Class 2015
Vishnu Balaji (India)
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, TU Dresden, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Regulation mechanism of quality control E3 ligase CHIP" (Prof. Thorsten Hoppe)
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Chiara Calabrese (Italy)
Current position: Scientist, Miltenyi Biotec, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Mitochondrial translocation of TFEB regulates complex I and inflammation" (Dr. Nirmal Robinson)
Awards/Fellowships: Scholarship for Keystone Symposia 2016 "Cellular Stress Responses adn Infectious Agents", Santa Fe, NM, USA, 12/2016
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Giuseppe Calculli (Italy)
Current position: Field Application Specialist, Miltenyi Biotec, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Germline cey proteins prevent protein aggregation in the soma of C. elegans" (Prof. Dr. David Vilchez)
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Plácido da Paixao Pereira (Portugal)
Current position: Customer Sales Support, Bio-Techne, Wiesbaden, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Force perception by α-catenin and its role in intercellular junction formation" (Prof. Dr. Carien Niessen)
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Sophie Kaspar (Germany)
Current position: Specialist in Human Genetics (in further education), Institute of Human Genetics, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Disentangling the role of CHOP in Mitochondrial Dysfunction" (Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Trifunovic)
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David Kochan (Canada)
Current position: European Patent Attorney Candidate, Grund Intellectual Property Group, Munich, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Identification of a context-dependent Mpt5-mediated, post-transcriptional buffering system triggered by chromatin deregulation in S. cerevisiae" (Prof. Dr. Peter Tessarz)
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Magdalena Kremer (Germany)
Current position: Scientific Quality Assessor at BfArM (Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices/Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte), Bonn, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Biochemical and Functional Studies on Regulatory Lysine Acetylation of the Bacterial Transcription Factor RutR" (Prof. Dr. Michael Lammers)
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Sandra Kochan (Germany)
Current position: Manager of Regulatory Labeling and Regulatory Affairs, Glenwood GmbH, Munich, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Deciphering the role of mitochondrial fusion dynamics in adult hippocampal neurogenesis" (Prof. Dr. Matteo Bergami)
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