PhD Students 2024

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Noé Escareño
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ana García-Sáez

Optogenetic Control of Cell Death

Amarthya Siddhartha
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Supervisor: Dr. Bernhard Hampölz & Prof. Dr. Martin Beck.

Investigating Unconventional Mechanisms of Nuclear Pore Complex Assembly

Chisato Oyama
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ivan Đikić

Protein and Organelle Quality Control in the Brain

Daitian Xu
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klaas Martinus Pos

Structural and Biochemical Investigation of AcrB Efflux Pump Variants for the Optimization of Inhibitor Design

Daniel Schäfer
Max Planck Institute of Biohysics

Supervisor: Dr. Bonnie Murphy

Elemental Mapping in Cryo-EM

Eric Perez Rivera
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Supervisor: Dr. Uris Ros

The Role of Calcium in Regulated Necrosis

Friederike Schubert
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hummer

MD Simulations of RNA-Protein Interactions

Justin Heftel
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Volker Dötsch

LNP Delivery of DARPins for the Reactivation of p53

Lars Richter
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ana García-Sáez

Structural Analysis of Protein Assemblies in Regulated Cell Death

Noemi Iwicki
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ana García-Sáez

Characterisation of Annexins in Cell Death

Pinar Ciftci
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Supervisor: Dr. Alexandra Stolz

Investigating Potential ER-phagy Receptors and Their Role in ER Contact Sites

Sila Turgut
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ivan Đikić

The Role of Protein Quality Control Mechanisms in Cancer Development

Sofia Peruzzo
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Münch

Regulation of Translation under Mitochondrial Stress

Vera Heesch
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Beck

Subcellular Engineering

Viktorija Dujmovic
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hummer

Investigating Membrane Pore Formation Mechanisms Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Yuning Wang
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Supervisor: Dr. Beata Turonova

Probabilistic Maps of Tomograms for Visual Proteomics

Noé Escareño
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics