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:
DeepH | MAG | HGT | MGE | Single Molecular Microscopy
Techniques:
Metagenomics | Multi-Omics | Short and Long Read Genomics | ExStream | Bioinformatics
Techniques:
Metagenomics | Viromics | ExStream
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 - August 2025
Former Lab Members | Alumni/ae
PostDocs
Dr. Panagiotis Adam
Dr. Benjamin Meyer
Dr. Sarah Esser
PhD Students
Dr. Victoria Turzynski
Perla Abigail Figueroa-Gonzalez
Katharina Siems
Master Students
Noel Kleber
Itır Geydirici
Carrie Moore
Thomas Beesley
Adrián Fuentes
Yassin Kasspareit
Katharina Block
Svenja Parge
Christian Alexander von Hagen
Bachelor Students
Jannis Becker
Komal Preet Kaur
Adrian Lange
Katharina Schmidt
Selin Yalcin
Lara Schmalenstroer
Fabian Real
Student Helpers
Dawid Krzeciesa
Interns
Katrin Schwank
Alexandre Vaz Ramos
Adminstrative Personal
Maximiliane Ackers