Members

Cristina Alcaide joined our group as a postdoctoral researcher in July 2023. Cristina joined us from the CEBAS-CSIC in Spain, where she had obtained her PhD and worked as postdoctoral researcher on crop viruses and plant responses to pathogens. She will be part of the BMBF-funded EpiHAP project. In this project, we combine single-cell transcriptomics and epigenomics to better understand the process of induced gametophytic embryogenesis in plants.

I joined the lab in 2024 as a CEPLAS PhD student. My project focuses on exploring the involvement of Telomere Repeat Binding (TRB) proteins in coordinating the expression of both translational machinery genes and of floral organ identity genes.

Maik Mendler is an IMPRS PhD student from Germany who joined our lab in 2021. His project focuses on telomere dynamics in plant meristems and how telomere length impacts epigenetic gene repression.

I'm a IMPRS PhD student from India. I joined the group in September 2023 as a Master's student and later transitioned to the PhD program. I hold a Master’s degree in Biology from the University of Regensburg, Germany. My doctoral research focuses on characterizing the regulatory complexes surrounding TELOMERE REPEAT BINDING FACTORS and their role in epigenetic repression.

Petra Tänzler joined the group in 2010. She is a molecular biology wizzard from which all projects profit enormously.

Haoran from China and joined in the lab in March 2019. He completed his undergraduate studies in Northeast Forestry University and received his PhD degree at National Institute of Biological Science, Beijing & Graduate School of Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. He is interested in characterizing dynamic changes of the tissue-specific chromatin structure at FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) and how chromatin structure regulates FT expression and flowering.