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Former Lab Members


Tamas Szoradi 2013-2018		In his PhD, Tamas unravelled SHRED in all its glory. He was also the first of many boldering experts in the lab. Tamas then moved to New York to do a postdoc with Liam Holt.
Jasmin Schäfer 2014-2020		Jasmin's PhD was all about whorls. The force was strong with this one and Jasmin heroically cracked (some of) the secrets of micro-ER-phagy. She then moved to Frankfurt to do a postdoc with Christian Münch.
Dorottya Polos 2014-2015		Dorottya was an ERASMUS student with us. Afterwards, she returned to London to complete her Bachelor’s degree and do her PhD with Margaret Dallman.
Rolf Schmidt 2014-2019		In his PhD, Rolf investigated how yeast cells adapt protein degradation capacity to stress. He then stayed in Heidelberg to do a postdoc in Neuroscience with Carlos Bas Orth.
Peter Bircham 2015-2018		Peter was a postdoc with us and studied ER size control. Outside the lab, Peter still put yeast to good use for brewing. This naturally led to his second postdoc with Kevin Verstrepen in Leuven, where Peter engineered yeast for making better beer.
Verena Bittl 2015		Verena did her Master thesis with us to explore potential ER-phagy substrates. She then moved to Frankfurt to pursue her PhD with Anja Bremm.
Dimitris Papagiannidis 2016-2022		Dimitris did his Master thesis with us and then his PhD. By climbing from tubules to sheets and doing extensive bouldering on the yeast ER, he figured out what Ice2 actually does. He then ventured up another local hill to do a postdoc with Nassos Typas and Mikhail Savitski at EMBL.
Julia Schessner 2017-2018		Julia did her Master thesis with us on visualizing and quantifying micro-ER-phagy by time lapse microscopy. For her PhD, Julia joined Georg Borner’s group at the MPI of Biochemistry in Munich.
Giulia Ruffini 2018-2025		Giulia did her Master thesis and her PhD with us to study ER biogenesis in human cells. Her efforts brought the beauty of the mammalian ER to the lab, and she was the first to capture a picture of the fabled science fairy. Giulia then took a lab manager position at EMBL.
Sibylle Kanngießer 2019-2024		Sibylle's PhD was a close collaboration with Niklas to unravel exactly how Roq1 talks to Ubr1 to activate SHRED. She then moved to Hamburg to take an industry position.
Niklas Peters 2019-2025		Niklas worked closely with Sibylle on the mechanism of SHRED. He stayed on as a postdoc for a little bit before taking an industry job in nearby Bensheim. When Niklas left the Äkta wept.
Lis Albert 2020-2025		Lis spent her Master thesis and her PhD to find out how ESCRT proteins talk with the ER. She closely collaborated with Oli, both on science and also on many other projects such as running and bouldering. She now wants to turn her long-standing interest in science communication into a profession.
Ayelén Valko 2020-2022		Ayelén was a postdoc with us, working on micro-ER-phagy and ER morphogenesis. Aye is a serious artist with a (e)special interest in science-inspired paintings. She decided to turn to art full time and you can visit her work at www.ayelenvalko.com.
Carlos Martin de Hijas 2021		Carlos did his Master thesis to look at transcriptional responses to ER stress, mostly by staring at the computer screen. Carlos then took a job at a local Biotech company.
Anna Platzek 2021-2025		For her PhD, Anna initially wanted to find out what ER whorls are made of and ended up discovering how the entire yeast proteome is remodelled during stress.
Inge Reckmann 2021-2024		Inge was a long-time technician of Felix Wieland before we moved into the lab space she had been keeping in good shape for many years. After three happy years with us, we are sad to lose her to retirement.
Rafael Salazar Claros 2022		Rafael did his Master thesis by joining the SHREDders. He then continued studying the ubiquitin proteasome system as a PhD student in Satpal Virdee's lab in Dundee.
Alexander Wirth 2022-2023		Alex did his Master thesis with us to figure out how reticulon proteins control ER morphology in yeast. He then joined Jirka Peschek's group at our institute for his PhD.