Upcoming thesis defenses by PhD candidates of the GCB are announced here one week ahead of the defense date.
IRB- Institute of Research in Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine
«Characterization of selective autophagy programs in human T cell homeostasis»
Supervisors: Dr. Maurizio Molinari
Title: «PhD in Cell Biology»
Date of Thesis Defense: Monday, February 03, 2025
The thesis defenses are organised by the student and the thesis committee, as some Institutes throughout the University of Bern and the Inselspital have regulations in place for the capacity of the rooms.
IFIK, Medical Faculty
«Influence of the FUT2 Secretor status in correlation with Human Milk Oligosaccharides on the host airway microbiota and colonization duration of Streptococcus pneumoniae.»
Supervisor: : Prof. Dr. Markus Hilty,
Title: «PhD in Biomedical Sciences»
Date of Thesis Defense: Friday, January 30, 2026
DBMR, Medical Faculty
«Functional assessment of the cis-regulatory landscape of TBX5, a critical regulator of mammalian heart development and disease»
Supervisor: : Prof. Dr. Marco Osterwalder
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), Faculty of Medicine
«Innovative approaches to integrate new data sources for epidemic surveillance»
Supervisor: PD Dr. Christian Althaus
Title: «PhD in Computational Biology»
Universitätsspital Bern und Universität Bern, Abteilung für Diagnostische, Interventionelle und Pädiatrische Radiologie, Faculty of Medicine
«Simultaneous and robust multi-parameter quantification in magnetic resonance imaging»
Supervisor: : Prof. Dr. Jessica Bastiaansen,
Title: «PhD Biomedical Engineering»
Date of Thesis Defense: Thursday, January 29, 2026
DBMR, Faculty of Medicine
«Characterization of JAK2 Inhibition Failure Mechanisms and Approaches to Overcome Resistance to Therapy in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms»
Supervisor: : Prof. Dr. Sara Christina Meyer,
IBMM, Medical Faculty
«Re-engineering Biosensors from PAS domains»
Supervisor: : Prof. Dr. Thomas Max Lemmin,
Title: «MD PhD (Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy)»
Date of Thesis Defense: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
