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Robin Schüren in Labcoat

Robin Schüren

Team Leader

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Crow
Hobbies: Scuba diving & Photography
Theme song: at'aek till we are Ashes
Useless skill: Climbing random stuff
Favorite Organelle: Glyoxisom
Tim Velden in Labcoat

Tim Velden

Team Leader

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Aequorea victoria
Hobbies: guitar, music, working, video games
Theme song: Dethrone / Bad Omens
Useless skill: piercing autoclaving bags by shooting pipette tips at it
Favorite Organelle: Chloroplast
Zio Kim in Labcoat

Zio Kim

Team Leader

B.Sc. Quantitative Biology

Favorite animal: Penguin
Hobbies: Cooking, Film, Travel
Theme song: Waltz for Debby / Bill Evans
Useless skill: Knuckle cracking
Favorite Organelle: Mitochondria
Said Laibacher in Labcoat

Said Laibacher

Wet Lab Lead

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Octopus and Penguins
Hobbies: Reading, videogames, cooking, baking, dancing and sketching
Theme song: "U can do it" by DOMINO
Useless skill: forgetting that I am hungry
Favorite Organelle: Chromoplast
Deniz Öztürk in Labcoat

Deniz Öztürk

Outreach Lead

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Sea otter
Hobbies: Drawing, reading, traveling
Theme song: Anywhere from Limits / Bad Omens to How Do You Know It's Not Armadillo Shells? / Hot Mulligan
Useless skill: Plugging my USB into the port on my first try
Favorite Organelle: Nucleus
Melanie Schreiber in Labcoat

Melanie Schreiber

Wiki Lead

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Bears
Hobbies: Videogames, Art
Theme song: "Spider dance" by Toby Fox
Useless skill: Being fascinated with everything remotly interesting
Favorite Organelle: Peroxisome
Annika Maß in Labcoat

Annika Maß

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Hippopotamus
Hobbies: irish mythology, medievil artisanship
Theme song: Reign of the Septims / Jeremy Soule
Useless skill: Reciting tolkien poems
Favorite Organelle: Vacuole
Bianca Eickhorst in Labcoat

Bianca Eickhorst

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Pinguin & Kolibris
Hobbies: Videogames, reading, baking
Theme song: Hayloft / Mother Mother
Useless skill: knowing a lot about Milk
Favorite Organelle: cytosol
Darrel Narta in Labcoat

Darrel Narta

B.Sc. Biochemistry

Favorite animal: Axolotl
Hobbies: Endurance sports in harsh weather
Theme song: Bellini - Samba do Brasil
Useless skill: Finger binary
Favorite Organelle: Mitochondrion
David Fettinger in Labcoat

David Fettinger

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Spiders, Octopus
Hobbies: Dancing, Golf, Music, Videogames
Theme song: The Hype / Twenty One Pilots
Useless skill: Spider knowledge
Favorite Organelle: Centrosome
Justin Böhm in Labcoat

Justin Böhm

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Cats, of course
Hobbies: petting Cats, Videogames
Theme song: no
Useless skill: Annihilating marzipan real quick
Favorite Organelle: Mitochondria
Luisa Tenter in Labcoat

Luisa Tenter

B.Sc. Biochemistry

Favorite animal: Dolphins
Hobbies: Traveling, painting, guitar
Theme song: Space Oddity/David Bowie
Useless skill: licking my elbow
Favorite Organelle: Ribosomes
Meggie Weber in Labcoat

Meggie Weber

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: /
Hobbies: /
Theme song: /
Useless skill: /
Favorite Organelle: /
Noah Ben Bulawa in Labcoat

Noah Ben Bulawa

B.Sc. Biochemistry

Favorite animal: Cat
Hobbies: Videogames, Volleyball, Memes
Theme song: Cherry Blossoms / Shady Moon
Useless skill: making Memes real fast
Favorite Organelle: Mitochondria
Sofie Rüffer in Labcoat

Sofie Rüffer

B.Sc. Quantitative Biology

Favorite animal: Red Panda
Hobbies: Reading, Fencing
Theme song: /
Useless skill: Ranking countries by the size of their street signs
Favorite Organelle: Lysosome
Violetta Eva Antczak in Labcoat

