Alumni
Ph.D. students
Katharina Sewart - Ph.D. 2016 / Research associate in Carla Green's lab at UT Southwestern, Dallas / Scientist at OncoLead / Scientist at Eurofins, Munich, Germany / Now 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
Bachelor, Masters, Diploma students
Jessie Rogers - Master’s thesis 2021 / High school teacher and science tutor
Armin Kubis - Bachelor thesis 2012 / MSc University of Heidelberg, Germany / PhD student at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany / Head of Synthetic Biology at b.fab
Sabine Graf - Diploma thesis 2012 / PhD student at the Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society in Dortmund, Germany
Nicole Hustedt - Diploma thesis 2009 / PhD thesis 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 thesis with Melina Schuh at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK / Patent attorney in Germany
Patrick Rockenfeller - Diploma thesis 2006 / PhD thesis and postdoc with Frank Madeo, University of Graz, Austria; Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Kent, UK / Group leader at the Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
Florian Csintalan - Diploma thesis 2006 / PhD student with Alexander Gottschalk, University of Frankfurt, Germany / Manager at Roche Pharma
Anna Makarov / Majored in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Virginia Tech / Medical Scribe at OrthoVirginia
Mitch Woodhouse / Majored in Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech / now: Ph.D. 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/MIT
Fendi Obuekwe / Majored in Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise at Virginia Tech
Joseph Stefano / Majored in Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech / Software Engineer
Kenrick Cameron / Majored in Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech
Haoyun Yang / Majored in Biochemistry at Virginia Tech / now: PhD student at Ohio State University
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 of Process Engineering at Pfizer
Jacob Alder / Majored in Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech / now: 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 / now: Trainee at Merck
Daniyal Kazempour / M.Sc. LMU Munich, Germany / now: PhD student at LMU Munich
Katrin Bertram / Master's student at the IMP, Vienna, Austria
Vera Schmid
Sina Beier / PhD student at the University of Tübingen, Germany / Postdoc at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK
Julia Busch (née Binder) / PhD student at the University of Oxford, UK
Janet Peper / PhD University of Tübingen, Germany / now: Senior Scientist at Pieris Pharmaceuticals
Melanie Märklin-Stradinger / PhD University of Tübingen, Germany / Postdoc 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 / now: Stanford University
Technicians +
Lab managers
Tatiana Boluarte / Laboratory Technician at VT’s Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
Kaysha Perrin / Laboratory technician in the Kojima lab at Virginia Tech / Laboratory technician at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
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