Dr. Yvonne Schmidt, licensed Pharmacist
PhD student from 01/2009 - 02/2013
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2013: Investigations on the structure, biosynthesis and biology of antibacterial cyclic lipopeptides
Dr. Ghazaleh Jahanshah, Microbiologist
PhD student from 10/2012 - 09/2016
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2016: Genome-driven search for Pseudomonas lipopeptides with special consideration of silent gene clusters
(generously supported by a 4 year DAAD PhD-scholarship)
PostDoc from 05/2017 - 12/2019
Dr. Judith Bauer, Food Chemist
PhD student from 10/2012 - 11/2016
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2016: Genome mining for acetate-based bacterial secondary metabolites
Judith Bauer´s work was honored in 2017 with the ´PhD Award of the University of Tübingen´ (see picture) !
Dr. Norbert Kirchner, licensed Pharmacist
PhD student from 11/2012 - 12/2016
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2016: Genome-driven investigation of NRPS-based peptides
Dr. Henrike Miess, Chemist
PhD student from 10/2012 – 03/2017
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2017: Genome mining for guanidine-containing antimicrobial lipopeptides and studies on their biosynthesis
Dr. Julia Chen (née Paterson), Chemist
PhD student from 11/2012 – 04/2018
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2018: Genome-driven investigation and isolation of NRPS-derived siderophores
Dr. Anina Buchmann, Biotechnologist
PhD student from 03/2014 – 08/2018
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2018: Biosynthesis of the Immunosuppressant Brasilicardin: Heterologous Expression, Molecular Investigations of the Gene Cluster and Mutasynthesis Studies
Anina´s work was honored in July 2018 with the ´Student Travel Award´ of The American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) (see picture) !
Dr. Andri Frediansyah, Biologist
PhD student from 05/2017 - 09/2020
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2020: Genome-driven Search of Natural Products from Gram-negative Bacteria
(generously supported by a 3 year RISET-Pro PhD-scholarship)
Dr. Saefuddin Aziz, Biologist
PhD student from 10/2016 - 03/2021
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2020: Chemical and Taxonomic Investigation of Indonesian Soil-dwelling Bacteria
(generously supported by a 4 year DAAD PhD-scholarship)
Dr. Junjing Jiao, Pharmacist
PhD student from 09/2017-06/2021
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2021: Genomics-Driven Investigation of Three Classes of Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from Burkholderia Species
(generously supported by a 4 years China Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD-scholarship)
Dr. Lina Assad, Pharmacist
PhD student from 03/2015-02/2021
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2021: Exploration of Silent Biosynthetic Gene Clusters Encoding Yersiniabactin-like Siderophores from the Strains Yersinia pseudotuberculosis YPIII and Bacillus velezensis FZB42 Employing TAR Technology-based Heterologous Expression
Dr. Niraj Aryal, Biotechnologist
PhD student from 10/2016 - 07/2021
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2021: Unravelling the chemical diversity of actinobacteria obtained from unique Asian ecological niches
PostDoc from 08/2021 - 10/2021
(generously supported by a 4 year DAAD PhD-scholarship)
Dr. Hamada Saad, Chemist
PhD student from 06/2016 - 08/2021
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2021: Expanding The Chemical Space of RiPPs in Rare Actinobacteria Employing a Tunable Metabologenomic Approach
(generously supported by a 2 years PhD-scholarship from the Egyptian government)
Hamada´s work was honored in 2021 with the "Merckle PhD Award in Pharmacy” of the “Ruth and Adolf Merckle Foundation”, Ulm, Germany
Dr. Carolina Cano-Prieto, Microbiologist
PostDoc from 02/2016 – 09/2021
Carolina was awarded with a Young Investigators Grant from the Microbiology Cluster of Excellence EXC-2124 “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections” in 04/2020 to start her own independent research project
Dr. Patricia Arlt, Biotechnologist
PhD student from 05/2017 - 12/2021
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2022: Studies on the Biosynthesis of Guanidine-Containing Cyclic Lipopeptides from Lysobacter spp.
Dr. Thomas Majer, licensed Pharmacist
PhD student from 01/2019-09/2022
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2023: Structure Elucidation of Natural Products from Marine and Terrestrial Sources
Dr. Keshab Bhattarai, Chemist
PhD student from 10/2018 – 05/2023
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2023: Chemical Investigation of Chytrid Fungi and Amphibian Skin Microbiome Bacteria
(generously supported by a 4 year DAAD PhD-scholarship)
PostDoc from 06/2023 – 12/2023
Dr. Jenny Dimelza Gómez Arrieta, Biochemist
PostDoc from 04/2022 – 01/2024
(generously supported by a PostDoc-Fellowship of the CEIBA Foundation)
Dr. Irina Helmle, Chemist
PhD student from 01/2017 – 09/2021
PhD thesis in Pharmaceutical Biology 2024: NMR-based Structure Elucidation of Lipopeptides and their Molecular Interaction with Targets