Team
Team
![Group Probst 2024](/imperia/md/images/probst-lab/group-ap-2024.jpg)
![Group Probst 2022](/imperia/md/images/probst-lab/group-a-probst-2022.jpg)
![Group Probst 2021](/imperia/md/images/probst-lab/group-probst-2021.jpg)
Back row: Benjamin Meyer, Sophie Simon, Thomas Beesley, Till Bornemann, Lennard Stach, Yassin Kaspareit, Ken Dreger, Panagiotis Adam, Jörn Starke, Alexander Probst; middle row: Victoria Turzynski, Indra Monsees, Ines Pothmann, Katharina Sures, Katharina Block, Lara Schmalenstroer, Selin Yalcin, Lea Griesdorn, Sarah Esser; front row: Carrie Moore, Manan Shah, André Soares, Perla Abigail Figueroa-Gonzalez
Management
Senior Scientists & PostDocs
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Dr.André Soares
Deputy Group Leader
Head of Statistics and Data Visualization
+49 201 183 3262
S05 T02 A24
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Dr.Liliana Cristina Moraru
Senior Scientist
Head of Virology and Imaging
+49 201 183 3262
S05 T02 A24
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Dr.Indra Banas
Staff Scientist
Electron Microscopy and Sample Preparation
+49 201 183 3262
S05 T02 A24
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PhD Students
Techniques:
Metagenomics | Mobilomics | Metabolic profiling
Techniques:
Nanopore sequencing | Molecular ecology | Genome-resolved metagenomics | Cultivation of aquatic microorganisms
Techniques:
Genome-resolved metagenomics, viromics | Automatization of bioinformatic pipelines | Nanopore sequencing | qPCR of Bacteria and CPR
Techniques:
Environmental Metagenomics | Viromics | DNA Stable-Isotope Probing (DNA-SIP)
Techniques:
Tool development for metagenome curation | Machine learning | Long-read sequencing | Isopod gut microbiome analyses
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Hector Hugo Palomeque
External PhD Student
German Aerospace Centre
Institute of Aerospacemedicine
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Katharina Siems
External PhD Student
German Aerospace Centre
Institute of Aerospacemedicine
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Franca Arndt
External PhD Student
German Aerospace Centre
Institute of Aerospacemedicine
Techniques:
Viromics | FISH | SIM | TEM | nanoSIMS | qPCR
IT and Lab Assistants
Techniques:
Metagenomics and Metabarcoding | Metatranscriptomics | Bioinformatic tool development on python, perl, javascript etc.
Students
Former Lab Members | Alumni
PostDoc
Dr. Panagiotis Adam
PhD Students
Dr. Victoria Turzynski
Perla Abigail Figueroa-Gonzalez
Master Students
Itır Geydirici
Carrie Moore
Thomas Beesley
Katharina Block
Christian Alexander von Hagen
Bachelor Students
Adrian Lange
Katharina Schmidt
Yassin Kasspareit
Selin Yalcin
Lara Schmalenstroer
Fabian Real
Student Helper
Dawid Krzeciesa
Interns
Katrin Schwank
Alexandre Vaz Ramos