Class 2016

Maarouf Baghdadi (Lebanon)
Current position: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Modulation of Insulin Signalling to Improve Mammalian Healthspan" (Prof. Dr. Linda Partridge)
mbaghdadi[at]age.mpg.de

Raymond Laboy Morales (USA)
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for 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

Melanie Mittenbühler (Germany)
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, 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 Brüning & Dr. Thomas Wunderlich)
linkedin.com/in/melanie-mittenb%C3%BChler-83029417a/

Javier Morón Oset (Spain)
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Investigating the spread and toxicity of glycine-alanine dipeptides in C9orf72 ALS/FTD using Drosophila melanogaster" (Prof. Dr. Linda Partridge)
jmoron[at]age.mpg.de

Dimitrije Stankovic (Serbia)
Current position: Research Associate, CECAD Research Centre, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Beyond Splicing: Roles of U5 snRNP in the Cellular Stress Response, Growth and Proteostasis" (Prof. Dr. Mirka Uhlirova)
linkedin.com/in/sdimitrije

Susanna Tulli (Italy)
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Perutz Labs, Vienna, Austria
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Lipid stress sensitivity of membrane contact site formation during autophagosome biogenesis" (Dr. Martin Graef)
linkedin.com/in/susanna-tulli-28b879201

Pavana Vaddavalli (India)
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, CECAD Research Centre, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "The p53-Mediated DNA Damage Response in Caenorhabditis elegans Germline" (Prof. Dr. Björn Schumacher)
pavana.vaddavalli[at]smail.uni-koeln.de

Kavya Vakkayil (India)
Current position: Project Manager for Clinical Evaluations and Clinical Trials, Medical Mind, Berlin, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Thermal adaption of the ubiquitin-proteasome system " (Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hoppe)
linkedin.com/in/kavyaleovakkayil

Till Popkes van Oepen (Germany)
Current position: Data Governance Consultant, OSTHUS, Niedersachsen, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Novel insights into the regulation of nucleolar function and longevity by ncl-1" (Prof. Dr. Adam Antebi) 
linkedin.com/in/till-van-oepen/

Christina Klausen (Germany)
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Innate Immunity, Bonn, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Analyzing the role of ciliary cAMP signaling in neurons" (Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wachten)
linkedin.com/in/dr-christina-klausen-2abb7a146

Laura Wester (Germany)
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
PhD thesis/supervisor: "Analysing an unbiased forward genetic screen for longevity: Inhibiting the integrated stress response extends lifespan through selective mRNA translation" (Dr. Martin Denzel)
linkedin.com/in/laura-wester