alumni

The Endesfelder lab started out in October 2014 at the Max-Planck-Institute for terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany. For almost 6 years, we were hosted by the Department of Systems and Synthetic Microbiology, led by Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik.

Each year, we had our wonderful group retreat at the Hanauer Hütte in the Lechtal Alps. There was a secret rule: All had at least once touched the Gufelsee before moving on! We can highly recommend this wonderful place!

In August 2020, we moved to the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and joined the Biological Physics Group in the Physics Department. Markus Deserno, our colleague, recently started an amazing blog about little and larger things that move us.

Unexpectedly though, the unpredictable ways of life soon led us to move again: Since August 2021, we are back in Germany and are now placed at the Institute for Microbiology and Biotechnology  (IfMB) at the University of Bonn. We are very open for all kind of visitors and guests - please just contact us or drop by!

Post Docs and PhDs

Dr. Oliver Caspari

Post Doc 2016 - 2017

now Post Doc at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique
French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS, Paris, France

Dr. David Virant

PhD student 2015 - 2019

Studying Large Multi-Protein Complexes Using Single Molecule Localization Microscopy

now Research scientist at Acies Bio, Slovenia

Master and Bachelor students

Samiha Ali Nahiyan

Master student 2019 – 2020

Quantifying the motion of diffusing fluorescent beads by Single Particle Tracking (SPT)

Haruko Gölz

Master student 2016 - 2017

Entwicklung photoaktivierbarer Varianten des fluoreszierenden Proteins mScarlet

Vanessa Climenti

Bachelor student 2018 - 2019

Developing new tools for advanced sptPALM applications

Michael Rigl

Bachelor student 2018 - 2019

Creating new triple-color strains to investigate the kinetochore complex in Schizosaccharomyces pombe by single-molecule localization microscopy

Marco Hui

Bachelor student 2017 - 2018

Benchmarking sptPALM measurements of protein diffusion dynamics in Escherichia coli cells

Kai Schmidt

Bachelor student 2017

Konstruktion und Charakterisierung von fluoreszenzmarkierten Kinetochorproteinen der Spalthefe Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Exchange and internship students

Benjamin Kovacs

Internship student 2021

Physics and Computer Science, undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University

Katherine Casarrubias

SURA internship student 2021

Physics, undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University

Luis Walter

DAAD RISE summer student 2021

Physics, Master student at Technische Universität München

Josiah Kratz

Rotation student 2021

Biology, PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University

Abigail Busse

Internship student 2021

Physics, undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University

Mehmet Ali Hoşkan

Summer student 2019

Master student Ankara University, Turkey, now PhD student at the UT Southwestern Medical Center

Boğaç Aybey

Internship student 2018

Biosciences, major Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University

Aysegül Yildiz

Internship student 2017

Biosciences, major Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University

Borbála Pisak-Lukáts

Erasmus student 2016 - 2017

Physics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania

Fabienne Caldana

Summer student 2016

Biomedical Sciences, Fribourg and Bern University, Switzerland

Tom Landgraf

Internship student 2015

Chemistry, Frankfurt University

Research and student assistants

Patrick Keyser

Research assistant 2020 - 2021

Dietmar Hertzberg

Student assistant 2016 - 2017

Falk Schellenberg

Student assistant 2015 - 2017