PhD fellows

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Name, Affiliation, Email	Research Area & Thesis topic	PhD Lab	Track
Sheu Tijani Abogunloko Vascular Immunology Lab, Dept. of cardiology and angiology I	Molecular Medicine Fate, function, and therapeutic stabilization of ApoB self-reactive T-helper cells in mouse atherosclerosis.	Dennis Wolf	SFB1425
Danielle Paige Anthony Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene	Immunology and Virology Post translational modifications of IL-1β; regulation and roles in IL-1β activation.	Georg Haecker	EURIdoc
Lena Appel Institute of Biology II	Protein Structure and Function Structure and function of the electron-bifurcating benzoyl-CoA reductase complex from obligate anaerobic bacteria	Matthias Boll	SFB1381
Mohd Areeb Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Protein Structure and Function Function of ribosome-bound chaperones in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.	Sabine Rospert	SFB1381
Anna-Sophia Baur Dept. of Internal Medicine I	Molecular Medicine The role of miR-146a in CAR T cell Therapy.	Natalie Köhler	CIBSS
Mariia Bazarevich Institute of Biology I	Developmental Biology The context-dependent activity of pioneer factors at the beginning of zygotic development.	Daria Onichtchouk	CIBSS
Bruno Benassini Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center	Immunology and Virology Dysregulation of B cell function in ANCA associated vasculitis.	Marta Rizzi	EURIdoc
Anuradha Bhattacharya Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Protein Structure and Function - Role of Atg13 in autophagy	Claudine Kraft	SFB1381
Martin Borgmann Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center	Molecular Medicine The tumor microenvironment fuels esophageal adenocarcinoma development.	Michael Quante	Track 2
Simon Brandl Institute of Biology III / Signalhaus Freiburg	Immunology and Virology Mechanistic insights in the functioning of immune antigen receptors to improve immunotherapies.	Susana Minguet	CIBSS
Tomas Agustin Brennan Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine	Molecular Medicine Optogenetic control of heterocellular contributions to cardiac excitation and arrhythmogenesis.	Franziska Schneider-Warme	SFB1425
Eva Brombacher Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics (IMBI)	Synthetic Biology and Signalling High throughput data analysis and modelling in systems medicine.	Clemens Kreutz	CIBSS
Annabelle Buschky Institute of Biology III / Signalhaus Freiburg	Immunology and Virology Engineering CAR T cells to overcome limitations in cancer immunotherapy.	Susana Minguet	Track 1
Caroline Chauvie Institute of Physiology I	Neurosciences Nicotinic recruitment of genetically-identified layer 1 interneurons in circuit function and memory.	Johannes Letzkus	Track 2
Diana Chiang Jurado Dept. of Cardiology and Angiology, University Medical Center	Molecular Medicine Studying functional changes of monocytes by scRNA seq in cardiology patients.	Timo Heidt	SFB1425
Victoria Cousin Dept. of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center	Immunology and Virology tba	Klaus Warnatz	EURIdoc
Kevin Daniel Institute of Biology III / Hilde Mangold Haus	Molecular Plant Sciences Elucidating adaptive responses of plant roots exposed to flooding.	Sjon Hartman	CIBSS
Trinh Dao Dept. of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology	Synthetic Biology and Signalling Modulation and integration of host cell signalling pathways via mycobacterial substrate-binding lipoproteins.	Claudia Jessen-Trefzer	CIBSS
Haneen Daralnakhla Institute of Virology	Immunology and Virology Structural and functional characterization of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) glycoproteins and their interaction with B cells.	Hartmut Hengel	EURIdoc
Dorothee Derwort Institute of Biology II	Molecular Plant Sciences Function of ERF transcription factors in phytochrome signalling.	Andreas Hiltbrunner	CIBSS
Agnibesh Dey Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, University Medical Center	Immunology and Virology Investigating macrophages regarding Cytomegalovirus infection.	Philipp Henneke	EURIdoc
Maria Agostina Di Renzo Institute of Biochemistry	Protein Structure and Function Physiological aspects of ammonium transporters sensing in anammox bacteria	Susana Andrade	Track 1
