12. The in Silico Limb: Building a Dynamic Spatial Model for Morpho-regulatory Signaling Interactions During Vertebrate Organogenesis
    PhD Student: Erkan Ünal (UniBS)
    Mentors: Prof. Rolf Zeller (UniBS); Prof. Dagmar Iber (ETHZ)
    
    
13. Tissue Engineering of a Quantifiable 3D in vitro Human Blood Vessel Model
    PhD Student: Andrea Negro (EPFL)
    Mentors: Prof. Matthias Lutolf (EPFL); Prof. Jürgen Brugger (EPFL)

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