<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class=""><font color="#77bb41" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">15 PhD fellowships within the new CEPLAS Graduate School</font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">CEPLAS – The Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences is Germany’s prestigious research cluster on plant sciences. In an interdisciplinary approach CEPLAS researchers investigate the characteristics and mechanisms of complex plant traits and their impact on plant performance and adaptation. This knowledge builds a foundation for sustainable cultivation of food, feed and energy crops. </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">CEPLAS is a joint venture of the Universities of Cologne and Düsseldorf, the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and the Forschungszentrum Jülich. </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">The new CEPLAS Graduate School offers a comprehensive graduate programme covering the fields of molecular plant sciences, plant genetics, synthetic biology as well as quantitative and computational biology. The programme leads<b class=""> students with a bachelor’s degree</b> through a unique qualification phase to the PhD. <b class="">The programme starts in October 2019. Application deadline is January 31 2019!</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="https://www.ceplas.eu/en/training-careers/ceplas-graduate-school/" class="">Further information and application</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div></body></html>