People
Luis M Rodriguez-R (PI)
Assistant professor of the Department of Microbiology and the Digital Science Center (DiSC)
Current Students
Edoardo Mandolini
PhD Student and member of the Mycology group (advisor: Ursula Peintner) and MEEGL (co-advisor: Luis M Rodriguez-R)
Nathan Ernster
PhD Student, member of MEEGL, and former member of the Microbial Resource Management group
Amina-Gharib Hassan
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
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
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