Our students are the heart and soul of the Research School. We strongly encourage all students to collaborate across different scientific disciplines and build a strong, international network in order to set optimal conditions for a highly successful career. Below you can find out more about our students, their projects, affiliations and hobbies.
Rachna Behl
Research Topic: Multi-generational impact of future climate conditions on Arabidopsis thaliana redox homoeostasis, epigenome and phenotype
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Lindermayr
Group:Redox-Signaling and Chromatin Modulation
Institute:Institute of Lung Health and Immunity
Nasrine Bekhedda
Research Topic: Using epigenetics to discover mechanisms behind drug tolerance in a fungal pathogen
Supervisor: Dr. Carsten Marr
Group: Quantitative Single Cell Dynamics
Institute:Institute of Computational Biology
Luisa Egert
Research Topic: Discovery and manipulation of key regulators of cell identity in the brain through cellular reprogramming and CRISPR
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Stefan Stricker & Prof. Dr. Magdalena Götz
Group: Epigenetic Engineering & Neural Stem Cells
Institute:Institute of Stem Cell Research
Veronica Finazzi
Research Topic: Single-cell multiomic analysis of transposable elements with new Bayesian machine learning methods
Supervisor: Dr. Antonio Scialdone
Group: Physics and Data-ased Modelling of Cellular Decision Making
Institute: Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells
Vlera Fonda
Research Topic: Decoding genomic signatures of metabolic reprograming in disbetes and obesity
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Henriette Uhlenhaut & Dr. Fabiana Quagliarini
Institute: Institute for Diabetes and Endocrinology
Jasmine Grezzani
Research Topic: The evolution of nuclear sub-compartmentalization and its impact on genome function
Supervisor: Dr. Nicolas Battich
Group: Quantative Cell Biology
Institute: Institute for Epigenetics and Stem Cells & Helmholtz Pioneer Campus
Luisa Hernández-Götz
Research Topic: Investigating how chromatin and proteome composition is remodelled across varying growth conditions
Supervisor: Dr. Kurt Schmoller
Group:Cell and Organelle Size Control
Institute:Institute of Functional Epigenetics
Rattan Kaur
Research Topic: Identification of novel epigenetic pathways
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Schneider
Group: Chromatin Dynamics and Epigenetics
Institute: Institute of Functional Epigenetics
Arohi Khurana
Research Topic: Cell-size dependent regultion of chromatin in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Supervisor: Dr. Kurt Schmoller
Group: Cell and Organelle Size Control
Institute: Institute of Functional Epigenetics
Eric Liu
Research Topic: Deciphering the functions of novel histone modifications
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Schneider
Group: Chromatin Dynamics and Epigenetics
Institute:Institute of Functional Epigenetics
Vera Manelli
Research Topic: Factors involved in the formation of cell type-specific chromatine loops and the dissection of mechanisms of action in the context of neuronal development
Supervisor: Dr. Boyan Bonev
Group:Bonev Lab
Institute:Helmholtz Pioneer Center
Sophie Münch
Research Topic: Repression of genes as part of the gene regulatory unit
Supervisor: Dr. rer. nat. Merly Vogt
Group: Metabolic Programming across Generations
Institute: Institute for Diabetes and Cancer
Meghana Oak
Research Topic: Maintenance of active chromatin states in early Xenopus laevis embryos
Supervisor: Dr. Eva Hörmanseder
Group:Maintaining and Reprogramming Cell Fates
Institute: Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells
Shruta Pai
Research Topic: Paternal programming of offspring immune development
Supervisor: Dr. Raffaele Teperino
Group: Environmental Epigenetics
Institute:Institute of Experimental Genetics
Sarah Christine Pereira de Oliveira
Research Topic: Crosstalk between cellular metabolism and chromatin and rRNA modifications
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Schneider
Group: Chromatin Dynamics and Epigenetics
Institute: Institute of Functional Epigenetics
Atiqa Saijd
Research Topic: Single-molecule analysis of replication origin chromatin
Supervisor: Dr. Stephan Hamperl
Group: Chromosome Dynamics and Genome Stability
Institute: Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells
Daniele Scarcella
Research Topic: Project modeling the immune regulation of clonal hematopoiesis
Supervisor: Dr. Carsten Marr
Group: AIH
Institute: Institute of AI for Health
Tobias Schmidt
Research Topic: Ribonucleoprotein-based CRISPR approaches as novel tools for gene regulation
Supervisor: Dr. Stefan Stricker
Group:Epigenetic Engeneering
Institute:Institute of Stem Cell Research
Priya Singh
Research Topic: Investigation of glucocorticoid receptor signaling in the epigenetic regulation of immune response
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Henriette Uhlenhaut
Institute:Institute for Diabetes and Endocrinology
Aleksandra Sobieska
Research Topic: Combining machine learning and polymer physics simulations to study the
mechanisms of large-scale genome organisation
Supervisor: Dr. Nicolas Battich
Institute: Institute for Epigenetics and Stem Cells & Helmholtz Pioneer Campus
Magdalena Valenta
Research Topic: The role of m6A epitranscriptome in early mammalian development
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Schneider
Group:Chromatin Dynamics and Epigenetics
Institute: Institute of Functional Epigenetics