Clara Dufossez Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center	Immunology and Virology Impact of macrophages signaling and metabolism on NLRP3 inflammasome activity.	Olaf Groß	EURIdoc
Anna Ehret Signalhaus Freiburg	Immunology and Virology The effect of oscillatory optogenetic ligand binding on signalling in T Cells.	Wolfgang Schamel	Track 2
Christopher Eickhorst Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Protein Structure and Function ULK1 complex composition and regulation in selective autophagy	Claudine Kraft	SFB1381
Clara-Maria Ell Institute of Biology I, Hilde Mangold Haus	Developmental Biology TGFβ/BMP signalling in space, time and function.	Georgios Pyrowolakis	CIBSS
Magdalena Engelhardt Dept. of Internal Medicine IV, University Medical Center	Developmental Biology Regulation of mucociliary cell fates through Notch signaling in the model Xenopus laevis.	Peter Walentek	CIBSS
Tobias Feilen Institute of Surgical Pathology	Molecular Medicine Matrisome composition and processing in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.	Oliver Schilling	SFB1453
Arash Felekary Department of Microsystems Engineering - IMTEK	Molecular Medicine Investigating cardio-myocyte scar formation on a single cell level using ROCS microscopy and Photonic Force Microscopy.	Alexander Rohrbach	SFB1425
Alexandra Fischer Institute of Biology II / Signalhaus Freiburg	Synthetic Biology and Signalling Control of signalling pathways using optogenetically induced biomolecular condensates.	Wilfried Weber	CIBSS
Giada Forlani Institute of Biology II	Synthetic Biology and Signalling I aim to establish optogenetic control on NF-kB to study its dynamics.	Barbara Di Ventura	CIBSS
Anna Frey Institute of Biology II / Hilde Mangold Haus	Developmental Biology The role of Toll-like receptors in tissue-intrinsic defense mechanisms.	Anne-Kathrin Classen	Track 2
Carolin Gerke Institute of Virology	Immunology and Virology Defining molecular mechanisms of the HCMV encoded MHC class I inhibitor US10.	Hartmut Hengel	Track 2
Maria Gómez-Fabra Gala Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH)	Protein Structure and Function Cellular response to mitochondrial stress.	Nora Vögtle	SFB1381
Nikolas Moritz Groß Institute of Biochemisty and Molecular Biology	Protein Structure and Function Structural and functional characterization of sodium/proton antiporters.	Carola Hunte	CIBSS
Maximilian Haas Dept. of Internal Medicine IV, University Medical Center	Developmental Biology Signaling in mucociliary epithelia.	Peter Walentek	Track 2
Wasihun Hailemichael Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center	Immunology and Virology Heterogeneity of CD8+ T cell exhaustion in chronic viral infection.	Robert Thimme	EURIdoc
Muataz Ali Hamad Department of Cardiology and Angiology I	Molecular Medicine The role of reticulated platelets in myocardial scarring after ischemia/reperfusion injury.	Daniel Duerschmied	SFB1425
Jonas Hammerl Institute of Biology III - Molecular Genetics	Molecular Plant Sciences Subcellular spatio-temporal regulation of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 type IV pilus assembly.	Annegret Wilde	Track 1
Bo Han Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine	Molecular Medicine Sustainability of cardiac pacing by mechanical stimulation in the langendorff-perfused rabbit heart.	Peter Kohl	SFB1425
Verena Holzmüller Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center	Immunology and Virology Impact of EPICC peptide mediated inhibition of complement cascade and neutrophil activation in intestinal GVHD and cytokine release syndrome.	Robert Zeiser	Track 1
Neda Hosseini Institute of Virology	Immunology and Virology Antiviral mechanisms of MxA.	Martin Schwemmle	Track 1
Vincent Idstein Institute of Biology III	Immunology and Virology Biogenesis and dynamic regulation of TCR assemblies.	Wolfgang Schamel	SFB1381
Irma Jayawardana Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department I	Synthetic Biology and Signalling Characterization of DAAM2-regulated nuclear actin dynamics in prostate cancer cells.	Robert Grosse	Track 2
Carolina Jerez Longres Institute of Biology II / Signalhaus Freiburg	Synthetic Biology and Signalling Synthetic biological approaches to study the role of phase separation in cellular processes.	Wilfried Weber	CIBSS
