Prof. Dr. Marc Thilo Figge
Phone: +49 3641 532-1416 Phone: +49 3641 532-2416 thilo.figge@leibniz-hki.de www.leibniz-hki.de
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Doctoral researchers
Jaime David Acosta España
Surface proteins of Lichtheimia corymbifera as virulence determinants
Friedrich Schiller University
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
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
Naim Al-Zaben
Quantitative Analysis of Intercellular Communication from Live Cell Imaging
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Dr. rer. nat. Robert Altwasser
Gene regulatory network inference in human pathogenic fungi
Dr. Liliana Angeles Martinez
liliana.angeles-martinez@leibniz-hki.de
Spatio-temporal modelling of biological systems
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Dr. rer. nat. Ivan Beliaev
Automated tracking and characterization of cell dynamics for classifier models (BLOODi)
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Dr. rer. nat. Susanne Brandes
Automated Analysis of Dynamic Properties in Biological Systems from Image Data
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Ya-Fan Chen
Development of a semantic knowledge base for digitized antimicrobial biomaterials
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
Jakob Döge
Application and Development of JIPipe for bioimage informations in 3D
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Dr. rer. nat. Martina Graf
Detection of Low Microbial Content in Microfluidic Droplets through Scattered Light Imaging
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Bio Pilot Plant
Johanna Hellfors
Johanna.Hellfors@leibniz-hki.de
MIRAGE – Microbiome Interactions in the Respiratory and Gut Epithelium
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Stefan Hoffmann
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
Tim Hoffmann
Mathematical Modelling of Microbial Population Dynamics
Friedrich Schiller University
Theoretical Microbial Ecology
Simranpreet Kaur
simranpreet.kaur@leibniz-hki.de
Establishment of lung-on-chip model for the interaction of Lichthemia corymbifera with professional phagocytes of the innate immunity
Friedrich Schiller University
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Dr. Dhruv Khatri
Developing Image Analysis Pipelines for Quantitative Microscopy
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Dr. rer. nat. Kaswara Kraibooj
Quantitative and automated analysis of microscopic images on phagocyte-fungus interactions
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Dr. rer. nat. Alessandra Marolda
Characterizing innate immune cell activation by fungal pathogens using Live Cell Imaging
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Dr. rer. nat. Mohammad Mirhakkak
Integration of host, pathogen and microbiome -omics data in healthy and disease states
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Simone Piccioni
Simone.Piccioni@leibniz-hki.de
Agent-based modelling of infection processes
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Dr. rer. nat. Johannes Pollmächer
Individual-based Modeling and Predictive Simulation of Fungal Infection Dynamics
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Dr. rer. nat. Jan-Philipp Prätorius
From microscopy images to biomedical insights: Classical image analysis and AI tools for automated quantification
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Pia Pritzke
Advanced Microscopy of Membranes: From Model Systems to Bacteria
Friedrich Schiller University
Superresolution Microscopy
Muhammad Qaisar
Antimicrobial biomaterials with tailored structures and properties
Paul Rudolph
Spatiotemporal Modeling and Simulation of Fungal Infection Processes
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Saffer
Spatio-temporal modeling of biological processes in organ-on-chip models
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Arjun Sarkar
Automated Processing of Biomedical Images in Infection Research
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Karoline Schied
Karoline.Schied@leibniz-hki.de
Hybrid agent-based modeling of organ-on-chip experiments
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Dr. Anastasia Solomatina
anastasia.solomatina@leibniz-hki.de
Mathematical and computational modeling of immune evasion in fungal pathogens
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Dr. rer. nat. Sandra Timme
Agent-based modeling of the spatio-temporal interaction between immune cells and human-pathogenic fungi
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Marius Wank
Modeling and simulation of host-pathogen interactions
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Jana Marie Wilms
Modeling and Simulation of Host-Pathogen Interactions
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Carmen Elisabeth Wurzbacher
Exploring “bacteria of prey” – organisms that challenge our understanding of biology
Friedrich Schiller University
Microbial Interactions
Manolya Yıldız
Liver-on-chip based elucidation of macrophage-drug interactions in invasive candidiasis
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Junior Research Group Adaptive Pathogenicity Strategies
Mounir Zerdani
Quantitative characterization of antimicrobial biomaterials by automated analysis workflows using JIPipe
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Applied Systems Biology
Gaukhar Zhurgenbayeva
gaukhar.zhurgenbayeva@uni-jena.de
Organ-on-chip: quantitative imaging of microbial dynamics
Friedrich Schiller University
Superresolution Microscopy
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