Team

Life Code Comedian

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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Amino Acid Architect

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

Organisaurus Rex

Dr. Cornelius Domhan

Study Program Manager, Student Counselor, Teacher

Research Interest: Antibiotics

Hobbies: Burg Hohenrechberg, Furnologie

Mirjam Ehler

Personal Assistant

Hedwig Sauer-Gürth

Technical Assistant

Biology Lab Technician

Heidi Staudter

Technical Assistant

Research Interest: Supporting the group

Hobbies: Botany, Birding

Necromancer of Nucleotides

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

Cellular Regulatory Officer

Luca Brenker

Ph.D. Student

Research Interest: Transcriptional/Translational Regulation, CRISPR, Endogenous Sensors

Hobbies: Hiking, Cooking, Triathlon

Humble Phage Farmer

Nicholas Southern

Ph.D. Student

Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Bacteriophages, Retrons

Hobbies: Traveling, Music, Video Games

Cluster Chief Commander

Benedict Wolf

Ph.D. Student

Research Interest: ML, Protein Engineering, Computational Biology

Hobbies: Photography, Bouldering, FPV drones

Thermosensing Alchemist

Ann-Sophie Kröll

Ph.D. Student

Research Interest: Genome Editing, Protein Engineering, Protein Switches

Hobbies: Quidditch, Basketball

Pegi Shehu

Ph.D. Student

Research Interest: iPS, Protein Design & Engineering, Antibodies, Immunology

Hobbies: Reading, Singing, Coffee time, Traveling

Protein Redesign Apprentice

Paul Kittner

Master Student, MobiTech

Research Interest: ML in Protein Design, Methods Development, Computational Biology

Hobbies: Bouldering, Chess, Competitive Programming

SLURM Sorcerer

Paul Brunner

Student Intern, MoBiTech

Research Interest: Machine-learning in Protein Design, MD Simulation

Hobbies: Cycling, Video Games and Coffee

Sabines third eye

Simon Westermann

Student Intern, MoBiTech

Research Interest: Genome Editing, Protein Engineering, Protein Evolution

Hobbies: Running, Gaming

Frido Petersen

Student Intern, MoBiTech

Research Interest: Protein engineering, CRISPR

Hobbies: Watching and playing Football, enjoying a good cup of coffee

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Laura Lange

Student intern

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Georgi Georgiev

Student intern

Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Machine Learning in Drug Development, Cancer research

Hobbies: Dancing, Swimming, Gaming

Kira Hoffmann

Student Intern, MoBiTech

Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Thermal Protein Switches

Hobbies: Reading, Volleyball, Puzzles

Split protein matchmaker

Tobias Kreusel

Bachelor Student, MoBiTech

Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Computational Biology, Split Proteins

Hobbies: Hiking, Gaming

Enno Schäfer

Bachelor Student, MoBiTech

Research Interest: Protein Engineering, ML, Neuroscience

Hobbies: Roundnet, Travelling

Contestant on Dancing with the Domains

Alexa Weikert

Bachelor Student, MoBiTech

Research Interest: Protein Engineering, Protein Switches, CRISPR

Hobbies: dancing, fashion, art, coffee with friends

Lena Koch

Bachelor Student, MoBiTech

Research Interest: Protein Engineering, CRISPR, Genome Architecture

Hobbies: Reading, Art, Scuba Diving, Travel Adventures

Curious phage shepherd

Marik Müller

Bachelor Student, MoBiTech

Research Interest: Protein engineering, directed evolution, expanded genetic code

Hobbies: Hiking, Volleyball, Violin

Temperature Tinkerer’s Assistant

Nele Pascale Happ

Bachelor Student, MobiTech

Research Interest: Genome Editing, Thermal Protein Switches

Hobbies: Swimming, Hiking, Reading

Alisa Hovsepyan

Bachelor Student, MoBiTech

Research Interest: Machine Learning, Protein Engineering, Bioinformatics

Hobbies: Playing the guitar, reading, visiting classical concerts

RNA-Fold Bender

David Noé

Bachelor Student, Biomedicine & Bioinformatics UZH

Research Interest: Regulation of CRISPR, Ribozymes

Hobbies: Home-Barista, Indie-Music & Drumming, Kitesurfing, Reading

Alumni

  • Nikolas Motzkus (Intern)
  • Diana Krasnokutskaya (Pre-registration Pharmacist)
  • Marie-Louise Griebl (Intern)
  • Anna von Bachmann (Intern)
  • Nina Lemmen (Intern)
  • Cedric Marquard (B.Sc. Thesis)
  • Merlin Marquard (B.Sc. Thesis)
  • Joshua Eigenmann (Intern)
  • Felicitas Vogd (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)