Doctoral researchers

Jaime David Acosta España
Surface proteins of Lichtheimia corymbifera as virulence determinants
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Jena Microbial Resource Collection

Parastoo Akbari Moghaddam
parastoo.akbarimoghaddam@hki-jena.de
Quantitative Analysis of Microbial Dynamics in Organ-on-Chip Models
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology

Raquel Alonso Roman
The interaction of Candida albicans with antagonistic bacteria in a Gut-on-Chip model
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms

Mandana Azari Samani
Mandana.AzariSamani@med.uni-jena.de
hPNFs modifications: antimicrobial, osteoblast promoting and immunomodulatory effects

Svitlana Babych
Functional characterization of Candida albicans-induced miRNA in human monocytes
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Infection Biology - immun regulation

Ana Barrera-Palacio
Filamentous microbial co-culture for biotechnological production of natural products
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Bio Pilot Plant

Florian Behrendt
Polymer cyrogels for aquatic microbiomes
Friedrich Schiller University
Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry
Sayoni Chakraborty
Impact of microbiota and Candida albicans colonization on systemic immune respones
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Microbial Immunology

Xiuqiang Chen
Microbiota-driven risk assessment, prevention and clearance of invasive aspergillosis
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Systems Biology and Bioinformatics

Ya-Fan Chen
Development of a semantic knowledge base for digitized antimicrobial biomaterials

Joel Ching Kuma Mbanghanih
joel.ching.kuma.mbanghanih@uni-jena.de
Tracking the Dynamics of Interacting Microbial Populations
Friedrich Schiller University
Theoretical Microbial Ecology

Beatriz Cristóvão
Beatriz.Cristovao@leibniz-hki.de
Unravelling the impact of interferon-immunotherapy on epithelial resistance to Candida albicans translocation and dissemination
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Junior Research Group Adaptive Pathogenicity Strategies

Tony Dib
Ultrasensitive Raman-based detection of natural products in microbial communication (RaMiCo)
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Physical Chemistry

Shalu Dwivedi
Modelling and computer simulation of biochemical defense and evasion mechanisms
Friedrich Schiller University
Matthias Schleiden Institute - Bioinformatics

Nino Eberhardt
Photoinducible Localizable Modulators
Friedrich Schiller University
Organic Synthesis and Bioorganic Chemistry

Friedrich Johannes Ehinger
Non-canonical diversification strategies of nonribosomal peptides in bacteria
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Biomolecular Chemistry

Adrian Feile
Probing cholera infection on a chip
Friedrich Schiller University
Microphysiological Systems

Romy Feldmann (neé Rietschel)
Natural products in reconstituted microbiomes
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Biomolecular Chemistry

Ana Patrícia Ferreira Lobo da Graça
Biosynthesis and function of the cryptic cofactor mycofactocin
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Synthetic Microbiology