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Team Members

Principle Investigator

Prof. Dr. Stefan Janssen
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Ludwigsplatz 13-15
35390 Giessen, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)641 99 35-822

Administration

Secretary: Anette Inka Mündelein
Ludwigsplatz 13-15
35390 Giessen, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)641 99 35-823
Fax: +49 (0)641 99 35-829

Graduate Students

Anna Rehm, M.Sc.
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NFDI4Microbiota, Task Area 3, which is dedicated to implementing the services for data access and analyses intended for the microbiology community. The final goal being to make research more standardized and reproducible.
Ludwigsplatz 13-15
35390 Giessen, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)641 99 35-824
Timo Lin, M.Sc.
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Microbial shifts and cytokine pattern in children undergoing chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
Ludwigsplatz 13-15
35390 Giessen, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)641 99 35-824
Ihsan Muchsin, M.Sc.
Early detection and interception for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Ludwigsplatz 13-15
35390 Giessen, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)641 99 35-824
Elena Volp, M.Sc.
deBruijn Graph Rust
Ludwigsplatz 13-15
35390 Giessen, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)641 99 35-824

Student Assistants

Dev Patel Dipakbhai, B.Sc.
Streamline fungal annotation pipeline
Ludwigsplatz 13-15
35390 Giessen, Germany
Room: 608
Phone: +49 (0)641 99 35-432

Lab rotations

Christian Loob, B.Sc.
Spaln3 goes ADP
Ludwigsplatz 13-15
35390 Giessen, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)641 99 35-432
Jeremy Meiß, B.Sc.
Neural Networks for deBruijn graphs
Ludwigsplatz 13-15
35390 Giessen, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)641 99 35-432
Karl Balzer, B.Sc.
Data analysis: synthetic torpor in mice
Ludwigsplatz 13-15
35390 Giessen, Germany
Room: 608
Phone: +49 (0)641 99 35-432

