Meet the Team
The „Genome Plasticity and Computational Genetics“ group, under the supervision of Korbinian Schneeberger, focuses on plant genomics and the development of computational and biotechnological methods for genome sequence analysis.
We are a multidisciplinary group comprises bioinformaticians, biologists, and biotechnologists.
Prof. Korbinian Schneeberger
Korbinian was born in the bavarian city Munich. He is the head of the team in Cologne and Munich.
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Dr. Finni Häußler
Finni grew up in the north of Germany. She helps with the administrative organisation for both groups. Furthermore, Finni is responsible for bachelors, masters, PhDs and Postdocs.
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Dr. Manish Goel
Manish is from India and his primary research focus is to develop novel computational methods for comparing genome structures. He is also interested in studying meiotic recombination and making corresponding predictive models.
Xiao Dong
Xiao Dong comes from China. Her research interest is to investigate and understand the spectrum and mechanism of mutation in plant genome. Her work focuses on the analysis of variance in mutation accumulation lines of Arabidopsis thaliana (Col-0) which have been infected by pathogens.
Dr. Hequan Sun
Hequan Sun comes from China. His research interests are mainly in developing computational methods by integrating next generation sequencing and genetics, as well as understanding the origin of mutations (e.g., in meristematic layers) during genome evolution using computational techniques.
Dr. Samija Amar
Samija Amar comes from Serbia. She only started in this group and will work on differentprojects. Her main focus will be on creating single cell genome and RNA libraries. With this effort genomic changes (recombination, mutation) will be linked with phenotype of various species (potato, A. thaliana, Brassicaceae species, etc.).
Dr. Craig Dent
Craig comes from a small town in south-east
Australia. He has a background in both
genetics and computer science. He is
interested in genetic variation, and focuses on
the development and application of
computational tools for genetic research.
Birgit Walkemeier
Birgit comes from Germany, She works part-
time for the group in Cologne. With her strong
knowledge in different molecular methods
she is an important and essential support for
the group.
Dr. Sergio Tusso
Sergio comes from Colombia. He is interested
in speciation genomics in diverse study
systems, and in general ecological and
molecular factors resulting in population
divergence. His work focuses on comparative
genomics, experimental evolution, and
inference of molecular recombination from
single cell sequencing.
Dr. Raúl Wijfjes
Raúl’s main research interest lies
in developing strategies to link genomic and
phenotypic variation between different
species of the Brassicaceae family. While his
first name suggests him to be of Spanish
origin, he actually hails from the Netherlands.
Lisa C. Baus
Lisa comes from Ecuador. She is doing her
PhD. During her bioinformatic courses she
gained a deeper insight into NGS and this
brought her to Cologne to do her master
thesis. Now she is back in Munich.
Dr. José Campoy
José comes from south of Spain. His main
focus is to decipher the basis of bud
dormancy in temperate-fruit trees tinkering
with spontaneous mutants, single-cell
sequencing, meristematic layers and
computational genetics.
Alumni
Mathieu Piednoel (Customer Agent Service, Cologne, Germany)
Geo Velikakkam James (Group Leader, Rijk Zwaan, plant breeder, The Netherlands)
Maria Cartolano (Postdoc, Univ of Cologne, Germany)
Vimal Rawat (Data Scientist, BASF, Germany)
Vipul Patel (Data Scientist, Göttingen, Germany)
Xue Dong (Postdoc, Kunming Univ, China)
Benjamin Hartwig (Founder of Neuroblitz, Germany)
Eva-Maria Willing (Bioinformatician, HpH Institut für Hämatopathologie, Hamburg,
Germany)
Jonas Klasen (Data Scientist, Moia, Hamburg, Germany)
Karl Nordström (Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Univ. des Saarlandes, Germany)
Maria Cartolano (Postdoc, Uniklinik Köln, Germany)
Rafa Campos (Bioinformatics Scientist, Uniklinik Köln, Germany)
Prof. Wen-Biao Jiao (Huazhong Agricultural University, China)
Kristin Krause (Inside Sales Account Manager, Illumina, Köln/Bonn, Germany)
Vidya Oruganti (BASF, Gent, Belgien)
José Campoy (Postdoc, European University Of Technology, Cartagena, Spain)
Prof. Hequan Sun (Xián Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, China)
Visitors
Erik Wijnker (Postdoc, Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Luis Zapata (Postdoc, The Institut of Cancer Research, London, UK)
Andreas Madlung (Professor at University of Puget Sound, Seattle, US)
Interns
Lisa Baus (Rotation student, Munich, Germany; Master student, Cologne, Germany, PhD student, Munich, Germany)
Bernhard Bein (Rotation student, Munich, Germany; PhD student, Frankfurt, Germany)
Xinyi Liu (Rotation student, Munich, Germany; Master student, Munich, Germany)
Dinesh Palli (Rotation student, Munich, Germany)
Shrey Parikh (Rotation student, Munich, Germany)
Leon Rauschning (Bachelor student, helper student, Munich, Germany)
Ana Kurdadze (Rotation student, Master student, Helper student, Munich, Germany)
Seyma Ötztürk (Rotation student, Munich, Germany)
Jerina Hoxha (Rotation student, Munich, Germany)
Priscilla Lau (Helper student, Munich, Germany)
Frederik Dröst (Master student, Munich, Germany)
Yuying Rong (Rotation student, Munich, Germany)
