Group Photo 2026
Christmas Market 2025
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
Pathoja Maity
PhD project: Structural and functional characterisation of AGT clusters in DNA repair
pathoja.maity@uni-wuerzburg.de
Pia Theresa Föhrenbacher
Medical doctoral thesis: Regulation of hOGG1 DNA repair by oxidative stress and the Myc oncogene transcription factor
pia_theresa.foehrenbacher@stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
Maisaa Alsaleh
Bachelor student from University of Cologne
Bachelor project: Single molecule studies of hOGG1 tumorigenic interactions under oxidative stress
maisaa.alsaleh03@icloud.com
Virginija Siauruseviciute
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt Stipend from Vilnius University, Lithuania
Project: Investigation of R-loop resolution by SETX helicase to understand organism resilience to environmental stressors
virginija.siauruseviciute@gmail.com
Alumni:
Johanna Brandl
Bachelor project: Interactions between AGT and T antigen in replication
johanna.brandl@stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
Anna Münz
Bachelor project: DNA alkyl lesion type dependence of NER recruitment by the alkyltransferase-like protein (ATL)
anna.muenz@stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
Kürsat Almaca
Erasmus student from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey
Project: Mapping the hOGG1-Myc interaction interface
kursat.atmaca@metu.edu.tr
Sanjivani Pareshbhai Shah
Master thesis: Interactions between DNA alkylation repair and replication
sanjivani-pareshbhai.shah@stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
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