People
Luis M Rodriguez-R (PI)
Assistant professor of the Department of Microbiology and the Digital Science Center (DiSC)
Current Students
Nathan Ernster
PhD Student, member of MEEGL, and former member of the Microbial Resource Management group
Vadym Sokhan
MSc Student
Beatriz Barroso Gstrein
MSc Student
Dorothea Schneider
MSc Student
Other Staff
Melandré van Lill
Intern, MSc Student at University of Pretoria, advisor: Fanus Venter
Internship: July 2023 - January 2024
Former Students
Edoardo Mandolini
PhD Student and member of the Mycology group (advisor: Ursula Peintner) and MEEGL (co-advisor: Luis M Rodriguez-R)
PhD thesis (April 2024): Microbial Interactions in Snow Covered Habitats
Alexander M Paoli
Master thesis (November 2023): Characterization of biogeographic ranges of saltern prokaryotes through cultivation-independent genomics
Caterina Pansoni
Master thesis (October 2023): Effect of glycerol addition on the anaerobic digestion process
Amina-Gharib Hassan
Bachelor thesis (November 2022): The use of metagenomic approaches to study the distribution of halophilic microorganisms
Lukas Gumpold
Bachelor thesis (June 2022): Data curation of Candidatus species entries using an online database
Maria Felicitas Kofelenz
Bachelor thesis (February 2022): Advances towards the construction of a culture-independent collection of genomes to be incorporated into the classification engine of the Microbial Genomes Atlas (MiGA)
Visitors
Alexandra Zachariadou
PhD student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, advisor: Savvas Genitsaris
Research stay: Winter 2024/2025, supported by a FEMS Research and Training Grant
Madeeha Gohar
PhD student at Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, advisor: Muhammad Imran
Research stay: Winter 2022/2023, supported by an Ernst Mach Scholarship (OeAD)
Alejandro Rodríguez-Gijón
PhD student at Stockholm University and SciLifeLab, advisor: Sarahi L. García, Miint Lab
Research stay: Winter 2021/2022
Esteban Bustos-Caparròs
PhD student at Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA), advisor: Ramón Rosello-Mora
Research stay: Fall 2021, supported by a FEMS Research and Training Grant