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Current Lab Members

Sebastian Schuck
2013-		 Sebastian still fantasises about doing experiments himself, but the harsh reality is that he is stuck at the desk.
Saccharo Cerevis
2013-		 Saccharo has been our resident oracle since the lab started in July 2013. What s/he says is mostly incomprehensible but sometimes reveals amazing insights.
Oliver Pajonk
2018-		 Oli did his Master's and PhD with us and is now a postdoc to investigate ESCRTs in ER remodelling. He enjoys music, running and convincing other lab members to join him for running events.
Anke Sander
2021-		 Anke is our administrative assistant. She fights her way through the bureaucratic jungle, always building bridges between science and administration – and also between duty, coffee and cake.
Rolf Schmidt
2022-		 Rolf left us after completing his PhD in 2019 but then thought better of it and returned as postdoc. His guitar collection has been growing all the while.
Petra Hubbe
2022-		 Petra joined us as a technician after many previous jobs, including at the ZMBH. She keeps our many toys for Saccharo in good shape, teaches Saccharo new tricks, and finds out more about what s/he does.
Natalie Friemel
2023-		 Natalie joined the lab in June 2023 for her Master thesis and then stayed as a PhD student. When not investigating ER morphology in yeast, she enjoys hiking, running and her arts & crafts projects.
Klára Odehnalová
2023-		 Klára started her PhD in Octocber 2023. Having quickly made friends with Saccharo, she wants to find out how the ER changes its shape. Outside the lab, her many interests include strange critters, such as bearded dragons.
Sneha Bhatt
2024-		 Sneha joined the lab as a PhD student in January 2024 and is determined to find out how ER morphogenesis works in human cells. Sneha self-identifies as a science geek but also enjoys travelling and cooking (although the right spices are currently a bit hard to come by).
Heike Adler
2025-		 Heike joined us as a technician and in this way returned home to the BZH. She helps us get better at studying ER morphogenesis in mammalian cells.
Pauline Terrien
2025-		 Pauline arrived in Heidelberg in November 2025 to find out how ER size is controlled in mammalian cells.
Leanne de Jager
2026-		 Leanne did her PhD with Friedrich Förster in Utrecht, where she became an expert in cryo-EM. She still loves electron microscopy but now broadened her approach to study ER dynamics in mammalian cells. Leanne also is an avid runner.
Adam Jamalov
2026-		 Adam is studying Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Université Côte d’Azur. He is joining us as an ERAMUS student to help us get better at quantitative image analysis.