Graduates
Congratulations to all our graduates who succesfully completed the program and defended their thesis!
Timothy Chege Kuria, Dr. rer. nat.
M.Sc. Vaccinology and Drug Development (University of Siena)
Member since 01/2021 | Start of doctoral project 01/2021
Date of defense: 05.04.2024
Chair of Genetics | Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Winkler
Project title: Signaling circuits involved in the selection of high-affinity antigen-specificB cells in the germinal center
Occupation after the GRK2599:
- Postdoc (holder of the GRK2599 start-up grant), AG Thomas Winkler, Chair of Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Postdoc, AG Donna Faber, Columbia University New York
Ariful Haque Abir, Dr. rer. nat.
M.Sc. Pharmacy in Pharmacology and clinical Pharmacy (North South University Dhaka-1229)
Member since 01/2021 | Start of doctoral project 01/2021
Date of defense: 29.05.2024
Division of Molecular Immunology / Department of Medicine 1 | Supervisor: Prof. Dirk Mielenz / Dimitrios Mougiakakos
Project title: Glycolytic Flux as a Checkpoint of Human Th1 Cell Differentiation
Occupation after the GRK2599:
- Postdoc (holder of the GRK2599 start-up grant), AG Dirk Mielenz, Department of Molecular Immunology, Department of Medicine 3, University Hopsital Erlangen
- Postdoc, AG Gerhard Krönke, Charité Berlin
Katharina Knab, Dr. rer. nat.
M.Sc. Integrated Immunology (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Member since 01/2021 | Start of doctoral project 01/2021
Date of defense: 25.06.2024
Department of Medicine 3 | Supervisor: Prof. Gerhard Krönke
Project title: Dissecting the functional diversity of macrophage subsets in inflammation and resolution during rheumatoid arthritis
Occupation after the GRK2599:
- Postdoc, AG Gerhard Krönke, Department of Medicine 3, University Hospital Erlangen
Marie Steffensen, Dr. rer. nat.
M.Sc. Integrated Immunology (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Member since 01/2021 | Start of doctoral project 01/2021
Date of defense: 27.09.2024
Chair of Genetics | Supervisor: Prof. Lars Nitschke
Project title: The Role of Siglec-G and Dnase mutations in the development of SLE
Occupation after the GRK2599:
- Patent examiner in the field of vaccinations and antibody therapies, European Patent Office, The Hague
Atefeh Sadeghi Shermeh, Dr. rer. nat.
M.Sc. Medical Immunology (Iran University of Medical Science)
Member since 03/2021 | Start of doctoral project 03/2021
Date of Defense: 04.11.2024
Department of Immune Modulation | Supervisor: Prof. Alexander Steinkasserer
Project title: Role of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in the Induction of Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells
Roxana Zogorean, Dr. rer. nat.
M.Sc. Developmental Biology and the influence of exogenous factors on organisms (West University of Timisoara)
Member since 01/2021 | Start of doctoral project 01/2021
Date of defense: 16.12.2024
Department of Medicine 1 | Supervisor: Prof. Stefan Wirtz
Project title: The role of the transcription factor interferon regulatory factor 1 (IRF1) for intestinal B cell homeostasis
Shannon Menzel (née Ottmann)
M.Sc. Geoecology (Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen)
Member since 01/2021 | Start of doctoral project 01/2021
Division of Molecular Immunology | Supervisor: Prof. Hans-Martin Jäck
Project title: The role of B Cell Maturation Antigen (BCMA) in long-lived plasma cell survival
Carolina Riemer, Dr. rer. nat.
Accelerated B.Sc./M.Sc. Molecular Biology (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Member since 02/2021 | Start of doctoral project 02/2021
Date of defense: 28.03.2025
Chair of Genetics | Supervisor: Prof. Anja Lux
Project title: The role of DCIR1 in adaptive immunity
Estelle Tcheumi Tactoum, Dr. rer. nat.
M.Sc. Biological Science (University of Camerino)
Member since 01/2021 | Start of doctoral project 01/2021
Date of defense: 02.04.2025
Department of Medicine 3 | Supervisor: Prof. Aline Bozec
Project title: The role of VHL in B cell responses and rheumatoid arthritis