All of them with a healthy grow
Detlef Weigel
Director
I started out as a developmental biologist, but over the past two decades years, my lab has come to focus more and more on questions of evolution. We investigate these both from a genomic perspective and starting from phenotypes, primarily, but not exclusively in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Evolution & Adaptation
Adrian Contreras
Doctoral Researcher
Epigenomics (sRNA/DNA methylation). Population genomics of transposable elements
Anette Habring
Research Technician
Andrea Movilli
Doctoral Researcher
Epigenetics. Transposable Elements. Long-read sequencing
Catarina Lino
Intern
Detlef Weigel
Director
I started out as a developmental biologist, but over the past two decades years, my lab has come to focus more and more on questions of evolution. We investigate these both from a genomic perspective and starting from phenotypes, primarily, but not exclusively in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Fernando Rabanal
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ribosome heterogeneity. Evolution of regulation of ribosomal RNA genes. Population genomics of herbicide resistance
Frank Weiss
Technical Service
Ribosome heterogeneity. Evolution of regulation of ribosomal RNA genes. Population genomics of herbicide resistance
Katrin Fritschi
Research Technician
DNA sequencing and associated challenges
Li He
Postdoctoral Researcher
Monika Demar
Research Technician
Patience Chatukuta
Postdoctoral Researcher
Plant protoplast transformation. Plant regeneration. Plant genome editing
Shanshan Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Plant immunity. Single cell sequencing
Ulrich Lutz
Postdoctoral Researcher
GxG interactions. Flowering time variation. Herbicide resistance.
Wei Yuan
Postdoctoral Researcher
RNA-seq. Ecological Genomics. Complex trait.
Genome Informatics
Detlef Weigel
Director
I started out as a developmental biologist, but over the past two decades years, my lab has come to focus more and more on questions of evolution. We investigate these both from a genomic perspective and starting from phenotypes, primarily, but not exclusively in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Fernando Rabanal
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ribosome heterogeneity. Evolution of regulation of ribosomal RNA genes. Population genomics of herbicide resistance
Haim Ashkenazy
Postdoctoral Researcher
Plant evolutionary genomics. Evolutionary dynamics of gene content in bacterial and plant genomes. Co-evolution of plant-microbe interactions. Comparative genomics and phylogenomics
Ilja Bezrukov
Staff Scientist
Sebastian Vorbrugg
Doctoral Researcher
Application of genome graphs
Wenfei Xian
Doctoral Researcher
Population genomics
Yueqi Tao
Doctoral Researcher
Evolutionary genomics
Zhigui Bao
Doctoral Researcher
Complex structural variants. Pangenome graphs.
Microbes & Immunity
Alejandra Duque
Postdoctoral Researcher
Plant – microbe interactions. Genetic determinants of pathogenicity. Infection genetics.
Anna Marotz
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Ana Montalvao
Postdoctoral Researcher
Plant health. Plant and microbe genetics. Microbial ecology.
Detlef Weigel
Director
I started out as a developmental biologist, but over the past two decades years, my lab has come to focus more and more on questions of evolution. We investigate these both from a genomic perspective and starting from phenotypes, primarily, but not exclusively in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Gal Ofir
Postdoctoral Researcher
Plant immunity. Comparative immunology. Genomics.
Gautam Shirsekar
Postdoctoral Researcher
Hanna Dürr
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Hannah Gauss
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Helena Pfingst
Intern
Katerina Romanova
Doctoral Researcher
Plant-pathogen interactions. Pseudomonas syringae effectors.
Kevin Murray
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ilias Kontos
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Leon vanEss
Master Student
Luisa Teasdale
Postdoctoral Researcher
Lukas Burkhardt
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Martina Kolb
Lab Manager
Plant-pathogenmicrobiome. Lab management.
Miriam Lucke
PhD Student
Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis effectors. Plant immunity.
Natalie Betz
Research Technician
Pin-Jou Wu
PhD Student
Shanshan Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sheila Roitman
Postdoctoral Researcher
Computational Biology
Benjamin Buchfink
Doctoral Researcher
Sequence alignment
Celine Behr
Master Student
Dimitrios Koutsogiannis
Master Student
Hajk-Georg Drost
Group Leader
Computational Biology
Comparative and Functional Genomics, Natural Variation, Evolution of Gene Regulation, Evolutionary Transcriptomics
Nikola Kalabova
Intern
Lukas Maischak
PhD Student
Ecological Genetics
Anja Barth
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Rebecca Schwab
Research Coordinator