Members

Turck group spring 2015. From left to right: Johan Zicola, Petra Tänzler, Franziska Turck, Fabian Bratzel, Tingting Ning, Alexander Förderer, Emmanuel Tergemina, Lorena Varea Montoro, Yue Zhou.

Dema Alhajturki
PostdocDema Alhajturki joined our group as Postdoctoral Fellow in January 2022. She came to Germany from Syria in 2015 to do her PhD at the MPI for Plant Physiology in the group of Rosa Laitinen. After her PhD, she did a formation in data science and programming and will make these skills available to our BMBF-funded project on Microspore epigenetics and differentiation.

Maik Mendler
IMPRS PhD studentMaik 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.

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

Juanjuan Wang
PhD studentJuanjuan Wang joined our group in 2019 as PhD student supported by CSC. Her PhD project focuses on the role and regulation of FLOWERING LOCUS T genes in Brassica napus. The project is part of a collaboration with Jing Wang from Huazhong Agricultural University.

Haroan Zhou
PostdocHaoran 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.