Class 2014
Kira Allmeroth (Germany)
Current position: Scientist Cellular Assays, Priavoid GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Metabolic control of hair follicle stem cell fate decisions" (Dr. Martin Denzel)
linkedin.com/in/kira-allmeroth-6623211b5
William Bradshaw (England)
Current position: Research Scientist, Sculpting Evolution Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Characterising antibody immunity and ageing in a short-lived teleost" (Dr. Dario Valenzano)
linkedin.com/in/willbradshaww
Markus Doll (Germany)
Current position: German Patent Attorney, Kroher Strobel PartmbB, Munich, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Role of microRNAs in the regulation of DNA damage-induced apoptosis" (Prof. Dr. Björn Schumacher)
linkedin.com/in/markus-doll-50151b83
Nils Hansmeier (Germany)
Current position: Research Assosiate, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Decoding the Impact of Obesity Long Noncoding RNAs on Murine Liver Energy Homeostasis" (Prof. Dr. Jan-Wilhelm Kornfeld)
nils.hansmeier[at]charite.de
Seda Koyuncu (Turkey)
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, CECAD Research Center, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Mechanism suppressing proteostasis collapse in pluripotent stem cells and its demise in Huntington's disease" (Prof. Dr. David Vilchez)
skoyunc2[at]uni-koeln.de
Tania Medeiros (Portugal)
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Autophagy mediated homeostasis of mtDNA maintenance" (Dr. Martin Graef)
Awards/Fellowships: Poster Prize Nature, EMBO 2017 Autophagy: From molecular principles to human disease, Cavtat-Dubrovnic, Croatia, 09/2017
tania.medeiros[at]age.mpg.de
Jabiz Nafisi (Iran)
Current position: tba
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Polarity signaling in the regulation of spindle orientation" (Prof. Dr. Carien Niessen)
linkedin.com/in/jabiz-nafisi-phd-a22b8b146/
Isabelle Schiffer (Germany)
Current position: Transferscout Life Sciences, Gateway Exzellenz Start-Up Center, University of Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "A novel function for MicroRNA-1: Regulation of Protein Quality Control" (Prof. Dr. Adam Antebi)
linkedin.com/in/isabelle-schiffer/
Robert Sehlke (Germany)
Current position: Director Translational Bioinformatics, Exscientia, Vienna, Austria
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Integration of molecular regulatory networks: The Drosophila insulin response and mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation dynamics." (Prof. Dr. Andreas Beyer)
linkedin.com/in/robert-sehlke-994079ba
Hans-Georg Sprenger (Germany)
Current position: Research and Postdoctoral Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
PhD thesis/supervisor: "The physiological role of the mitochondrial proteases YME1L and OMA1 in the nervous system" (Prof. Dr. Thomas Langer)
linkedin.com/in/hans-georg-sprenger-962857203
Anna Vesting (Germany)
Current position: Scientific Researcher, Evotech SE, Hamburg, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Hepatic NIK Impairs Growth Hormone-induced STAT5 Signaling to Promote HCC" (Dr. Thomas Wunderlich)
linkedin.com/in/anna-juliane-vesting/
Gulzar Wani (India)
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Biomedizinisches Centrum (BMC), Munich, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Role of the i-AAA mitochondrial protease Yme1l in adult neural stem cells" (Prof. Dr. Matteo Bergami)
linkedin.com/in/gulzar-wani-9882a5191/