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Alumni
Technical assistants
Eva Limpinsel   (2016-2017)
Bianca Altmann (2017-2018)
Marita Hermann (2018-2020)
Björn Reiling (2020-2024)
Senior research fellows
Leonardo Oña (2016-2025)
Postdoctoral students
Dr. rer. nat. Chong Becker  (2017)
Dr. Piyali Pal Chowdhury  (2016-2020)
Dr. Silvia Kost  (2016-2022)
Master students
Muhammad Atiqur Rahman (2016)
Nadja Raifarth (2018)
Iqra Rafik Kasu (2019)
Benedikt Pauli (2019)
Pascal Brameier-Weuda (2019)
Jan-Paul Fischer (2020)
Thomas Schulzendorf (2021)
Jenna Boy (2023)
Andreas Messer (2023)
​Michael Itermann (2023)
Lefkothea Karamani (2024)
Michelle Pohlmann (2025)

Bachelor students
Ramya Ganesan (2016)
Ananya Nidamangala Srinivasa (2018)
Caroline Rolfes (2018)
Franziska Theising (2019)
Alexander Pfaff (2019)
Anna Milchin (2020)
Neele Avermann (2020)
Wyn Pflug (2021)
Anna-Lena Otto (2021)
Lefkothea Karamani (2022)
Nikolas Westerwiede Barros (2023)
Antonia Casto (2023)
Gina Marie Langenberg (2024)
Pia-Sophie Kruckemeyer (2024)
Elias Schütte (2024)
Tomke Swyter  (2024)
Juliana Averdiek  (2024)
Lukas Thomalla  (2024)
Brian Gaertner (2025)
Jan Gregor Bialy (2025)
Sophia Siebe (2025)
Michèle Sawatzki (2025)
​Pía-Kathleen Habekost (2025)

Internship students
Ramya Ganesan (2017)
Iqra Rafik Kasu (2019)
Aditi Shekhar (2021)

Doctoral students
Dr. Samay Pande (2010-2014)  Google Scholar
PhD Thesis: "Ecological mechanisms that stabilize cooperative cross-feeding interactions in bacteria"  
Dr. Glen D'Souza (2011-2016) Google Scholar
PhD Thesis: "The evolution of metabolic dependency in bacteria"                  ​
Dr. Silvio Waschina (2012-2016) Google Scholar
PhD Thesis: "Evolutionary systems biology of bacterial metabolic adaptation"               
Dr. Shraddha Shitut (2013-2017) Google Scholar
PhD Thesis: "Mechanistic and metabolic basis of bacterial cross-feeding" 
Dr. Daniel Preußger (2013-2020) 
PhD Thesis: "
The evolution of metabolic cooperation in bacterial communities – causes and consequences"  
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Dietel​  (2013-2020) 
PhD Thesis: "
Identifying the molecular causes for the commonly observed AT-bias in endosymbiont genomes​" 
Dr. Samir Giri​ (2015-2021) Google Scholar
PhD Thesis: "
Ecological and evolutionary drivers of metabolic cross-feeding" 
Dr. André Bogdanowski (2018-2022) 
PhD Thesis: "
Individual-based modeling of microbial systems under consideration of consumer-resource interactions and evolution" 
Dr. Ghada Yousif (2015-2023)
PhD Thesis: "
Ecology of metabolite cross-feeding in soil bacterial communities"  
Dr. Shiksha Ajmera (2018-2024) 
PhD Thesis: "
Transitions in metabolic cross-feeding" 
Dr. Linéa Muhsal (2018-2024) 
PhD Thesis: "The evolution of cooperation in bacterial communities - an in-depth analysis using experimental and modelling approaches" 
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