
Group photo 2018
Group outing 2019 with Internship guest from Egypt
Christmas market 2019
People:
Anil Kumar Singh
PhD project: Understanding and modulation of tumor-associated interactions of the base excision repair glycosylase hOGG1 in gene transcription
anil.kumar-singh@uni-wuerzburg.de

Alumni:
Dr. Disha Mohan Bangalore
PhD thesis: Single molecule studies of glycosylase interactions (2021)
Current address: Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Christian Häring, University of Würzburg
disha.bangalore@uni-wuerzburg.de

Dr. med. dent. Christian Mehringer
Medical doctoral thesis: Structural basis of DNA target site detection by DNA glycosylases
Current address: Zahnarztpraxis Dres. Hehn & Kollegen, Lauda-Königshofen
christian@mehringers.de

Sarah Kono
Bachelor thesis (Biochemistry): Single molecule studies to monitor the lesion search process of human AGT (2021)
Current address: Master student, University of Würzburg, Germany
sarah.kono@stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de

Paula-Jyoti Makkar
Bachelor thesis (Biochemistry): Towards the structural characterization of UvrA recruitment to DNA alkyl lesions by ATL (2021)
Current address: Master student, University of Würzburg, Germany
paula-iyoti.makkar@stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de

Anja Droste
Master thesis (Biochemistry): Role of AAG in NER activation (2021)
anja.droste@uni-wuerzburg.de
Current address: PhD student, University of Würzburg, Germany

Jennifer Ivlev
Bachelor thesis (Biochemistry): Structural and functional investigations of the alkyltransferase-like protein (2019)
Current address: Research Associate, Octapharma Biopharmaceuticals GmbH, Heidelberg

Felicia Scheffel
Bachelor thesis (Applied Life Sciences, in collaboration with University of Applied Sciences, Kaiserslautern, Germany):
Mechanistic studies on the role of the T antigen-RPA interaction in replication initiation (2018)
Current address: Master student, University of Leipzig
fs58quwu@studserv.uni-leipzig.de

Natascha Rill
Bachelor thesis (Biochemistry):
Single molecule studies of Alkyltransferase-like Protein Interactions (2018)

Katharina Passkowski
Bachelor thesis (Biochemistry):
AFM analysis if the SV40 large T antigen and its interaction with replication protein A and DNA (2018)
Current address: PhD student, University of Mainz, Germany

Angela Borst
Bachelor thesis (Biochemistry):
AFM characterization of SV40 large T antigen and its interactions with DNA (2017)
Current address: PhD student, University of Würzburg, Germany
angela.borst@uni-wuerzburg.de

Lisa Hirsch
Master thesis (Bioanalytics, in collaboration with University of Coburg, Germany)
Studies towards initial DNA lesion detection in base excision repair by atomic force microscopy (2017)
lisa.hirsch@stud.kabelmail.de

Steven Goebl
Bachelor thesis (Biochemistry):
Investigation of DNA interactions by the alkyltransferase-like protein with AFM and fluorescence microscopy (2016)

Jonas Gross
Bachelor thesis (Biology):
AFM analyses of DNA damage verification by the XPD/p44 complex of NER (2015)

Dr. Claudia Büchner
PhD thesis:
Single molecule studies of DNA excision repair processes (2015)
Current address: Global Project and Quality Manager at Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

Nico Wirth
Bachelor thesis (Biology):
Structural and functional characterization of the UvrBC damage excision complex of nucleotide excision repair (2013)
Master in Technical Biology at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (Fraunhofer-Institut für Grenzflächen- und Bioverfahrenstechnik, IGB) and University of Stuttgart, Germany
Current address: PhD student at DTU Biosustain, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Lyngby, Denmark

Dr. Verena Grundler
Diplom (Master) thesis (Chemistry, joint project with Prof. Caroline Kisker):
Interaktionen der Nukleotid-Exzisions-DNA-Reparatur-Proteine Bax1 und XPB und Kristallisation von IGHMBP2 (2010)
PhD thesis at the Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland (2014)
Current address: Deputy Head of Quality Assurance, PharmaZell, Switzerland

Dr. David Fronczek
Diplom (Master) thesis (Physics):
Integration of fluorescence and atomic force microscopy for single molecule studies of protein complexes (2009)
PhD thesis at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) and University of Stuttgart, Germany (2015)
Current address: Physics and Biology Teacher (Referendariat), Rhön Gymnasium, Bad Neustadt, Germany
