Thesis proposals
The IBS hosts on average 50 PhD students who are either selected via national Doctoral Schools and International PhD programs (CEA) or financed by external grants from ANR, EU2020 and private fondations.
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The CEA offers students high-level doctoral training and IBS’s laboratories participate in this program. A diverse array of research topics is available and encompasses the following domains: environmental sciences and host-pathogen interactions, structural biology and biophysics and technologies for health and medicine.
Direct access to the IBS thesis subjects eligible for funding or cofinancing by the CEA:
- NMR studies of the role of protein disorder and dynamics in viral RNA replication machinery (SL-DRF-25-0433), contact : Martin Blackledge ;
- Nitrogenase Active Site Assembly: What Distinguishes a Nitrogenase from a Scaffold (SL-DRF-25-0267), contact : Yvain Nicolet ;
- Investigation of conformational heterogeneity and dynamics in Fluorescence Activating and Absorption-Shifting Tags (FAST) (SL-DRF-25-0456), contact : Bernhard Brutscher.
Applicants are invited to contact the researcher proposing the project directly and apply. Successful candidates will start their thesis in the fall of 2025.
Ministerial and Regional Funding
Ministerial and regional funding of PhD fellowships is also possible via the Doctoral Schools of the Université Grenoble Alpes. The IBS is affiliated with the School of Physics and the School of Chemistry and Life Sciences.
The next session for applications will take place mid 2025. Details of IBS thesis projects for 2025-2028 are currently dispatched on the Doctoral Schools’ websites:
– Doctoral School in Physics
– Doctoral School in Chemistry and Life Sciences (EDCSV)
List of EDCSV subjects:
- Structural analysis of the influenza replication complex reconstituted in vitro (details), contact : Thibaut Crepin & Hélène Malet ;
- Structural and fiunctional basis of ESCRT-III catalyzed membrane fission (details), contact : Winfried Weissenhorn ;
- Unravel structure-function relationships of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus RNPs (details), contact : Irina Gutsche ;
- Development of a novel biochemical approach for the atomic-scale study of protein post-translational modifications by NMR (details), contact : Jérôme Boisbouvier ;
- Does phage T5 form specific viral factories within its host E. coli? (details), contact : Cécile Breyton & Guy Schoehn ;
- New opportunities in fluorescent protein-based cyonanoscopy (details); contact : Virgile Adam ;
- Structure of a telomere-binding protein and its role in the poxvirus genome telomere (details), contact : Wim Burmeister & Nicolas Tarbouriech.
Candidates are able to apply to EDCSV until April 15, with pre-selection of candidates on May 6 and auditions in June.
GRAL funding
In the framework of the recently funded EUR “Grenoble Graduate School in Chemistry, Biology and Health” (CBH-EUR-GS), the LABEX-GRAL funds PhD scholarships in GRAL labs of the IRIG institute (IBS, BCI, BGE, CBM, and PCV).
Informations about the 4 IBS PhD projects selected for funding in the fall of 2025 are published here:
- Does phage T5 form specific viral factories within its host E. coli ? (details) - Contact: Cécile Breyton (IBS/M&P) & Guy Schoehn (IBS/MEM)
- Structure and role of a telomere-binding protein in the poxvirus genome telomere (details) - Contact: Wim Burmeister (IBS/VRM)
- Unravel structure-function relationships of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus RNPs (details) - Contact: Irina Gutsche (IBS/MICA) & Julien Sourimant (Inrae)
- Deciphering the dynamics of DNA repair complexes in the context of chromatin in response to DNA damage. (details) - Contact: Joanna Timmins & Pierre Caron (IBS/I2SR)
Applications are open until beginning of May (different deadline apply for the different projects). Auditions will be held on May 23.
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CBH Graduate School Funding
Information about PhD positions at IBS funded by the EUR “Grenoble Graduate School in Chemistry, Biology and Health” (CBH-EUR-GS) will be available in the spring 2025 here.
External grants
The IBS groups welcome thesis students in the context of different fundings, such as ANR funding or European funding (Marie Curie network, ERC, etc..).
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network Funding
Two PhD position funded within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) “AUREUS project: wAll teichoic acids as immUnogenic and conseRved altErnative targets for therapies versUs S. aureus” are open to applications in the Membrane and Pathogens Group (IBS/M&P) for a starting date in october 2025:
Subject 1: Investigating S. aureus Recognition by Host Receptor Proteins
Starting date: Octobre 1rst, 2025
Contact: Franck Fieschi
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Subject 2: MGL binding to S. aureus cell surface WTA/LTA by integrated structural biology
Starting date: Octobre 1rst, 2025
Contact: Cédric Laguri
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Please note that the deadline is 28 of April 2025