Team

Group Probst 2024
2024
Group Probst 2022
2022
Group Probst 2021
2021
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

Prof. Dr.Alexander Probst

Head of Group, ChairCV

+49 201 183 7080
S05 T02 A30
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Maximiliane Ackers

Team Assistant

+49 201 183 7085
S05 T02 A27
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Staff Scientists & PostDocs

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
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Dr.Till Bornemann

Staff Scientist
Head of Bioinformatics

+49 201 183 7180
S05 T02 B16
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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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Dr.Julia Nuy

PostDoc

+49 201 183 3262
S05 T02 A24
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Dr.Sarah Esser

PostDoc

+49 201 183 3262
S05 T02 A24
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Dr.Feriel Bouderka

PostDoc

+49 201 183 7180
S05 T02 B16
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PhD Students

Julia Plewka

Internal PhD Student

+49 201 183 7180
S05 T02 B16
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Techniques:
Metagenomics | Mobilomics | Metabolic profiling

Sophie Anja Simon

Internal PhD Student

+49 201 183 6627
S05 T02 B36
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Techniques:
Nanopore sequencing | Molecular ecology | Genome-resolved metagenomics | Cultivation of aquatic microorganisms

Tom Lennard Stach

Internal PhD Student

+49 201 183 7181
S05 T02 B16
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Techniques:
Genome-resolved metagenomics, viromics | Automatization of bioinformatic pipelines | Nanopore sequencing | qPCR of Bacteria and CPR

Jörn Starke

Internal PhD Student

+49 201 183 7181
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Techniques:
Environmental Metagenomics | Viromics | DNA Stable-Isotope Probing (DNA-SIP)

Julian Künkel

Internal PhD Student

+49 201 183 7181
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Techniques:
Tool development for metagenome curation | Machine learning | Long-read sequencing | Isopod gut microbiome analyses

Hector Hugo Palomeque

External PhD Student

German Aerospace Centre
Institute of Aerospacemedicine

Katharina Siems

External PhD Student

German Aerospace Centre
Institute of Aerospacemedicine

Franca Arndt

External PhD Student

German Aerospace Centre
Institute of Aerospacemedicine

Ismael Hayani Aji

Internal PhD Student

+49 201 183 6627
S05 T02 B36
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Techniques:
Viromics | FISH | SIM | TEM | nanoSIMS | qPCR

Todd Z. DeSantis

External PhD Student

Resilent Biotics

Pengyao Zhang

Internal PhD Student

+49 201 183 7180
S05 T02 B16
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Techniques:
Nanopore | Hic-Metagenomics | Single-cell molecular microscopy

IT and Lab Assistants

Ken L. Dreger

Systems Developer

+49 201 183 4162
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Manan Shah

PhD Student

+49 201 183 2441
S05 V05 F28
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Techniques:
Metagenomics and Metabarcoding | Metatranscriptomics | Bioinformatic tool development on python, perl, javascript etc.

Sabrina Eisfeld

Technical Assistant

+49 201 183 7181
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Ines Pothmann

Technical Assistant

+49 201 183 7081
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Michelle Moll

Technical Assistant

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Students

Lea Griesdorn

Master Student

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Noel Kleber

Master Student

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Katharina Sures

Master Student

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Marie Dieckmann

Bachelor Student

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Kai Rogmann

Bachelor Student

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Jannis Becker

Student Helper

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Alina Helbrecht

Student Helper

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Lars Hermann

Student Helper

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Flora Mai

Student Helper

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Komal Preet Kaur

Student Helper

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Former Lab Members | Alumni/ae

PostDoc
Dr. Panagiotis Adam
Dr. Benjamin Meyer

PhD Students
Dr. Victoria Turzynski
Perla Abigail Figueroa-Gonzalez

Master Students
Itır Geydirici
Carrie Moore
Thomas Beesley
Adrián Fuentes
Katharina Block
Svenja Parge
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