Hong Jiang Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Protein Structure and Function Control of the bacterial stress response by small signalling molecules.	Hans-Georg Koch	SFB1381
Jorge Jimenez Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Protein Structure and Function Structural and functional characterization of assembly and biogenesis of respiratory complexes.	Carola Hunte	SFB1381
Venkata Aaditya Jonnalagadda Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Protein Structure and Function Regulatory mechanisms at the human mitochondrial import machinery.	Chris Meisinger	SFB1381
Nikolaus Jork Institute of Organic Chemistry	Synthetic Biology and Signalling Synthesis of inositol pyrophosphate prometabolites for photochemical release in different cell models.	Henning Jessen	CIBSS
Claudia Juraske Institute of Biology III / Signalhaus Freiburg	Immunology and Virology Biogenesis and dynamic regulation of TCR assemblies.	Wolfgang Schamel	SFB1381
Constanze Kainz Center for Translational Cell Research, Clinic of Internal Medicine I	Molecular Medicine Contribution of obesity to the initiation and promotion of clear cell renal carcinoma.	Ian Frew	SFB1453
Masako Monika Kaufmann Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy	Molecular Medicine Off-target effects of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing	Toni Cathomen	Track 2
Anna Klawonn Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Center	Molecular Medicine Role of ciliary intraflagellar transport mediated signaling for vertebrate development.	Miriam Schmidts	CIBSS
Pascal Kleindienst Dept. of Internal Medicine IV, University Medical Center	Molecular Medicine Role of proteins localized to the ciliary transition zone in polycystic kidney disease and ciliopathies.	Elisabeth Ott	SFB1453
Alexander Kuznetsov Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center	Molecular Medicine Interaction of bile acid receptor and inflammasome activation in the development of Barrett‘s esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma.	Michael Quante	Track 2
Andries Napo Leemisa Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine	Molecular Medicine Implementation of light-gated potassium channels in cardiac myocytes and non-myocytes for optical modulation of tissue excitability and conduction.	Franziska Schneider-Warme	SFB1425
Klara Leonore Lesch Institute of Biology II	Molecular Plant Sciences Downstream signaling of phytochrome dimers.	Andreas Hiltbrunner	Track 2
Tiago Martins Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Center of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine	Immunology and Virology tba	Philipp Henneke	Track 1
David Meral Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology - Department II	Molecular Medicine The mineralocorticoid receptor as key epigenetic regulator of adverse cardiac remodelling.	Achim Lother	SFB1425
Annika Merz Institute for Surgical Pathology, University Medical Center	Molecular Medicine Cell-ECM interactions in renal tubular epithelial cells in the context of progressive CKD.	Christoph Schell	Track 2
Julian Meß Max Planck Institute for Immunology and Epigenetics	Synthetic Biology and Signalling Regulation of hematopoietic stem cell dormancy.	Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid	CIBSS
Andreea Mesesan Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene	Immunology and Virology Characterizing the role of exhausted T cells in hepatocellular carcinoma.	Georg Haecker	Track 2
Martin Milanov Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Protein Structure and Function The role of the ribosome-associated ATPase YchF in regulating translation in response to metabolic changes and cellular stress.	Hans-Georg Koch	SFB1381
Lucia Sol Mitre Vascular Immunology Lab, Dept. of cardiology and angiology I	Molecular Medicine Phenotypes, interactions, and functions of cells of the adaptive immune system in the murine heart after myocardial infarction.	Dennis Wolf	SFB1425
Vasileios Morfos Institute of Biology III – Molecular Immunology	Immunology and Virology Modulating T cell signaling for improved anti-tumor responses.	Björn Lillemeier	EURIdoc
