Team

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Lab Retreat 2024 @ Ringberg Castle
Lab Retreat 2023 @ Spitzingsee, excursion to Markus Wasmaier Museum
Lab Retreat 2023 @ Spitzingsee
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Director

 

Personal Assistant

Kirsten Voß
PA to Prof. Tachibana, PhD more

Lab Manager

Rosella Piroddi has been working at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry since February 2002 and she is the lab manager of the Department of Totipotency since February 2025. Her responsibilities include ensuring workplace safety, general laboratory organization, procurement, budget planning, maintenance, and upkeep. In her free time, she enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time in nature and by the sea.
Lab Manager more

 

Head of NGS Core Facility

Rin Ho Kim
Head of NGS Core Facility more

 

Postdocs

Abbie Casper
Scientist,  NGS Core Facility more
David Depierre
Postdoc,  Bioinformatician more
Gizem Kars
Postdoc more

 

 

PhD Students

Ryan Hall
PhD Student more
Robert Ashburn
PhD Student more
Alina Ivanova
PhD Student more
Adarsh Mohanan
PhD Student more
Pavel Kravchenko
PhD Student more
Emma Ryhänen
PhD Student more

 

 

Master & Bachelor Students

Areta Mourati
Master Student more
Marlene Willner
Master Student more

 

 

Research Assistants

Johanna Berger
Research Assistant more

 

 

Technical Staff

Renate Gautsch
Chemical Technical Assistant,  NGS Core Facility more
Renate Hornberger
Chemical Technical Assistant more
Birgit Kunkel
Biological Technical Assistant more

 

 

 

Scientific Visitors

 

Alumni

Anastasiia Bondarieva, PhD

Postdoc
2021 - 2026
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry

Imre Gaspar, PhD

Senior Scientist
2018 - 2022
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria

Johanna Gassler, PhD

PhD Student/Postdoc
Current Affiliation: Postdoc, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
2015 - 2023
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria

Wataru Kobayashi, PhD

Postdoc
Current affiliation: Principal Investigator, University Dundee
2019 - 2025
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria

Nikita Rifel

PhD Student
2021 - 2025
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry

Taisha Tashrin Mimu

PhD Student
2021 - 2025
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry

 

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