Group Leader
Prof. Dr.
Christina Zielinski
Department Head
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Postdocs
Michael Müller
Thomas Sommermann
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Nico Andreas
Debdas Paul
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PhD students
Shan Sun, PhD student
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Chang-Feng Chu, PhD student
Alisa Puhach, PhD student
Assistants
Sandra Herbestreit
Research assistant
Claudia Franke
Research assistant
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Monika von der Heide
Research assistant
Steffi Hälbich
Research assistant
Master Students
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Florian Anderfuhr (Biochemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Student Assistants
Lilly May
Student Assistant in Bioinformatics
Mahima Arunkumar
Student Assistant in Bioinformatics
Selin Türkoglu
Student Assistant in Bioinformatics
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Sarah Ouologuem
Student Assistant in Bioinformatics
Ignacio Garcia-Ribelles
Student Assistant in Bioinformatics
Damla Ötünç
Student Assistant in Bioinformatics
Lena Schnell is a medical student in the lab.
Olga Okulicheva is a medical student in the lab.
Mariam Gachechiladze supports the team as a student assistant.
Maha Alissa-Alkhalaf is a bioinformatics student assistant.
Alumni
Ying-Yin Chao was a PhD student and then postdoc in the lab until 2021
Julia Matthias was a doctoral student of medicine and graduated in 2021
Tonio Brinkschmidt was a doctoral student of medicine and graduated in 2022
Gustavo Almeida has been a postdoc in the lab from 2018 to 2020.
David Frieser was a Master Student in Biochemistry at the Technical University of Munich. David performed several lab rotations in the Zielinski lab and then continued to explore the regulation of the inflammasome with novel imaging technologies for his master thesis in the Zielinski Lab. He also supported the lab as a student assistant for more than two years.
Sonja Heine performed her master thesis in Biology in the Zielinski lab.
Claudia Beerweiler performed her master thesis in Biology in the Zielinski lab.
Hanna Meinl studied medicine at the LMU and TUM in Munich and was a postdoc in the Zielinski Lab from 2017 to 2019.
Subarna Palit joined the lab as a bioinformatician under shared supervision between the Zielinski Lab and the Institute for Computational Biology (Helmholtz-Center). She engaged in single-cell analyses of human immune cells with novel bioinformatic tools.
Michelle Klesse performed her master thesis in the Zielinski Lab in 2019. She was a Master Student of the Medical and Immunosciences and Infection program at the University of Bonn.
Christoph Heuser studied Molecular Biomedicine at the University of Bonn where he also started his PhD. He was a research assistant in the Zielinski Lab from 2018 to 2019.
Petra Hadlova received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in immunology from Charles University in Prague. She joined the lab for an internship under the Erasmus+ Recent Graduate program in 2019.
Sophia Mädler performed an internship in bioinformatics in the lab and then performed her Master thesis in the Zielinski lab in 2019.
Bachelor students: Lena Träger, Hin-Man Tai and Viola Siegert performed their Bachelor theses in the Zielinski Lab. Viola continued to support the team as a student assistant.
Student Assistants: Anastasia Litinetskaya (Bioinformatics, TUM), Lena Hackl (Bioinformatics, TUM), Julian Reinhard (Bioinformatics, TUM), Karoline Lutz (Bioinformatics, TUM), Sladana Vujancevic (Medical student), Andrew Carr (Biochemistry), Sophia Mädler (Bioinformatics, Biochemistry), Arina Danilina (Bioinformatics, TUM), Paulina Pittrich (Medicine), Mari del Carmen Martos Contreras (DAAD scholarship, bioinformatics), Aisha Schuhegger (Bioinformatics, TUM), Grace Zhuoyun H (Bioinformatics, TUM), Laurens Lehner (Bioinformatics, TUM)
Technical assistants: Amy Burrell (Australia), Andrea B. Werner
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