Violetta Eva Antczak

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Penguin
Hobbies: Cooking, baking, Videogames, astrophysics
Theme song: Wildflower / beach house
Useless skill: Can name all prices from grocery stores
Favorite Organelle: Mitochondria

Advisors

Max Denter in Labcoat

Max Denter

M.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Vulpes zerda
Hobbies: Plants, Music, Cooking, Science, Enjoying nature
Theme song: Trust Me
Useless skill: Forgetting live-changing ideas
Favorite Organelle: Mitochondria
Deniz Karagöz in Labcoat

Deniz Karagöz

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Sperm whale
Hobbies: cycling, sailing, photography
Theme song: Rocket man / Elton John
Useless skill: Can knot with anything as long as it does not snap
Favorite Organelle: peroxisome
Florian Hänsel in Labcoat

Florian Hänsel

CEPLAS Graduate School

Favorite animal: Common Degu
Hobbies: Tennis, Climbing, Diving, Travelling, Space
Theme song: Hall of Fame / The Script
Useless skill: Having an overly ornate handwriting
Favorite Organelle: Golgi apparatus
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Oliver Kraft

M.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)
Hobbies: Sports, reading, board and card games
Theme song: Wind of change by Scorpions (according to an online test)
Useless skill: Creating water-drop sounds with my mouth
Favorite Organelle: Endoplasmic reticulum
Joëlle Boecker in Labcoat

Joëlle Boecker

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Luna moth
Hobbies: art of all kinds, cosplay, pole dance
Theme song: Dash / NMIXX
Useless skill: Generating more ideas than I can finish in my lifetime every month
Favorite Organelle: Nucleus
Niklas Küppers in Labcoat

Niklas Küppers

M.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Canis lupus
Hobbies: History, reading, cooking, videogames, gardening
Theme song: /
Useless skill: Having lots of dumb Ideas
Favorite Organelle: Nitroplast
Ben Lenkewitz in Labcoat

Ben Lenkewitz

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: Earthworm
Hobbies: Trekking, competitive shooting, learning from history
Theme song: Prussia's Glory
Useless skill: Procrastinating
Favorite Organelle: Plastids
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Yasemin Baran

M.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: desert rain frog
Hobbies: Food and eating
Theme song: bob the builder
Useless skill: Very flexible joints
Favorite Organelle: Chloroplast
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Can Karka

B.Sc. Computer Science

Favorite animal: Dogs
Hobbies: Coding, video games, volleyball, table tennis
Theme song: Nothing Else Matters / Metallica
Useless skill: knowing everything about planes
Favorite Organelle: Favorite what?
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Antigoni Mouratidou

B.Sc. Biology

Favorite animal: magellanic penguin
Hobbies: street dancing, reading, journaling
Theme song: -
Useless skill: Killing every plant I own
Favorite Organelle: ER
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Yannik Grans

B.Sc. Biology International

Favorite animal: Quokka (Setonix brachyurus)
Hobbies: Hardstyle music, Tinkering, Plants, Space flight
Theme song: DISCOTEK / Rooler
Useless skill: Being a green tea connoisseur
Favorite Organelle: Chloroplast

PI's

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Prof. Dr. Markus Pauly

Favorite animal: Python
Hobbies: Scuba diving, tango, puzzle
Theme song: Game of thrones - Ramin Djawadi
Useless skill: Managing the demise of all room plants
Favorite Organelle: Golgi apparatus
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Prof. Dr. Guido Grossmann

Favorite animal: Homo sapiens
Hobbies: Being creative, taking things apart, fixing things, making music, anything outdoors-related
Theme song: Nothing else matters, Metallica
Useless skill: Being able to spend way too much time on looking for a useless skill and not feeling bad about it
Favorite Organelle: The plasma membrane (aka the interface between the living and the dead)
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Dr. St. Elmo Wilken

Favorite animal: Secretarybird
Hobbies: cycling, building electronic devices (e.g. Arduino based things etc.)
Theme song: DMX - X Gon' Give It To Ya
Useless skill: Lion wrestling (I'm from Africa)
Favorite Organelle: ribosome