Class 2016
Maarouf Baghdadi (Lebanon)
Current position: PhD student, Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Sex-Specific Role of Neuronal Insulin Signalling on Health Span in Mice" (Prof. Dr. Linda Partridge)
mbaghdadi[at]age.mpg.de
Raymond Laboy Morales (USA)
Current position: PhD student, Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Role of Mondo/Myc complexes in lifespan regulation" (Prof. Dr. Adam Antebi)
rmorales[at]age.mpg.de
Dr. Melanie Mittenbühler (Germany)
Current position: Postdoc, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
PhD thesis/supervisor: "The Impact of Hepatic FTO on the Initiation and Development of Hepatocellular Carcinoma" (Prof. Dr. Jens C. Brüning)
mittenbm[at]gmail.com
Javier Morón Oset (Spain)
Current position: Postdoc (Partridge group), Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Investigating the repeat length-dependent toxicity and molecular features of C9ORF72-derived poly GA using Drosophila melanogaster" (Prof. Dr. Linda Partridge)
jmoron[at]age.mpg.de
Dimitrije Stankovic (Serbia)
Current position: PhD student, CECAD Research Center, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Staying in the loop: Dissecting the link between pre-mRNA splicing and genome integrity" (Prof. Dr. Mirka Uhlirova)
sdimitrije[at]gmail.com
Susanna Tulli (Italy)
Current position: PhD student, Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Lipid droplet-deficiency compromises early secretory pathway homeostasis required for autophagy and cellular stress survival" (Dr. Martin Graef)
stulli[at]age.mpg.de
Pavana Vaddavalli (India)
Current position: PhD student, CECAD Research Center, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Multiple facets of p53-mediated DNA-damage response: Understanding apoptosis in Caenorhabditis elegans germ cells" (Prof.Dr. Björn Schumacher)
pavana.vaddavalli[at]uk-koeln.de
Dr. Kavya Vakkayil (India)
Current position: Postdoc, Hoppe lab, CECAD Research Center, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Thermal adaption of the ubiquitin-proteasome system " (Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hoppe)
kvakkay1[at]uni-koeln.de
Dr. Till Popkes van Oepen (Germany)
Current position: Postdoc, Antebi lab, Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Deciphering the molecular link between nucleolar size and longevity" (Prof. Dr. Adam Antebi)
toepen[at]age.mpg.de
Dr. Christina Klausen (Germany)
Current position: Postdoc, University Clinic Bonn, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Analyzing the role of ciliary cAMP signaling in neurons", Dr. Dagmar Wachten
cklausen[at]uni-bonn.de
Laura Wester (Germany)
Current position: Postdoc, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Mair lab, Boston, MA, USA
PhD thesis/supervisor: "An unbiased forward longevity screen reveals ppp-1 as a novel regulator of longevity in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans" (Dr. Martin Denzel)
laura.wester90@gmail.com