
Lab Members » Present


PD Dr. Sergio Vargas
(Assistant Professor)
(Assistant Professor)

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"

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

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

Gabriele Büttner
(Lab technician, Molecular Biology)
(Lab technician, Molecular Biology)

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

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

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

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

Vani Tirumalasetty
Student Research Assistant
SpongeTaxonOMICs v2
Student Research Assistant
SpongeTaxonOMICs v2

Leonard Namuth
MSc Student MGAP
Supervisor Dirk Erpenbeck
MSc Student MGAP
Supervisor Dirk Erpenbeck
