
Lab Members » Present


Dr. Anshika Singh
Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
2025-2027
Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
2025-2027

Dr. Laura Villegas
(Assistant Professor)
(Assistant Professor)

Dr. Gerrit Nanninga
DFG Project "ChemTrail"
Own position. 24 Months 2024-2026
DFG Project "ChemTrail"
Own position. 24 Months 2024-2026

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

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"

Linda Bichlmaier
(Lab technician)
(Lab technician)

Dr. Nora Dotzler
(Lab Technician: Histology)
(Lab Technician: Histology)

Dr. Peter Naumann
(Research Aquaria)
(Research Aquaria)

Simone Schätzle
(Lab technician, Molecular Biology, Aquaria)
(Lab technician, Molecular Biology, Aquaria)

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)

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

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

Luis Porras
PhD student (DFG)
Sponge Evolution
(supervisor Gert Wörheide)
PhD student (DFG)
Sponge Evolution
(supervisor Gert Wörheide)

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)

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

Students
