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
Management
Staff Scientists & PostDocs
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
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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:
Environmental Metagenomics | Viromics | DNA Stable-Isotope Probing (DNA-SIP)
Techniques:
Tool development for metagenome curation | Machine learning | Long-read sequencing | Isopod gut microbiome analyses
Techniques:
DeepH | MAG | HGT | MGE | Single Molecular Microscopy
Techniques:
MGE diversity and distribution | Multi-OMICs |Long-read sequencing | Deep Biosphere | Archaea | Carbodioxyphiles | Archaean Park
Techniques:
Viromics | FISH | SIM | TEM | nanoSIMS | qPCR
Techniques:
Metagenomics | Multi-Omics | Short and Long Read Genomics | ExStream | Bioinformatics
Techniques:
Metagenomics | Viromics | ExStream
Todd Z. DeSantis
External PhD Student
Resilent Biotics
Franca Arndt
External PhD Student
German Aerospace Centre
Institute of Aerospacemedicine
IT and Lab Assistants
Students
Current and Past Guest Scientists
Prof. Dr.Wei Xiu
Visiting Professor, permanent
Prof. Dr.Richard Allen White III
Visiting Professor, March 2025
Linda Labecka
Research Fellow, March 2025 - March 2026
Iva Vojtkuf
Research Fellow, September 2025 - March 2026
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