Jennifer Müller Institute of Physiology I	Neurosciences Control of long-range afferents by presynaptic GABAB receptor-mediated inhibition in neocortex	Johannes Letzkus	Track 2
Arpita Nandy Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH)	Protein Structure and Function Role of the presequence protease, Oct1 in mitochondrial proteostasis.	Nora Vögtle	SFB1381
Eva Neugebauer Institute of Virology	Immunology and Virology The effect of DUX4 induction upon herpesviral infection.	Florian Full	Track 2
Trang Nguyen Institute of Biology III / Signalhaus Freiburg	Immunology and Virology Modified TCRs on human T cells targeting tumor cell.	Wolfgang Schamel	EURIdoc
Sophia Ohnemus Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine	Molecular Medicine Theoretical assessment of channelrhodopsins for cardiac arrhythmia termination.	Peter Kohl	SFB1425
Sofia Oros Rodrigo Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine	Molecular Medicine T-tubule calcium homeostasis in cardiomyocytes.	Eva Rog-Zielinska	SFB1425
Maria Kaukab Osman Institute of Virology	Immunology and Virology Investigation of the dynamics of Bat influenza viruses with their receptor MHCII.	Martin Schwemmle	Track 2
Katharina Ostmann Institute of Biology II / Signalhaus Freiburg	Synthetic Biology and Signalling Synthetic biological approaches towards smart biomaterials and cell signaling systems.	Wilfried Weber	CIBSS
Anwit Pandit MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge (UK)	Synthetic Biology and Signalling The role of nuclear chaperons in stress signalling.	Ritwick Sawarkar	CIBSS
Suraj Patil Institute for Disease Modelling and Targeted Medicine (IMITATE)	Molecular Medicine The de-orphanisation of metabolite transporter proteins in the kidney.	Anna Köttgen	Track 2
Megha Patro Institute of Biology II - Microbiology Molecular Biology of Archaea	Protein Structure and Function Localization and Characterization of protein complexes in Haloferax Volcanii	Sonja Albers	Track 2
Andrea Proaño Vasco Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center	Molecular Medicine Effect of the local and distal microbiota on the development of Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma.	Michael Quante	Track 2
Jovana Rajak Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Center	Molecular Medicine Identification of novel therapeutic approaches in xenograft model of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) / Understanding the crosstalk between JMML and immune cells	Miriam Erlacher	Track 2
Christine Rempfer Institute of Biology II - Plant Biotechnology	Molecular Plant Sciences Investigation of plant specific prolyl-hydroxylation and O glycosylation in Physcomitrella patens.	Ralf Reski	Track 2
Jasmin Rettkowski Max Planck Institute for Immunology and Epigenetics	Synthetic Biology and Signalling Regulation of hematopoietic stem cell dormancy.	Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid	CIBSS
Jonathan Robert Institute of Virology	Immunology and Virology Molecular characterization of the interaction between bat Influenza virus and their receptor MHC-II.	Martin Schwemmle	Track 2
Paola Fernanda Ruiz Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center	Immunology and Virology Stroma – plasma cell interaction as driver of antibody-mediated autoimmune disease.	Reinhard Voll	EURIdoc
Aishwarya Saxena Center of Chronic Immunodeficiency, University Medical Center	Immunology and Virology Functional analysis of genetic variants in patients with inborn errors in T cells or B cells.	Bodo Grimbacher	EURIdoc
Alessia Scerna Institute of Biology II, Dept. of Molecular Plant Physiology	Molecular Plant Sciences Auxin and its feedback signaling on PILS turnover.	Jürgen Kleine-Vehn	CIBSS
Franziska Schedel Institute of Biology III	Protein Structure and Function Synthesis of Phosphatase-targeting chimeras (PhosTACs) and studies on the recruitment of SHP2 using PhosTACs.	Maja Köhn	CIBSS
Laura Scheinost Institute of Biology III	Protein Structure and Function Identification and targeting of phosphatases involved in mitochondrial protein import.	Maja Köhn	SFB1381
Nora Isabella Scherer Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center	Molecular Medicine Approaches to investigate the genetic impact on metabolite levels in urine and plasma.	Anna Köttgen	SFB1453
