Tobias Pukrop

Tobias made his MD thesis work from 1998 - 2002 in the group and analysed the DNA binding properties of TCF/LEF transcription factors. He now is working at the "Georg-August-Universität Göttingen", Germany.

Publications:

Pukrop et al., 2001; Kühl et al., 2001

Contact: Dr. Tobias Pukrop

Marc Philipp Hitz

Marc performed his MD thesis work from 2001 - 2005 in our group and screened for novel genes expressed in the developing Xenopus heart. He now works at the "Medizinische Hochschule Hannover", Germany.

Publication:

Hitz et al., 2002

Contact: Dr. Marc Philipp Hitz

Daniel Maurus

Daniel worked as a PhD student from 2000 - 2004 and as a postdoc from 2004 - 2005 in our group. He performed a screen for non-canonical Wnt-4 target genes in Xenopus laevis. After his PhD, he worked as a postdoc at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosciences in Cambridge, UK.

Publications:

Pandur et al., 2002; Maurus and Kühl, 2004; Maurus et al., 2005; Cus et al., 2006; Gessert et al., 2007; Gessert et al., 2008a; Gessert et al., 2008b

Thomas Brade

Thomas was a PhD student from 2003 - 2007 and analysed the Xenopus homolog of Islet-1. After his PhD, he worked as a postdoc at the Burnham Institute, San Diego, USA. Now, he is working as a postoc at the TU Munich, Germany.

Publications:

Brade et al., 2007; Brade et al., 2006; Gessert et al., 2008b

Contact: Dr. Thomas Brade

Ann-Marie Böttinger

Ann-Marie was MD student in our lab from 2004 - 2007 analysing the influence of growth factors during in-vitro differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells.

Robert Cus

Robert was a PhD student from 2003 - 2007 and characterized the Xenopus homologs of WSTF and a Prothymosin alpha-related protein.

Publication:

Cus et al., 2006

Roman Anton

Roman performed his PhD thesis work from 2004 - 2007 in our group and investigated the function of Wnt/beta-Catenin signaling in murine embryonic stem cells. After his PhD, he worked at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, Germany, and at the Medical Center of New York University, USA.

Publications:

Anton et al., 2007a; Anton et al, 2007b; Quaiser et al., 2006; Rentsch et al., 2006

Tabea Mann

Tabea was a PhD student from 2006-2009 in the fly group of our lab. She examined the function of Islet-1 during cardiac development of Drosophila. She is now working at AxiCorp GmbH, Germany.

Publication:

Mann et al., 2009

Purushotama R. Tata

Tata worked as a PhD student from 2007-2011 in our group and investigated miRNAs in ES cells. Now, he is a postdoc at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

Publications:

Rao et al., 2010; Tata et al., 2011

Barbara Kracher

Barbara Kracher did her PhD thesis from 2006-2011 in our group. She is now working at the MPI for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.

Publications:

Kestler et al., 2008; Maucher et al, 2011

Verena Bugner

Verena Bugner was a PhD stundent from 2007-2011 in our group. She works now at the DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany.

Publications:

Gessert et al., 2010; Bugner et al. 2011a; Bugner et al. 2011b; Tecza et al., 2011

Awards:

Poster Award, Xenopus Converence 2010, Lake Louis, Alberta, Canada

Doctoral Student Award 2011, International Graduate School Ulm University

Aleksandra Tata neé Tecza

Aleksandra Tata worked as a PhD student from 2008-2011 in our Institute. She investigated the role of potential non-canonical Wnt target genes during Xenopus pronephros development. She is now working as a postdoc at Havard Medical Schhol, Boston, USA.

Publications:

Gessert et al., 2010; Bugner et al., 2011; Tecza et al., 2011; Murugan et al., 2012