Alumni
Graduate students
Jessie Rogers - M.Sc. 2021 / High school teacher and science tutor
Katharina Sewart - Ph.D. 2016 / Research associate in Carla Green's lab at UT Southwestern, Dallas / Scientist at OncoLead / Scientist at Eurofins, Munich, Germany / Manager AS&T at BioNTech, Mainz, Germany
Julia Kamenz - Ph.D. 2015 / Postdoc in Jim Ferrell's lab at Stanford University / Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, Netherlands
Stephanie Heinrich - Ph.D. 2013 / Postdoc in Karsten Weis' lab at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland
André Koch - Ph.D. 2012 / Postdoc in René Medema's lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam / now: Head of laboratory at the University Hospital Tübingen, Germany
Hanna Windecker - Ph.D. 2011 / Postdoc at the Leibniz Institute in Jena, Germany / Postdoc in Helle Ulrich's lab at the IMB, Mainz, Germany / Scientist at the Paul-Ehrlich Institute
Yu-Hua Huang - Ph.D. 2011 / Postdoc at the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan
Ashapurno Biswas - Ph.D. 2010 / Postdoc at the Paterson Institute, Manchester, UK / now: Manager of research & innovation lab in Canada
Postdocs
Drisya Vijayakumari - 2017 - 2021 / Postdoc in Shiv Grewal’s lab at the NIH
Varun Gopala Krishna - 2017 - 2021 / Postdoc in Vincenzo D’Angiolella’s lab at the University of Oxford, now University of Edinburgh
Bachelor and Diploma students
Armin Kubis - Bachelor thesis 2012 / MSc University of Heidelberg, Germany / PhD from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany / Head of Synthetic Biology at b.fab
Sabine Graf - Diploma thesis 2012 / PhD from the Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society in Dortmund, Germany
Nicole Hustedt - Diploma thesis 2009 / PhD with Susan Gasser at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland / Postdoc with Daniel Durocher at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada / Senior scientist at Ridgeline Therapeutics, Switzerland
Sybille Pfender - Bachelor thesis 2007 / Masters thesis with Mark Petronczki at the London Research Institute / PhD with Melina Schuh at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK / Patent attorney in Germany
Patrick Rockenfeller - Diploma thesis 2006 / PhD and postdoc with Frank Madeo, University of Graz, Austria; Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Kent, UK / Professor at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
Florian Csintalan - Diploma thesis 2006 / PhD with Alexander Gottschalk, University of Frankfurt, Germany / Manager at Roche Pharma
Cameron Nessar / Majored in Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech
Anna Makarov / Majored in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Virginia Tech / Medical Student at VCOM
Joshua Pribadi / Majored in Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech / Certified Nursing Assistant
Mitch Woodhouse / Majored in Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech / PhD student at Cornell University
Erod Keaton Baybay / Majored in Physics at Virginia Tech
Eric Esposito / Majored in Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech / Postbac program at NIH (Bonnemann Lab) / Medical Student at Harvard Medical School
Fendi Obuekwe / Majored in Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise at Virginia Tech / Medical Student at the University of Pittsburgh
Joseph Stefano / Majored in Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech / Software Engineer
Kenrick Cameron / Majored in Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech / MSc in Public Health / Virginia Department of Health
Haoyun Yang / Majored in Biochemistry at Virginia Tech / PhD from Ohio State University / Postdoc at Houston Methodist Research Institute
Stephan Kim / Majored in Biochemistry at Virginia Tech / Medical School at LUCOM
Saahil Golia / Majored in Biological Sciences (Biomedical Option) at Virginia Tech / Medical School at Kansas City University
Jessica Malc / Majored in Biochemistry and Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech
Hunter Haynie / Majored in Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech / Manager Manufacturing Sciences and Technology at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Jacob Alder / Majored in Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech / Line Cook in NYC + volunteering at Mount Sinai Beth Israel / Medical School at St. Louis University School of Medicine
Nadine Schmidt / PhD University Cancer Center, Frankfurt / Trainee at Merck
Daniyal Kazempour / M.Sc. LMU Munich, Germany / PhD at LMU Munich / Postdoc at the University of Kiel
Katrin Bertram / Master's student at the IMP, Vienna, Austria / PhD at the University of Zürich, Switzerland / Medical Science Liaison Manager
Vera Schmid
Sina Beier / PhD student at the University of Tübingen, Germany / Postdoc at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK / Bioinformatician at the MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
Julia Busch (née Binder) / PhD University of Oxford, UK / Product Manager Oncology / Gilead Sciences
Janet Peper / PhD University of Tübingen, Germany / Team Leader at Pieris Pharmaceuticals
Melanie Märklin-Stradinger / PhD University of Tübingen, Germany / Postdoc at University Hospital Tübingen / Research Group Leader at University Hospital Tübingen
Christoph Braun
Paula Quecke / PhD student at the German Cancer Research Center
Undergraduate researchers
> 6 months
Summer students and interns
(> 2 months)
2019 Janina Müller (University of Konstanz)
2017+2018 Erod Baybay (Department of Physics, Virginia Tech)
2017 Jessie Rogers (Liberty University, US; MAOP program)
2015 Christina Peters (Univ. of Konstanz, Germany) / Wanda Christ (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
2013 Holda Anagho (Amherst College, US)
2012 Ajinkya Malasane (IIT Guwahati, India) / Elise Visco (Univ. of Guelph, Canada)
2011 Svenja Schneider (Univ. of Konstanz, Germany) / Julia Sauerwald (Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany)
2010 Kelly Werner (Univ. of Notre Dame, US)
2008 Mehmet Fatih Bolukbasi (Bilkent Univ., Turkey)
2007 Margot Bowen (Duke University, US)
High school student
2018 - 2020 Claire Morton / Undergraduate student at Stanford University
2024 Athithi Prakash
Technicians +
Lab managers
Tatiana Boluarte / Technician at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute / Technician in the José Vargas-Muñiz lab (our neighbors)
Kaysha Perrin / Laboratory technician in the Kojima lab at Virginia Tech / Laboratory technician at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute / Emergency Medical Technician
Eva Illgen / Technician at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Tuebingen, Germany, now retired
Maria Langegger / Technician at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Tuebingen, Germany
Eva-Maria Schwoerzer / Technician at the University of Tuebingen, Germany