Julia Schimpf Institute of Physical Chemistry	Protein Structure and Function Dynamics of Hsp90:Cdc37:client interactions by multi-color single molecule FRET.	Thorsten Hugel	SFB1381
Stephanie Schmid Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine	Molecular Medicine Nano-structural basis for mechanical fibroblast-cardiomyocyte cross-talk.	Eva Rog-Zielinska	SFB1425
Linus Schömig Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center	Molecular Medicine The role of Notch signaling in Barrett's esophagus and gastro-esophageal cancer	Michael Quante	Track 2
Chiara Schroeder Institute for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology	Developmental Biology Molecular functions of early T-box transcription factors (Eomes and Brachyury) during mammalian gastrulation.	Sebastian Arnold	CIBSS
Lea Seidel Clinic for Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center	Immunology and Virology TCR and co-regulatory signaling in exhausted CD8+ T cells.	Bertram Bengsch	CIBSS
Carmen Senin Institute of Biology II / Signalhaus Freiburg	Synthetic Biology and Signalling The Ephrin receptor as crucial signal transmitter during host cell infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.	Winfried Römer	Track 2
Shanli Seyed Tarrah Department of Medicine, Experimental Nephrology	Molecular Medicine Analysis of the molecular pathomechanisms of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.	Michael Köttgen	CIBSS
Mengjin Shi Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics Freiburg	Developmental Biology Regulation and dynamics of neuronal RNAs in synaptic signaling.	Valérie Hilgers	Track 2
Elena Sindram Center of Chronic Immunodeficiency, University Medical Center	Immunology and Virology Characterization of cytoskeleton and vesicle trafficking abnormalities in inborn errors of immunity.	Bodo Grimbacher	Track 2
Shamphavi Sivabalasarma Institute of Biology II - Microbiology Molecular Biology of Archaea	Protein Structure and Function Deciphering the rotative mechanism of the archaellum, the motility machinery in archaea.	Sonja Albers	SFB1381
Spyridon Thivaios Institute of Physiology II	Neurosciences Identification of Neurexin-mediated trans-synaptic networks using proteomic and biochemical approaches.	Bernd Fakler	SFB1381
Terrence Tigney Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department II	Molecular Medicine Deciphering cell-type-specific transcriptomic changes in atrial fibrillation using single-nucleus RNA-seq.	Lutz Hein	Track 2
Annika Topitsch Institute for Surgical Pathology	Molecular Medicine Mass spectrometry-based proteomics for research in oral medicine.	Oliver Schilling	Track 2
Leonie Vollmar Institute of Physical Chemistry	Protein Structure and Function tba	Thorsten Hugel	SFB1381
Xipeng Wang Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center	Immunology and Virology NLRP proteins in health and disease.	Olaf Groß	EURIdoc
Walja Wanney Institute of Biology II - Plant Biotechnology	Molecular Plant Sciences Machine learning-based analysis of moss development and differentiation.	Ralf Reski	Track 2
Tilman Werner Institute for Surgical Pathology, University Medical Center	Molecular Medicine Liquid Biopsy Proteome Profiling.	Oliver Schilling	Track 2
Maximilian Wess Institute for Surgical Pathology, University Medical Center	Molecular Medicine Matrisome composition and processing in renal tumors of VHL disease	Christoph Schell	SFB1453
Sophie Weyrauch Institute of Physical Chemistry	Protein Structure and Function tba	Thorsten Hugel	CIBSS
Nadine Wössner Institute of Biology III / Signalhaus Freiburg	Immunology and Virology Aligning dynamic TCR assembly with optimal anti-tumour responses.	Susana Minguet	CIBSS
Fan Xu Institute of Biology III	Molecular Medicine Reprogramming of transcriptome after hormetic heat stress by the endoribonuclease ENDU-2 improves lifespan and stress resistance in C. elegans.	Ralf Baumeister	SFB1381
Salih Yanik Dept. of Internal Medicine IV, University Medical Center	Molecular Medicine The role of CMTM4 and CMTM6 in intracellular vesicle trafficking.	Gerd Walz	Track 2
Yatish Yatish Department of Microsystems Engineering - IMTEK	Molecular Medicine Correlating fluorescence and scattered excitation light in Bessel beam light-sheet microscopy.	Alexander Rohrbach	CIBSS