Team
Team
Left to Right: Flora, Ines, Sabrina, Julia N, Linda, Pengyao, Indra, Sophie, Franca, Kai, Lea, Alina, Manan, Cristina, Julian, Feriel, Marie, Lennard, Ismael, Kerem, Jörn, Till, André, Alex
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
Leadership and coordination
Dr.André Soares
Deputy Group Leader
Head of Statistics and Data Visualization
+49 201 183 3262
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Dr.Liliana Cristina Moraru
Senior Scientist
Head of Virology and Imaging
+49 201 183 3262
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Dr.Indra Banas
Staff Scientist
Electron Microscopy and Sample Preparation
+49 201 183 3262
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Technical & infrastructure team
Postdoctoral and doctoral researchers
Project: IQ-Wasser | BioStabil
Organismal Groups: Bacteria, Archea, Viruses
Techniques: Metagenomics | Molecular Techniques | Functional Genomics
Project: Archean Park
Organismal Groups: Bacteria, Archea, Viruses
Techniques: Metagenomics | Phylogenetics | Multi-omics intergration | Cultivation
Project: CRC-RESIST
Organismal Groups: Bacteria, Archea, Protists
Techniques: Bioinformatics | Metagenomics | Functional Genomics
Project: EMERGE
Organismal Groups: Bacteria, Archea, Viruses
Techniques: Metagenomics | Mobilomics | Functional Genomics
Project: EMERGE
Organismal Groups: Bacteria, Archea, Viruses
Techniques: Metagenomics | Mobilomics | Functional Genomics
Project: MultiKulti
Organismal Groups: Bacteria, Archea
Techniques: Long-read sequencing | Cultivation & Isolation | Metagenomics
Project: CRC-RESIST
Organismal Groups: Viruses, Bacteria
Techniques: Metagenomics | Bioinformatics | Mesocosm & Experimental Systems
Project: GENIAL
Organismal Groups: Protists, Bacteria, Archea
Techniques: Bioinformatics | Metagenomics | Advanced Microscopy
Project: DeepH
Organismal Groups: Viruses, Bacteria, Archea
Techniques: Metagenomics | Molecular Techniques | Hi-C | Mobilomics
Project: Archean Park
Organismal Groups: Viruses, Bacteria, Archea
Techniques: Metagenomics | Multi-Omics Integration | Long-read sequencing
Project: SPP2230
Organismal Groups: Viruses, Bacteria
Techniques: Functional Genomics | FISH | Advanced Microscopy | Cultivation & Isolation
Project: CRC-RESIST
Organismal Groups: Viruses, Bacteria, Archea, Protists
Techniques: Quantitative metagenomics | Transcriptomics | Mobilomics
Project: CRC-RESIST
Organismal Groups: Viruses, Bacteria
Techniques: Metagenomics | Mesocosm & Experimental Systems | Bioinformatics
Todd Z. DeSantis
External PhD Student
Resilent Biotics
Franca Arndt
External PhD Student
German Aerospace Centre
Institute of Aerospacemedicine
Students
Current and Past Guest Scientists
Prof. Dr.Wei Xiu
Visiting Professor,
Since 2023
Linda Labecka
Guest PhD Student,
March 2025 - March 2026
Iva Vojtkuf
Guest PhD Student,
September 2025 - March 2026
Julia Meltzer
Guest PhD Student,
January 2026
Prof. Dr.Richard Allen White III
Visiting Professor,
March 2025
Tereza Smrhova
Guest PhD Student,
September 2023 - February 2024
Ana Catalina Lara Rodriguez
Postdoctoral Fellow,
September 2023 - February 2024
Dr.Alessandro Airo
Research Scholar,
February-March 2024
Deborah Bastoni
Guest PhD Student,
September 2023 - May 2024
Prof. Dr.Ricardo H. Kruger
Visiting Professor,
2018
Graduates from Probst Lab & Alumni/ae
Master Students
Victoria Turzynski
Sarah Esser
Noel Kleber
Itır Geydirici
Carrie Moore
Thomas Beesley
Adrián Fuentes
Yassin Kaspareit
Katharina Block
Svenja Parge
Sophie Simon
Jörn Starke
Julian Künkel
Katharina Sures
Lea Griesdorn
Christian Alexander von Hagen
Bachelor Students
Jannis Becker
Jörn Starke
Komal Preet Kaur
Lea Griesdorn
Adrian Lange
Katharina Schmidt
Selin Yalcin
Lara Schmalenstroer
Fabian Real
Katharina Sures
Kai Rogmann
Marie Dieckmann
PostDocs
Dr. Panagiotis Adam
Dr. Benjamin Meyer
Dr. Sarah Esser
Dr. Indra Banas
Dr. Till Bornemann
Dr. André Soares
Adminstrative Personal
Maximiliane Ackers
PhD Students
Victoria Turzynski
Till Bornemann
Indra Banas
Katharina Siems
Perla Abigail Figueroa-Gonzalez
Sarah Esser
Tom Lennard Stach
Student Helpers
Jannis Becker
Dawid Krzeciesa
Jörn Starke
Kai Rogmann
Lea Griesdorn
Katharina Sures
Marie Dieckmann
Interns
Katrin Schwank
Jannis Becker
Alexandre Vaz Ramos
Katharina Galwick
Hannes Schlottmann
Lara Timmermann
Adrian Lange
Katharina Block