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Lab Members » Present
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PD Dr. Sergio Vargas
(Assistant Professor)
(Assistant Professor)
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Prof. Dr. Dirk Erpenbeck
Extraordinary Professor
Scientific Lab Manager
Scientific Secretary of the GeoBioCenter at LMU
Extraordinary Professor
Scientific Lab Manager
Scientific Secretary of the GeoBioCenter at LMU
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PD Dr. Oliver Voigt
Lecturer and Research Scientist
Topic Coordinator Masters Program "Geobiology and Paleobiology"
Lecturer and Research Scientist
Topic Coordinator Masters Program "Geobiology and Paleobiology"
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Dr. Nora Dotzler
(Lab Technician: Histology)
(Lab Technician: Histology)
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Dr. Peter Naumann
(Research Aquaria)
(Research Aquaria)
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Gabriele Büttner
(Lab technician, Molecular Biology)
(Lab technician, Molecular Biology)
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Simone Schätzle
(Lab technician, Molecular Biology, Aquaria)
(Lab technician, Molecular Biology, Aquaria)
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Joëlle van der Sprong
PhD student in SPP "Taxon-OMICS" (DFG funded project on Sponge TaxonOMICs v2)
2021 -
(Supervisors: Gert Wörheide, Sergio Vargas, Dirk Erpenbeck)
PhD student in SPP "Taxon-OMICS" (DFG funded project on Sponge TaxonOMICs v2)
2021 -
(Supervisors: Gert Wörheide, Sergio Vargas, Dirk Erpenbeck)
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Killian Smith
PhD student in ITN IGNITE (2019-2021)
Model development
Supervisor: Gert Wörheide
PhD student in ITN IGNITE (2019-2021)
Model development
Supervisor: Gert Wörheide
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Ramon Rivera
PhD student in ITN IGNITE (2018-2022)
Sponge holobiont genomics
Supervisor: Gert Wörheide
PhD student in ITN IGNITE (2018-2022)
Sponge holobiont genomics
Supervisor: Gert Wörheide
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Luis Porras
PhD student (DFG)
Sponge Evolution
(supervisor Gert Wörheide)
PhD student (DFG)
Sponge Evolution
(supervisor Gert Wörheide)
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Lena Wilde
PhD Student (external at Gene Center Munich, Laboratory for Functional Genome [LAFUGA], LMU München.
2020 - ongoing
MGAP Masters student 2016/2017
Calcareous sponges
(supervisor Oliver Voigt)
PhD Student (external at Gene Center Munich, Laboratory for Functional Genome [LAFUGA], LMU München.
2020 - ongoing
MGAP Masters student 2016/2017
Calcareous sponges
(supervisor Oliver Voigt)
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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
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
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Students
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Leonard Namuth
MSc Student MGAP
Supervisor Dirk Erpenbeck
MSc Student MGAP
Supervisor Dirk Erpenbeck
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