Team
Team
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
Staff Scientists & PostDocs
Dr.André Soares
Deputy Group Leader
Head of Statistics and Data Visualization
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Dr.Liliana Cristina Moraru
Senior Scientist
Head of Virology and Imaging
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Dr.Indra Banas
Staff Scientist
Electron Microscopy and Sample Preparation
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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
Hector Hugo Palomeque
External PhD Student
German Aerospace Centre
Institute of Aerospacemedicine
Techniques:
MGE diversity and distribution | Multi-OMICs |Long-read sequencing | Deep Biosphere | Archaea | Carbodioxyphiles | Archaean Park
Franca Arndt
External PhD Student
German Aerospace Centre
Institute of Aerospacemedicine
Techniques:
Viromics | FISH | SIM | TEM | nanoSIMS | qPCR
Todd Z. DeSantis
External PhD Student
Resilent Biotics
Techniques:
Nanopore | Hic-Metagenomics | Single-cell molecular microscopy
IT and Lab Assistants
Techniques:
Metagenomics and Metabarcoding | Metatranscriptomics | Bioinformatic tool development on python, perl, javascript etc.
Students
Former Lab Members | Alumni/ae
PostDocs
Dr. Panagiotis Adam
Dr. Benjamin Meyer
PhD Students
Dr. Victoria Turzynski
Perla Abigail Figueroa-Gonzalez
Katharina Siems
Master Students
Itır Geydirici
Carrie Moore
Thomas Beesley
Adrián Fuentes
Katharina Block
Svenja Parge
Christian Alexander von Hagen
Bachelor Students
Komal Preet Kaur
Adrian Lange
Katharina Schmidt
Yassin Kasspareit
Selin Yalcin
Lara Schmalenstroer
Fabian Real
Student Helpers
Dawid Krzeciesa
Interns
Katrin Schwank
Alexandre Vaz Ramos
Adminstrative Personal
Maximiliane Ackers