Section Head Prof. Samuel Wagner, PhD
Samuel Wagner studied Human Biology at the Philipps-University Marburg and Biomedicine at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, where he obtained his Master in Medical Sciences in 2003. He earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry for his work on the biogenesis and overexpression of membrane proteins in Escherichia coli with Jan-Willem de Gier at the Center of Biomembrane Research at Stockholm University in 2008. As a spin-off of his graduate work, he co-founded the biotech start-up Xbrane Biosciences, now Xbrane Biopharma. He was awarded the Innovation Stipend of the City of Stockholm for his development of the Lemo System, a tunable expression system for difficult target proteins. Samuel Wagner started to work on the export machinery of bacterial type III secretion systems as an EMBO and HFSP postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Jorge Galán at Yale University. He joined the Faculty of Medicine at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen as an Assistant Professor of Infection Biology in early 2012 and was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Sofja Kovalevskaja Award in the same year. In 2014, Samuel Wagner was listed by the magazine Capital as one of the most influential junior scientists in Germany in the selection 4 x 40 under 40. Samuel Wagner became head of the Section of Cellular and Molecular Microbiology in 2015 and tenured professor in 2018. He is Director of Graduate Studies of the Interfaculty Graduate School of Microbiology and Infection Biology (IGIM), chair of the IMIT and vice dean of the faculty of medicine of the University of Tübingen.
Contact:
Phone: +49 (0)7071 29-84238
Fax: +49 (0)7071 29-5440
Elfriede-Aulhorn-Str. 6
72076 Tübingen
Samuel.Wagner @med.uni-tuebingen.de
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samuel_Wagner
Twitter: @samuwag
Group Members and Projects
Brief descriptions of research projects can be found at the entry of each group member.
Postdocs
Dr. Iwan Grin
Projects:
Lab Manager, Wissenschaftsnetz
Contact:
+49 (0)7071 29-81542
Iwan.Grin @med.uni-tuebingen.de
Dr. Sara Pais
Dr. Abdelhakim Boudrioua
Doctoral Students
Sophie Schminke
Project:
Insertion of Salmonellas integral membrane effector proteins SseF and SseG into host cell membranes
Contact:
+49 (0)7071 29-85773
Sophie.Schminke @med.uni-tuebingen.de
Sarah Trenz
Project:
Insertion of Legionella’s TMD-effectors into host cell membranes
Contact:
+49 (0)7071 29-85773
Sarah-Maria.Trenz @med.uni-tuebingen.de
Sarah Schroth
Nicola Gericke
Project:
Glycopeptide antibiotics secretion
Contact:
+49 (0)7071 29-85773
Nicola.Gericke @med.uni-tuebingen.de
Maradona Daouda-Agbanrin
Project:
Analysis of the assembly of a virulence-associated Salmonella type III secretion system
Contact:
+49 (0)7071 29-85773
Maradona.Daouda-Agbanrin @med.uni-tuebingen.de
Eunjin Kim
Project:
Quality management in assembly of bacterial type III secretion systems
Contact:
+49 (0)7071 29-85773
Eunjin.Kim @med.uni-tuebingen.de
Mirjam Höchel
Project:
Secretion mechanism of the T3SS
Contact:
+49 (0)7071 29-81514
Mirjam.Hoechel @med.uni-tuebingen.de
Technicians
Andrea Eipper
Contact:
Phone: +49 (0)7071 29-81514
Fax: +49 (0)7071 29-5440
Andrea.Eipper @med.uni-tuebingen.de
Melanie Nowak
Contact:
Phone: +49 (0)7071 29-81514
Fax: +49 (0)7071 29-5440
Melanie.Nowak @med.uni-tuebingen.de
Bachelor and Master Students
Lena Schiele
Project:
Proximity Biotinylation
Contact:
+49 (0)7071 29-85773
Ann-Kathrin Kuwertz
Project:
in vivo photocrosslinking in Legionella
Contact:
+49 (0)7071 29-85773
Patrick Moritz
Project:
T3SS Inhibitors of T3SS-2
Contact:
+49 (0)7071 29-81517
Jana Isenberg
Project:
T3SS Inhibitors
Contact:
+49 (0)7071 29-81514