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Team
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Prof. Dr. Dominik Niopek
Professor & Head of Department
Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Synthetic Biology, CRISPR
Hobbies: Hiking, Reading, Annoying neighbors by playing drums
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Dr. Jan Mathony
Junior Group Leader
Research Interest: Switchable Proteins, Allostery, CRISPR
Hobbies: Hiking, Photography, Music
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Dr. Holger Schäfer
Student Counselor, Teacher
Research Interest: Molecular and cell biology
Hobbies: Watching movies in an oldfashioned theatre, Listening to baseball broadcasts (Go Giants), Death Valley hiking
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Dr. Cornelius Domhan
Study Program Manager, Student Counselor, Teacher
Research Interest: Antibiotics
Hobbies: Burg Hohenrechberg, Furnologie
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Petra Fellhauer
Personal Assistant
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Hedwig Sauer-Gürth
Technical Assistant
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Heidi Staudter
Technical Assistant
Research Interest: Supporting the group
Hobbies: Botany, Birding
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Sabine Aschenbrenner
Technical Assistant
Research Interest: Launching into a cosmic odyssey, where experimentation becomes an art form, sculpted through the eternal dance of time and quality optimization
Hobbies: Elder Scrolls Online
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Luca Brenker
Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: Transcriptional/Translational Regulation, CRISPR, Endogenous Sensors
Hobbies: Hiking, Cooking, Triathlon
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Nicholas Southern
Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Bacteriophages, Retrons
Hobbies: Traveling, Music, Video Games
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Benedict Wolf
Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: ML, Protein Engineering, Computational Biology
Hobbies: Photography, Bouldering, FPV drones
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Ann-Sophie Kröll
Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: Genome Editing, Protein Engineering, Protein Switches
Hobbies: Quidditch, Basketball
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Pegi Shehu
Master Student, Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interest: Protein Design & Engineering, Antibodies, Immunology
Hobbies: Reading, Singing, Coffee time, Traveling
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Paul Kittner
Master Student, MobiTech
Research Interest: Designing the smallest of machinery to fulfill the grand dreams from tomorrow.
Hobbies: Bouldering, Chess, Competitive Programming
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Simon Westermann
Bachelor Student, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Genome Editing, Protein Engineering, Protein Evolution
Hobbies: Running, Gaming
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Frido Petersen
Bachelor Student, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Protein engineering, CRISPR
Hobbies: Watching and playing Football, enjoying a good cup of coffee
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Nele Pascale Happ
Bachelor Student, MobiTech
Research Interest: Genome Editing, Thermal Protein Switches
Hobbies: Swimming, Hiking, Books
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Alisa Hovsepyan
Bachelor Student, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Machine Learning, Protein Engineering, Bioinformatics
Hobbies: Playing the guitar, reading, visiting classical concerts
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Merlin Marquard
Bachelor Student, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Protein engineering, phage-assisted evolution, protein switching behaviour
Hobbies: Drumming, orchestral composing; reading, creative writing, bouldering, wrestling, MMA, calisthenics, snowboarding; coffee head
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Cedric Marquard
Bachelor Student, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Phage-Assisted Evolution, Protein Engineering
Hobbies: Bouldering, Ballroom and Latin Dance, Drumming, Yoga
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Kira Hoffmann
Bachelor Student, MoBiTech
Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Thermal Protein Switches
Hobbies: Reading, Volleyball, Puzzles
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David Noé
Bachelor Student, Biomedicine & Bioinformatics UZH
Research Interest: Regulation of CRISPR, Ribozymes
Hobbies: Home-Barista, Indie-Music & Drumming, Kitesurfing, Reading
Alumni
- Joshua Eigenmann (Intern)
- Dr. Pinku Sarmah (Post-doc)
- Kaloyan Staykov (Pre-registration Pharmacist)
- Dustin Schilling (Intern)
- Michelle Emmert (Intern)
- Lennart Dignas (Intern)
- Dario Andrea Prifti (HiWi)
- Stefanie Grosse (Post-doc)
- Mareike D. Hoffmann (PhD student)
- Philipp Münch (B.Sc. thesis, M.Sc. thesis)
- Philipp Becker (B.Sc. thesis)
- Melis Kazandöven (B.Sc. thesis)
- Klara Eisenhauer (Intern)
- Jan Birkel (B.Sc. thesis)
- Janus Kröner (B.Sc. thesis, Biomol. engineering, TU Darmstadt)
- Tobias Stadelmann (B.Sc. thesis)
- Dustin Zielinski (B.Sc. thesis)
- Felix Bubeck (M.Sc. thesis)
- Niklas Urbanek (B.Sc. thesis)
- Michael Jendrusch (M.Sc. thesis)
- Daniel Heid (M.Sc. thesis)
- Stefan Holderbach (Intern)
- Adrian Huck (Intern)
- Andreas Bietz (M.Sc. thesis)
- Hendrik Landerer (M.Sc. thesis)
- Christina Stengl (Intern)
- Thore Bürgel (Intern)
- Judith Notbohm (Intern)
- Julia Botta (B.Sc. thesis)
- Stefanie Reisenauer (Intern)
- Laura Dietz (Intern)
- Manuel Mastel (Intern)
- Sara Dionisi (Intern)
- Max Waldhauer (Intern)
- Clarissa Schäfer (HiWi)
- Carolin Gebhardt (PhD Student)
- Alexander Pattberg (M.Sc. Thesis)
- Jan Kalkowski (Intern)
- Luis Hauptmann (B.Sc. thesis)
- Juliane Rohland (Intern)
- Maximilian Fidlin (HiWi)