Mobility Fund

The exchange with international scientists and building up one's own network is crucial for early career researchers. CEPLAS supports such exchanges and offers funding for research stays in another lab, research projects or exchange programmes, e.g. with (industrial) cooperation partners or for the active participation at workshops, summer schools, etc. 

Each CEPLAS member can apply for financial support from the mobility fund. It is also possible to provide financial support for research stays of external scientists at one of the CEPLAS institutions, given that the CEPLAS project leader covers a significant proportion of the costs. In case there are more applications as funding available, priority will be given to applications of early career researchers.

More details regarding the application procedure can be found in the member’s section.

Activities supported by the CEPLAS Mobility Fund
Name Institution Aim
Kerstin Schulz University of Cologne Oxford Statistical Genomics Summer School, UK, 2022
Anastasija Plett Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf 3rd FEBS workshop on "Plant Organellar Signalling", Croatia, 2021
Mozghan Sepehri Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran 6-month research stay at the laboratory of Prof. Zuccaro, University of Cologne, Germany, 2021
Luise Brand Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research RNA‐Seq Data Analysis Workshop-Quality Control, Read Mapping, Visualization and Downstream Analyses”. Berlin, Germany, 2017
Tabea Mettler-Altmann Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf Research stay at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, USA, 2017
Esther Sundermann Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf Research stay at the Systems Biology Group of Bernhard Palsson at the University of California, USA, 2017
Stephan Wawra University of Cologne Research stay in the Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, UK, 2016
Priyanka Mishra University of Cologne “PhD School on Environmental Regulation of Plant Development” in Valencia, Spain, 2016
Francesco Tacchino University of Pavia, Italy 5-month research stay at the laboratory of Prof. Ebenhöh, University of Düsseldorf, Germany, 2016
Agatha Walla Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research International Wheat Innovation Workshop on SNP discovery and analysis using next generation technologies, Scotland, 2016
Qianwen Ge Jiliang University, China 4-month research stay at the AG Göhre, University of Düsseldorf, Germany, 2016
Kumari Billakurthi Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf Research stay in the laboratory of Prof. Tammy Sage, Canada, 2016
Franklin Villegas Paliz University of Wageningen, Netherlands 4-month research stay at the laboratory of Prof. Maria Albani, University of Cologne, Germany, 2016
Ryohei Thomas Nakano Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Research stay in the University of Bologna, Italy, 2016
Vera Göhre Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf Meeting with cooperation partners (within a financed trip), Michigan State University, USA, 2015
Armin Khonsari Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf International Summer School: „Synthetic and Systems Biology: Biology meets Engineering and Computer Science", Sicily, Italy, 2015
Suraj Sharma Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf International Summer School: „Synthetic and Systems Biology: Biology meets Engineering and Computer Science", Sicily, Italy, 2015
Elaine Jaeger University of Cologne The Sainsbury Laboratory Summer School, Norwich, UK, 2015
Henning Frerigmann University of Cologne Research stay at Prof. Dr. Kazuki Saito at RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Sicence, Yokohama, Japan, 2015
Gwendolyn Kirschner Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf Lab stay at Peter Morris, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2015
Gwendolyn Kirschner Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf Lab stay at Ikram Blilou, University of Wageningen, Netherlands, 2015
Filipa Tomé Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research International PhD School Plant Development, University of Regensburg, Germany, 2015
Mohamed Amine Hassani Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Research stay at the laboratory of Sheng-Yang He, Michigan State University, USA, 2015
Manuela Peukert University of Cologne Meeting with potential cooperation partner (within a financed trip), Sydney, Australia, 2015
Vera Göhre Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf European conference on Fungal Genetics, Seville, Spain, 2014
Thea Pick Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf Gordon research conference on “Photosynthesis – From Evolution of Fundamental Mechanisms to Radical Re‐Engineering”, USA, 2014
Meike Hüdig Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf International workshop “Ecophysiology Field Techniques“, Lisbon, Portugal, 2014
Wilma van Esse Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Conference “Cereals for Food, Feed and Fuel - Challenge for Global Improvement”, Wernigerode, Germany, 2014
Agatha Walla Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Conference “Cereals for Food, Feed and Fuel - Challenge for Global Improvement”, Wernigerode, Germany, 2014
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