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Doctoral researchers

Ana Patrícia Ferreira Lobo da Graça
ana.patricia.graca@uni-jena.de
Biosynthesis and function of the cryptic cofactor mycofactocin
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Synthetic Microbiology

Erik Jörg Fischer
erik.joerg.fischer@uni-jena.de
Metabolic fluxes in plankton
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Jasmin Frangenberg
Jasmin.Frangenberg@hki-jena.de
Evolutionary Analysis of Antimicrobial Resistance and Natural Product Biosynthesis Based on Ancient DNA
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Paleobiotechnology

Alexander Gale
Resurrecting Ancient Antibiotics: Reconstructing Biosynthetic Pathways from Ancient DNA
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Paleobiotechnology

Lena Gauthier
Optimization of super-resolution microscopy for the determination of optimal therapeutic treatment conditions for viral and bacterial co-infections
Friedrich Schiller University
Superresolution Microscopy

Natia Geliashvili
Tracking bacteriophage lineages in microbial communities
Friedrich Schiller University
Viral Ecology and Omics

Manuel Velasco Gomariz
Global Analysis of RNA-RNA Interactions in Caulobacter crescentus
Friedrich Schiller University
Junior Research Group Bacterial RNA Biology

Linda Gorniak
Influence of lanthanides on (non-)methylotrophic metabolism in non-model microbes
Friedrich Schiller University
Aquatic Geomicrobiology

Markus Günther
Role of Amoebal Natural Products in Intra- and Interspecies Interactions
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Paleobiotechnology

Gaurvanshi Gupta
Gaurvanshi.Gupta@med.uni-jena.de
Graphene based antimicrobial biomaterials
University Hospital Jena
Medial Microbiology


Merle Hammer
Impact of dietary factors on Candida albicans colonization
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Microbial Immunology

Tom Haufschild
Cell division without canonical proteins? – illuminating planctomycetal budding
Friedrich Schiller University
Microbial Interactions

Maïa Henry
Metabolites of marine microbiomes at the land/sea interface
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Sophia Hitzler
How adaption of Candida albicans to inflammatory mediators impacts immune recognition and pathogenesis
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Junior Research Group Adaptive Pathogenicity Strategies

Hermann Holbl
Investigation of the Thallusin induced morphogenesis of Ulva mutabilis by integrated metabolomic and transcriptomic analysis
Friedrich Schiller University
Chemical Ecology of cross kingdom interactions

Sheila Hoshyaripour
Biophysical modelling of the bacterial cell wall
Friedrich Schiller University
Theoretical Microbial Ecology

Patricia Hübel
Folic acid as intercellular signal molecule in the multicellular development of social amoebae
Friedrich Schiller University
Pharmaceutical Biology

Alexander Iliou
How to become a chloroplast? - Deciphering primary events in the evolution of phototrophic endosymbionts in a phagocytic predator
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Evolution of Microbial Interactions

Evans Iyamu
Hydrophobicity for exchange of signals
Friedrich Schiller University
Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication