Team
Head of the department
Research interests: Ecology and evolution of metabolite cross-feeding among microorganisms. Genomic and physiological consequences of a synergistic coevolution. Contact-dependent interactions among bacterial cells. Ecological and evolutionary dynamics within microbial interaction networks. Bacterial multicellularity. ​
Department Assistant
Research Assistant
Dr. rer. nat. Dominique Remy
 remy (at) uni-osnabrueck.de                                                                          
​+49 (0) 541 969-2829
Research interests: Efficiency of restoration measures. Nutrient fluxes and origins of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems. Biomass production of aquatic macrophytes in stream ecosystems.​
Post-Docs
Dr. rer. nat. Leonardo Oña
leonardo.onabubach (at) uni-osnabrueck.de                                      
​​+49 (0) 541 969-2255
Research interests: Theoretical Biology. Evolution and maintenance of cooperative interactions. Evolution of biological networks. Coevolutionary dynamics within microbial communities.
PhD students
MSc. Shiksha Ajmera
sajmera (at)uni-osnabrueck.de                                                            
​​+49 (0) 541 969-2255
Research interests: Ecology and evolution of interaction amongst microbes. Nanotube formation in microbes: regulation, function and consequence.
MSc. Ghada Yousif
ghada.yousif (at) uni-osnabrueck.de                         
​+49 (0) 541 969-7141
Research interests: Metabolic interdependencies within soil dwelling bacteria. Evolution and maintenance of cooperative interactions. Coevolutionary dynamics within soil microbial communities.
MSc. Linéa Muhsal
linea.muhsal (at) uni-osnabrueck.de                                                                  
​+49 (0) 541 969-3101
Research interests: Coevolutionary dynamics within microbial communities. Genomic and physiological consequences of a synergistic coevolution. Contact-dependent interactions among bacterial cells. Bacterial multicellularity.
MSc. Saskia Wilmsen
saskia.wilmsen (at) uni-osnabrueck.de     
​+49 (0) 541 969-3101                                                         
Research interests: Impact of relatedness on cooperation.     
Evolution of ecological interactions in different species.    ​
MSc. Benedikt Pauli
benedikt.pauli (at) uni-osnabrueck.de     
​+49 (0) 541 969-2255                                                         
Research interests: Emergence, development and regulatory mechanisms of bacterial interaction within artificial and natural metabolic networks. With reference to involved membrane structures of the nanotubes.    ​
MSc. Sharvari Harshe
sharshe (at) uni-osnabrueck.de     
​+49 (0) 541 969-7141                                                        
Research interests: Metabolic interdependencies within soil dwelling bacteria. Evolution and maintenance of cooperative interactions. Coevolutionary dynamics within soil microbial communities.
M.Tech. Swagatika Dash
sdash(at) uni-osnabrueck.de   
​+49 (0) 541 969-7141                                                        
Research interests: Impact of biotic interactions on the establishment of soil bacterial communities: interplay between synergism and antagonism. Phenotypic heterogeneity within isogenic bacterial populations: causes and functional benefits.
Technical assistants & Staff
Diplom.-Biol. Antje Moehlmeyer
antje.moehlmeyer (at) uni-osnabrueck.de                                                   
​+49 (0) 541 969-2835
Technical Assistant Susana Pereira
susana.pereira(at)uni-osnabrueck.de                                                   
​+49 (0) 541 969-2255
Technical Assistant Björn Reiling
breiling(at)uni-osnabrueck.de                                                  
​+49 (0) 541 969-2255
Technical Assistant Saskia Schuback
saskia.schuback (at) uni-osnabrueck.de                                                   
​+49 (0) 541 969-2835
Master Students
B.Sc. Michael Itermann
 mitermann(at)uni-osnabrueck.de                                                        
​ +49 (0) 541 969-3101
Research interests: Effect of auxotrophies on the amino acid uptake rate. Fitness benefits caused by gene loss. Distribution of amino acid auxotrophs within natural bacterial communities.
 B.Sc. Andreas Messer
 amesser(at)uni-osnabrueck.de                                                        
​ +49 (0) 541 969-3101
Research interests: Cognition and learning in bacteria. The role of memory in learning and evolution. Philosophy/Theory of Science.
 B.Sc. Jenna Boy
 jboy(at)uni-osnabrueck.de                                                        
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Research interests: Diffuse synergistic coevolution of mutualism in bacteria.
Bachelor Students
 B.Sc. Brian Gaertner
 bgaertner(at)uni-osnabrueck.de                                                        
​ +49 (0) 541 969-2255
Research interests: Bacterial dynamics in diverse auxotrophic communities. Especially cross-feeding of auxotrophic partners in relation to their abundance in a community.
 B.Sc. Nikolas Westerwiede Barros
 nwesterwiede(at)uni-osnabrueck.de                                                        
​ +49 (0) 541 969-3101
Research interests: Classification of bacteria with Machine Learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.
Past Members (Alumni)
Technical assistants
Eva Limpinsel   (2016-2017)
Bianca Altmann (2017-2018)
Marita Hermann (2018-2020)
Postdoctoral students
Dr. rer. nat. Chong Becker  (2017)
Dr. Piyali Pal Chowdhury  (2016-2020)
Master students
MSc. 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)
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)
Internship students
Ramya Ganesan (2017)
Iqra Rafik Kasu (2019)
Aditi Shekhar (2021)
Doctoral students
Dr. Samay Pande             PhD Thesis: "Ecological mechanisms that stabilize cooperative cross-feeding interactions in bacteria"  (2010-2014)    
​Now at ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Dr. Glen D'Souza             PhD Thesis: "The evolution of metabolic dependency in bacteria" (2011-2016)                  
​Now at ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Dr. Silvio Waschina        PhD Thesis: "Evolutionary systems biology of bacterial metabolic adaptation" (2012-2016)                  
​Now at ​Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
Dr. Shraddha Shitut      PhD Thesis: "Mechanistic and metabolic basis of bacterial cross-feeding" (2013-2017)
Now at the Institute of Biology in Leiden, The Netherlands
Dr. Daniel Preußger      PhD Thesis: "The evolution of metabolic cooperation in bacterial communities – causes and consequences" (2013-2020) Now at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute in Jena, Germany 
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Dietel​      PhD Thesis: "Identifying the molecular causes for the commonly observed AT-bias in endosymbiont genomes​" (2013-2020) 
Dr. Samir Giri​      PhD Thesis: "Ecological and evolutionary drivers of metabolic cross-feeding" (2015-2021) 
​Now at EMBL in Heidelberg working with Typas Nassos.
Dr. André Bogdanowski      PhD Thesis: "Individual-based modeling of microbial systems under consideration of consumer-resource interactions and evolution" (2018-2022)