Prof. Dr. Gert Wörheide
(Lab head)

Dr. Michael Eitel
Project Manager

ITN IGNITE

Dr. Martin Dohrmann
Post Doc (2016 - ongoing)
DFG Research Fellow
(2013-2016)

Dr. Sergio Vargas
(Assistant Professor)

Dr. Dirk Erpenbeck
Lecturer and Research Scientist
Scientific Lab Manager
Scientific Secretary of the GeoBioCenter at LMU

Dr. Oliver Voigt
Lecturer and Research Scientist
Topic Coordinator Masters Program "Geobiology and Paleobiology"

Dr. Peter Naumann
(Research Aquaria)

Gabriele Büttner
(Lab technician, Molecular Biology)

Simone Schätzle
(Lab technician, Molecular Biology, Aquaria)

Fabian Deister
PhD student in SPP "Taxon-OMICS" (DFG funded project on Sponge TaxonOMICs)
2018 -
(Supervisors: Gert Wörheide, Sergio Vargas, Dirk Erpenbeck)

Luis Porras
PhD student
Sponge Evolution
(supervisor Gert Wörheide)

Benedetta Fradusco
PhD student (DFG)
Biomineralization in calcareous sponges
(supervisor Oliver Voigt)

Nicola Conci
(PhD student, DFG)
Genetics of coral biomineralization
(supervisor Gert Wörheide & Sergio Vargas)

Adrian Galitz
PhD student 2016
(supervisor Dirk Erpenbeck)

MSc student 2014/15
Implications of phylogeny and secondary metabolites on Collospongia auris and the dictyoceratid clade

BSc student 2013: Climate change and marine organisms: corals

Students

Lena Wilde
MGAP Masters student 2016/2017
Calcareous sponges
(supervisor Oliver Voigt)