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Typas Group

Systems microbiology

Alumni

PhD students

  1. Birgit Pfalz (2012-2017), currently R&D IT Project Manager, Bayer, DE
  2. Lucia Herrera-Dominguez (2012-2017), postdoc in Ralser lab (Crick/Berlin), currently Senior Associate Scientist, DSM Royal, NL
  3. George Kritikos (2012-2017), currently Data Architect, European Food Safety Authority, IT
  4. Anna Sueki (2015-2020), postdoc in Jenal lab (Basel Biozentrum), CH – Marie Curie Fellowship, currently Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim
  5. Jacob Bobonis (2016-2022), currently postdoc in Polz lab (Universtiy of Vienna), AT – EMBO and HSFP fellowships
  6. Philipp Walch (2017-2021), currently postdoc in the Broz and Veening Labs (University of Lausanne), CH – EMBO and SNF fellowships
  7. Elisabetta Cacace (2016-2022), postdoc in Sunagawa & Slack labs (ETH Zürich), CH – Novartis grant, currently Ambizione fellow in Persat lab (EPFL)
  8. Afonso Bravo (2018-2023, affiliated student – primary supervisor Jan-Willem Veening, University of Lausanne), currently postdoc in Maier lab (Tübingen), DE
  9. Luoyan Yong (2019-2024), currently postdoc in Cress Lab (UC Berkeley), US
  10. Nazgul Sakenova (2019-2024), currently postdoc in Bernhardt Lab (Harvard Medical School), US – Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship
  11. Stefan Bassler (2019-2024), currently postdoc in Petrov Lab (Stanford), US – EMBL-Stanford Alliance Bridging Excellence Fellowship

Postdocs

  1. Christina Pesavento (2012-2015, EMBO fellow), currently Scientific Referee at BMBF, DE
  2. Manuel Banzhaf (2012-2018), currently PI at Newcastle University (Full Professor), UKRI Future Leader Fellow, UK
  3. Ana Rita Brochado (2012-2018), currently PI at Tübingen University (tenure-track W3 professorship), DFG Emmy Noether, DE
  4. Bachir El Debs (2013-2018, EMBO fellow), currently Director of High-Throughput Biologics at Lonza, CH
  5. Mihaela Pruteanu (2013-2016, EIPOD fellow), currently Scientific Project Manager at TRON Mainz, DE
  6. Alison Waller (2014-2016), currently at Brock University, CA
  7. Joel Selkrig (2014-2021, EMBO & EIPOD fellow), currently PI at Aachen University (tenure-track W2 professorship), DE
  8. Morgane Wartel (2014-2019, EMBO & Humboldt fellow), currently Senior Scientist at uniQure, NL
  9. Lisa Maier (2015-2018, EIPOD fellow), currently PI at Tübingen University (W3 professor), DFG Emmy Noether & ERC StG, DE
  10. Shahraz Mohammed (2016-2018), currently lab manager in Alexandrov lab, UCSD, US
  11. André Mateus (2017-2021, EIPOD fellow), currently PI at Umea University (Assistant Professor), Wallenberg Academy Fellow & ERC StG, SE
  12. Florian Huber (2017-2020, EIPOD fellow), currently Data Scientist and Software Engineer at DevOps, DE
  13. Karin Mitosch (2017-2022, EIPOD fellow), currently Scientific Investigator at Cellzome, DE
  14. Sarela Garcia-Santamarina (2018-2021, EIPOD fellow), currently PI at Leibniz HKI & Jena University (W3 professorship), Germany
  15. Camille Goemans (2018-2023, EMBO & Humboldt fellow), currently PI at EPFL (Assistant Professor), Valle Scholar & SNSF Starting Grant, CH
  16. Milka Hammaren (2018-2020), currently postdoc at Tampere University, FI
  17. Vallo Varik (2018-2024), currently Director of Estonian biofoundry at Tartu University, EE

Affiliated postdocs

  1. Melanie Tramontano (2012-2017, EIPOD fellow), currently Biological Safety Officer at DKFZ, Heidelberg, DE
  2. Marco Galardini (2014-2019), currently PI at Twincore in Hannover University, DE
  3. Haruna Imamura (2015-2019, EIPOD fellow), currently Research Scientist at the Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, JP
  4. Cris Viéitez (2016-2021), currently PI at IBFG in Salamanca University, Ramon y Cajal & ERC StG, ES
  5. Bede Busby (2016-2020), currently Team Manager Bacteriology and Mycology for the Ministry for Primary Industries, NZ
  6. Ruby Ponnudurai (2018-2023, EIPOD fellow), currently Editor at Review Commons, DE
  7. Clément Potel (2018-2025), currently Scientist at Absea Biotech, DE

Lab managers – Research Scientists

  1. Matylda Zietek (2012-2021), currently Research Scientist at the Center for the High-Content Functional Annotation of Natural Products of UCSD, US
  2. Anja Telzerow (2013-2017), currently Research Assistant at University Clinic Heidelberg, DE
  3. Alexandra Koumoutsi (2018-2024), currently Head of Microbial Automation & Culturomics Facility at EMBL, Heidelberg, DE

Faculty visitors

  1. KC Huang (2015, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award from Humboldt Foundation), Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, US
  2. Pascale Cossart (2022-2023), Pasteur Institute, FR
  3. Yuping Li (2023), Basel Biozentrum, CH
  4.  Iñigo Lasa (2025), Universidad Pública de Navarra, ES
  5. Diego Omar Serra (2026), Institute of Molecular Biology in Rosario (IBR), AR
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