Stakeholder Group: Youth

🎓 Master Thesis Opportunity – Antimicrobial Resistance Detection in Wastewater (029/25)

📍 Location: Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Wernigerode
🗓️ Start Date: As soon as possible
🗓️ Application Deadline: 18 May 2025
💰 Compensation: Unpaid
📌 Duration: Fixed-term (duration aligned with thesis project)

The RKI Department for Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance (FG13) is offering a master’s thesis project for students in Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Molecular Medicine or related fields.

🔬 Project Focus:
The thesis is part of an interdisciplinary research project on detecting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in wastewater. Students will work with a combination of traditional culture-based methods and modern molecular techniques, including Digital PCR (dPCR) and Whole genome and metagenome sequencing.

Read more at:  https://jobs.rki.de/SharedDocs/stellenangebote/Webs/Karriere/DE/Stellenangebote/029_25_Master_AMR_FG13.html

📩 Interested?
Contact:
PD Dr. Mohamed Abdelbary
📧 abdelbarym@rki.de
📍 Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode

🔗 A great chance to gain research experience and contribute to tackling AMR – one of the biggest public health challenges of our time!