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.