<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="" face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">15 PhD fellowships within the CEPLAS Graduate School</font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial" class="">In CEPLAS – The Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences researchers investigate in an interdisciplinary approach 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. </font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial" class="">CEPLAS is a joint venture of the Universities of Cologne and Düsseldorf, the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and the Forschungszentrum Jülich. </font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial" class="">The CEPLAS Graduate School offers a comprehensive graduate program 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 program starts in October 2021. </b></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">Application deadline </b></font><b class="" style="font-family: Arial;">is November 30, 2021.</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;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div></body></html>