GRAL Master 2 Scholarships 2025-2026

Call for students applications. Academic year 2025-2026

 

In the framework of the Chemistry Biology Health (CBH) Graduate School of Université Grenoble Alpes, the Grenoble Alliance for Integrated Structural and Cell Biology (GRAL) funds MSc (Master 2) research scholarships.

We seek motivated candidates who did not study for their BSc in Grenoble and are planning to:

  • attend one of the following Master programmes (2nd year MSc / Master 2 / M2) at Université Grenoble Alpes (taught in English):
  • & do a research internship in Integrated Structural & Cell Biology at one of the labs associated with the GRAL programme in Grenoble: BGE, BioSanté, IBS, LCBM, and LPCV (see list of possible projects below).

 

A maximum of 6 GRAL scholarships are offered to cover the academic year from September 2025 to June 2026, which includes 4 months of courses and 6 months of research internship for most programmes.
The amount of the scholarship is 5500 € paid in 2 instalments (4500€ in September and 1000€ in February) and an internship grant (‘gratification de stage‘) during the research internship (ca. 600€ per month).

The call is open to EU and non-EU students.

The candidates must not have studied in Grenoble for their BSc, and either have moved to Grenoble for the 1st of Master or move to Grenoble for the 2nd year of Master.

The student must apply to one of the above mentionned Master programmes at UGA and must contact the potential supervisor(s) of their research internship.

TO APPLY: the candidates must send a unique pdf file to labex-gral @ univ-grenoble-alpes . fr (e-mail subject: M2-2024-LastName) before May 19th 2025 (23:59, CET), including:

  • A cover letter indicating the selected MSc programme at Université Grenoble Alpes, and 2 choices (ranked) for the 6-month research internship project
  • A CV
  • Diplomas and copies of academic transcripts for the last 2 academic years (translated to French or English if appropriate)
  • For non-native English speakers, level of language proficiency (e.g. TOEIC, Bulats, etc.)
  • One letter of recommendation
  • E-candidate portal application number, if known

 

The applications will be evaluated by a selection committee composed of representatives of the GRAL Directory and the Master programmes.

The scholarship is conditional to the registration to one of the above programmes of the master’s degree in Biology, Plant Biology, or Health Engineering of Université Grenoble Alpes, and to the recipient maintaining a satisfactory academic record in the programme. The application and admission to a 2nd year MSc programme (M2) at Université Grenoble Alpes is fully independent of the GRAL Scholarship. Application deadlines may differ between the different programmes. See admission requirements on Université Grenoble Alpes’s website: https://formations.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/fr/catalogue-2021/master-XB/master-biologie-IAQKB0GE.html

 

Schedule:

  • Opening of the call for applications: March 2025
  • Applications must be submitted by May 19th 2025
  • Results: June 2025

 

List of research internships available for the GRAL Master 2 Research Scholarship.
Academic Year 2024-2025

A maximum of one scholarship per research group/team will be funded by GRAL.

Supervisor(s) Host lab Title of the M2 research internship
Nadia Alfaidy Biosanté PFAS exposure and its consequences on the development of the placenta Summary – Alfaidy
Elisa Migliorini & Julien Gautrot Biosanté Biomimetic polymeric brushes presenting BMPs to induce stem cells osteogenic differentiation Summary – Migliorini
Mohamed Benharouga Biosanté How C- and N-terminal tails affects PROKR1 and PROKR2 biochemical, structural and cellular behaviour Summary -Benharouga
Nicolas Ricard Biosanté Role of the ALK1-BMP pathway in the stabilization of the blood brain barrier in the central nervous system Summary – Ricard
Camille Sayou & Emmanuel Taillebourg BGE Investigating non-catalytic functions of an essential deubiquitinase Summary – Summary Sayou
Carlo Petosa IBS Deciphering bromodomain-mediated control of morphotype switching in Candida albicans – Summary Petosa
Ambroise Desfosses IBS Investigating Endogenous Cellular Filaments Using Cryo-EM of Cell Extracts – Summary Desfosses
Marjolaine Noirclerc – Savoye IBS Elucidating the role of NPM1 in HIV-1 replication: a comprehensive analysis of molecular interactions with the HIV-1 Rev protein using integrative structural biology approaches – Summary Noirclerc- Savoye
Jean-Philippe Kleman & Irina Gutsche IBS Bacterial membrane and antibiotic sensitivity: unravelling the roles and mechanisms of a chaperone triad by 3D imaging – Summary Kleman
Irina Gutsche & Oleksandr Glushonkov IBS Illuminating viral Infection by developing Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy approaches – Summary Gutsche
Hélène Malet IBS TCharacterization of Rice Hoja Blanca virus polymerase using cryo-electron microscopy and functional assays – Summary Malet
Pascal Fender & Guy Schoehn & Benoît Gallet IBS Visualization of adenoviral crystalline assemblies in the nucleus of infected cell using in-situ cryo-electron tomography – Summary Fender
Jérôme Boisbouvier IBS Development of a novel biochemical approach for the atomic-scale study of highly dynamic proteins by NMR – Summary Boisbouvier
Dominique Bourgeois & Jérémy Néri IBS Design of advanced fluorescent protein markers for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy – Summary Bourgeois
Elisabetta Boeri-Erba & Didier Gasparutto IBS Study of DNA-based architectures using mass spectrometry – Summary Boeri-Erba
Benoît Gallet & Cécile Morlot IBS In situ cryo-FIB-tomography study of coat assembly during bacterial sporulation – Summary Gallet – Morlot
Aurélien Deniaud & Jean-Philippe Kleyman LCBM Study of copper homeostasis mechanisms in pulmonary cells – Summary Deniaud
Alexandra Colin & Laurent Blanchoin LPCV Sharing limited resources between competitive actin architectures Summary – Colin
Gilles Vachon & Christel Carles LPCV Epigenetic control of flowering time by Polycomb complexes – Summary Vachon
Morgane Michaud LPCV Characterization of proteins involved in lipid remodelling during phosphate starvation in Arabidopsis thaliana – Summary Michaud
Laetitia Kurzawa LPCV Cellular actin structural adaptability with size – Summary Kurzawa