Program Graduates

The list of program graduates and their doctoral thesis titles is organized by graduation year.

2016

Graduate Name Group Leader Title Of Thesis
Shradha Das Knust Dissecting Crumbs to understand its function in epithelial development of Drosophila embryos
Michaela Mickoleit Huisken Imaging and reconstructing the beating heart and its morphogenesis
Sven Schreiter Tanaka Characterization of photoreceptor outer segments phagocytosis in human embryonic stem cell derived retinal pigment epithelium – and its use as a model for compound screening
Gopi Shah Huisken Pan-embryo Cell Dynamics - Multidimensional imaging uncovers the blueprint of zebrafish development
Anne Morbach Knust The Role of Cdep in the embryonic morphogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster
Andrés Diaz Delgadillo Hyman Temperature drives P granule formation in Caenorhabditis elegans
Tom Stückemann Rink Patterning of the planarian anterior-posterior axis
Antje Petzold Solimena Degradation of insulin secretory granule cargoes and antigen presentation of peptides thereof in Coxsackievirus B5-infected insulin producing cells
Georgios Tsoumpekos Knust big bang, a novel regulator of tissue growth in Drosophila melanogaster
Kirstin Meyer Zerial An in vivo investigation on the mechanosensory function of the mouse liver
Stefania Tavano Huttner Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the role of Insm1 in the generation of basal progenitor cells
Sergej Nowoshilow Tanaka Transcriptome analysis of axolotl spinal cord and limb regeneration
Christopher Schmied Tomancak A live imaging paradigm for studying Drosophila development and evolution
Anna Erzberger Salbreux Actomyosin mechanics at the cell level

2015

Graduate Name Group Leader Title Of Thesis
Sarah Mansour Rink Tissue polarity specification in planarians
Stephanie Spannl-Müller Eaton Identification of the protein Ecdysoneless as a regulator of Hedgehog signaling
Rahul Glover Diez Transport by kinesin motors diffusing on a lipid bilayer
Vanessa Carlos Brand Notch signaling in the adult zebrafish brain: a comparative study of neurogenic niches
Mykola Mylenko Kurzchalia Identification and biochemical characterization of food signal in Caenorhabditis elegans
Veronika Fitz Grill Chromatin transcription by RNA polymerase II - nucleosomal geometry matters
Matthias Munder Alberti pH - a key regulator of cellular dormancy?
Orlando Argüello-Miranda Zachariae The regulatory network controlling the transition from prophase I into metaphase I
Sandra Richter Oates A small molecule screen targeting zebrafish somitogenesis
Marta Florio Huttner Transcriptional signatures of neocortical expansion - evolutionary role of the human-specific gene ARHGAP11B
Mattia Brugiolo Neugebauer The dynamic RNA-binding behavior of SR-proteins
Sergii Gaidar Diez Mechanism of one-dimensional protein diffusion along microtubules
Lydia Herzel Neugebauer Co-transcriptional splicing in two yeasts
Anneke Hibbel Howard Characterization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae kinesin Kip2 by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy
Vladimir Despic Neugebauer Deciphering the post-transcriptional regulatory network during maternal to zygotic transition in zebrafish
Ya-Huei Lin Knust The AP2 complex regulates epithelial polarity via regulating Crumbs endocytosis
Shang-Yun Liu Rink Transcriptomic analysis of molecular wound responses during planarian regeneration
Michael Weber Huisken All-optical 4D in vivo monitoring and manipulation of zebrafish cardiac conduction
Sonja Kroschwald Alberti Promiscuous interactions and redundant assembly pathways promote RNP granule formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Kerstin Schmidt Anastassiadis The role of the H3K4 histone methyltransferase Setd1b during embryogenesis and in adult mice
Sebastian Dunst Eaton Systematic characterization of Rab GTPase cell type expression and subcellular localization in Drosophila melanogaster
Ashish Gupta Stewart Role of H3K4 demethylase Kdm5b in the maintenance of mouse embryonic stem cell pluripotency and neural differentiation
Oliver Wüseke Hyman Pericentriolar material assembly in Caenorhabditits elegans
Jan-Philip Medelnik Tanaka Cellular and molecular effects of lysophosphatidic acid on cultured human neural progenitor cells
Oliver Baker Anastassiadis Adapting Nature's toolbox for genome engineering
Ivan Radin Rödel Functional analysis of the putative mitochondrial copper chaperone AtCox11
Carlos Garzon Coral Howard The forces that center the mitotic spindle in the C. elegans embryo
Özlem Demir Howard Functional characterization of microtubule associated proteins in es cell division and neuronal differentiation
Paulina Strzyz Norden The significance of bringing nuclei to the apical surface for division in the pseudostratified epithelium of the developing zebrafish retina
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