Alumni

  • Graduate Students
    • Andreas Hoek, M.Sc.ORCID iD icon (2024/06 - 2024/05, Production of Natural Colorants of Basidiomycota by Heterologous Expression of Gene Clusters)
    • Katharina Maibach, M.Sc. (2019/11 – 2024/11, Pareto optimal RNA secondary structure prediction algorithms.)
  • Student Assistants
    • Stefan Nitz, B.Sc. (2023/12 - 2024/12, Erstellen von Lehrvideos zur Data-Science Python-Bibliothek "pandas")
    • Jonathan Scharle, B.Sc. (2023/08 - 2024/01, NFDI4Microbiota: Metadata-Dialogue)
    • Leon Metzger (2021/04 - 2021/06 and 2022/01 - 2022/07, Bellman's Cafe)
    • Jasmin Walter (2022/01 - 2022/05, Front end for RNAhybrid)
    • Felix Keller (2020/03 - 2020/12, House keeping of gapc)
    • Lukas D. Frey (2021/10 - 2022/02, Bellman's Cafe)
    • Clara Kilian, M.Sc. (2021/06 - 2022/12, Identification and characterization of Long COVID-19 patients by whole blood transcriptomics.)
  • Master Students
    • Ksenia Leshchina, B.Sc. (2025/03 – 2026/02, Ulvan-induced gene regulation and genome alterations in Alteromonas sp. 76-1)
    • Miriam Reinwald, B.Sc. (2025/03 – 2025/11, Effect of marker gene length on diversity analysis of 16S rRNA data )
    • Noah Stuertz, B.Sc. (2023/10 – 2025/08, Evaluation of the benefits of SYCL in the context of Algebraic Dynamic Programming via GAPC)
    • Sven Jobst (2024/08 - 2024/12, Neural Networks for deBruijn graphs)
    • Elena Volp, B.Sc. (2024/04 – 2024/10, deBruijn Graph Rust)
    • Johannes Groos, B.Sc. (2024/04 – 2024/09, ArgoClip mirRNA target prediction pipeline)
    • Marcel Neuenhoff, B.Sc. (2023/02 - 2024/01, Hospitalized patients poop: A risk for our environment? Co-supervised by Claudio Neidhoefer.)
    • Cäcilia Werth (2022/03 - 2022/09, Investigation of dysbiosis in mice with tuft cell deficit, supervised by Torsten Hain)
    • Tim Wollhöver (2020/09 - 2022/01, Dimensionale Reduktion - Evaluierung aktueller Algorithmen der Dimensionsreduktion anhand von Mikrobiom Datensätzen.)
    • Anna Rehm (2021/09 - 2022/01, Einfluss des genetischen Hintergrunds auf die Komposition und Diversität des murinen bakteriellen Mikrobioms über fünf Generationen, co-supervised by Laurentiu Benga)
    • Katrin Bauer (2021/04 - 2022/01, Sex-differences in the gut microbiome of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD), co-supervised by Ulrike Loeber)
    • Jan C. Keller (2020/03 - 2021/12, Expansion and evalutation of the software tool ReferenceSeeker towards the determination of reference genomes for bacterial cohort studies, co-supervised by Oliver Schwengers)
    • Sonja Diedrich (2021/04 - 2021/09, Benchmarking Metatranscriptomic Assemblers, co-supervised by Sebastian Jaenicke)
    • Matthias Beck, B.Sc. (2022/09 - 2023/06, Microgravity: The effects of long-term bed rest on the human gut microbiome. Co-superwised by Anna Rehm.)
    • Franziska Daumüller, B.Sc. (2022/06 - 2023/03, Mycomatics: fungal RNAseq and genome annotation)
    • Hannah-Sophie Zienert, B.Sc. (2022/09 - 2022/07, AI to predict Leukemia. Co-supervised by Anna Rehm.)
    • Guiraud Tresor Tonou Fotso, M.Sc. (2022/05 - 2022/10, Trait-based community assembly and succession of the infant gut microbiome, co-supervised by Anna Rehm)
    • Fynn Mürmanns, B.Sc. (2023/01 - 2023/08, Speed-Up RNA prediction. Co-supervised by Katharina Maibach.)
    • Julian Andreas Selke, B.Sc. (2022/02 - 2023/09, The fungal microbiome of Conyza canadensis - Perspectives on invasions in dry vs. mesic environments. Co-supervised by Christoph Rosche.)
    • Inès Schönhaar, B.Sc. (2023/01 - 2023/11, W-elements in Schistosoma mansoni. Co-supervised by Christoph Grevelding.)
    • Van Nguyen-Hoang, B.Sc. (2023/01 - 2023/10, Structural RNAs in Exome data.)
  • Bachelor Students
    • Sven Dlugosch (2025/03 – 2025/09, Platemapper, an interactive visualization tool for Qiita)
    • Jeremy Meiß (2024/06 – 2024/11, Extension and improvement of the VXdetector tool for the identification of 16S rRNA sequences in microbiome analysis)
    • Joshua Wagner (2024/03 - 2024/07, The Curious Case of the Caterpillar’s Missing Microbes)
    • Johannes Groos (2022/07 - 2022/08, Identifying the variable 16S regions via readmapping of the raw sequencedata, co-supervised by Anna Rehm)
    • Belinda Rougeault (2020/07 - 2020/09, Characterizing underrepresented clades in reference phylogenies via massive amplicon fragment insertion, co-supervised by Katharina Maibach)
  • Lab rotations
    • Tobias Grütgen, B.Sc. (2025/03 – 2025/04, Quality Control plugin for Qiita)
    • Nurgissa Bekenov, B.Sc. (2025/10 – 2025/12, Visualize deBruijn graphs)
    • Dominik Huefner, B.Sc. (2025/10 – 2026/01, Benchmarking JAX-RNAfold: scalable differentiable folding)
    • Jeremy Meiß, B.Sc. (2025/11 – 2026/01, Metagenomic ONT Assembly of the leaf microbiome)
    • Stefan Nitz, B.Sc. (2023/10 – 2024/12, Assess miRNA expression in Schistosoma mansoni.)
    • Ksenia Leshchina, B.Sc. (2025/03 – 2025/04, Ulvan degrading gene hunt in Alteromonas)
    • Maria Neuhoff, B.Sc. (2025/04 - 2025/05, Metatranscriptomics)
    • Miriam Reinwald, B.Sc. (2024/12 – 2025/01, Impact of marker gene length on diversity. )
    • Mohit Kumar, M.Sc. (2024/08 – 2024/10, Nextflow Pipeline improvements)
    • Joshua Wagner (2023/11 - 2024/02, The Curious Case of the Caterpillar’s Missing Microbes)
    • Elena Volp, B.Sc. (2024/02 - 2024/03, Prototyping in Rust)
    • Noah Stuertz, B.Sc. (2023/10 - 2023/12, Ubuntu Package for fold-grammars software)
    • Daniel Tischler, B.Sc. (2023/10 - 2024/01, Integrate a third auto algebra function, to systematically convert candidates into GraphViz trees.)
    • Timo Bäuerlein, B.Sc. (2022/11 - 2023/01, Microbiome and Myocardial Infarction: influence of low oxygen saturation on the regenerative capacity of dead heart tissue)
    • Hanna-Sophie Zienert, B.Sc. (2022/06 - 2022/07, Collect publicly available childhood ALL microbiome data.)
    • Johannes Groos (2022/06 - 2022/06, Vorarbeiten zum Vxdetector.)
    • Julian Andreas Selke (2021/11 - 2022/01, Fungal function assignments.)
    • Max Pfister (2021/11 - 2021/12, Benchmark creation for RNAhybrid variants.)
    • Jasmin Walter (2021/11 - 2021/12, CLI for RNAhybrid 3.0)
    • Nora Baumann (2021/01 - 2021/02, Metaanalysis of Microbiome data on ALL children.)
    • Clara Kilian (2020/11 - 2021/01, Microbial profiles from Exome data.)
    • Anna Rehm (2020/10 - 2020/12, Host genotype impact on microbiome.)
    • Lukas Hunold (2022/10 - 2022/12, Data mining RNAloops.)
    • Jonathan Scharle (2023/06, Childhood Microbiome Atlas. Co-supervised by Anna Rehm.)
    • Johannes Groos, B.Sc. (2023/09 - 2023/11, miRNA target prediction pipeline.)
    • Sven Jobst (2024/04 - 2024/08, Erstellung eines graphneuronalnetzwerk-gestützten Assemblers auf Basis von De Bruijn-Graphen.)
  • Interns

New to the team?

Please have a look at our onboarding guide.