Team

Meet the Team

Student Leaders

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Sirka Dormeyer

Integrated Immunology M.Sc.

Finance Team Leader

Funfact about myself: I remember my dreams 5/7 nights a week.

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Lynn Meiger

Integrated Immunology M.Sc.

Social Media Team Leader and Wiki Design

Funfact: Sharks as a species are older than the the existence of trees on earth and the rings of saturn.

Student Members

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Julia Myrda

Integrated Immunology M.Sc.

Quote: „If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?“ - A. Einstein

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Maria Schweitzer Vasquez

Chemistry M.Sc.

Funfact: The only letter not appearing in the periodic table is j.

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Benedict Werdung

Integrated Life Sciences B.Sc.

Quote: "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." - Robert Louis Stevenson

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Viktoria Balzer

Integrated Immunology M.Sc.

Quote: "Think like a proton - always positive"

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Laura Cáceres Mayordomo

Integrated Immunology M.Sc.

Human Practice Team Leader

Quote: "I'm gonna go stand outside. If anyone asks, I'm outstanding."

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Feyza Arik

Molecular Sciences M.Sc.

Funfact: You might be drinking water that is older than the solar system.

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Marina Kleim

Integrated Immunology M.Sc.

Wet Lab Team Leader

Most consumed goods: books and wine

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Gönlüm Bahar Uçar

Integrated Immunology M.Sc.

Dry Lab Team Leader

I’m from the city of Homer and Heraclitus.

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Vivienne Riekher

Integrated Immunology M.Sc.

Quote: "If you stumble, make it part of your dance."

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Ateeqa Ghuias

Integrated Immunology M.Sc.

“Life finds a way, Always!”

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Anthony Togar

Biology B.Sc.

Quote: "It doesn't matter if you are the first, the second or the sixth. What matters is that you are the best!"

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Favoured Baraka

Integrated Immunology M.Sc.

Passions: collaborative, transformative, and reproducible translational science.

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Buse Karakuluzu

Molecular Medicine M.Sc.

Quote: “…the human being, that's all about a bouquet of cells…”

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Martin Röhn

Computer Science B.Sc.

Funfact: You can save about 455 exabytes of data in one gram of DNA.

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Leona Ehnes

Molecular Biology M.Sc.

Quote: “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” - Steve Martin

Advisors

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Leon Altmann

PhD Student

Ants don't get sick because they have Ant-y bodies.

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Lisa Vogg

PhD Student

Funfact: Our bodies contain more microbial cells than human cells.

PIs

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Prof. Thomas Winkler

Primary PI

"Making science fun"

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Prof. Mario Zaiss

Secondary PI

"Everybody is a genius." - A. Einstein