People

Principal investigator
   Prof. Dr. Silke Werth: Molecular ecology, genetics and genomics of lichens

Post Docs
   Dr. Julia Gerasimova: Gene expression in Lobaria pulmonaria

PhD students
   Jasmin Almer: Gene expression in Peltigera
   Andrea J. Goss: Phylogeography and gene expression in Sticta canariensis
   Carly Russell: Bird dispersal of fungi
   Reynir Freyr Reynisson: Gene expression and metabolomics of Peltigera lichens
   Kailin Sun: Phylogeography of Myricaria

MSc students
   Vigneshwarr Boopathy: Gene expression in Lobaria pulmonaria

BSc students
   Raphael Borghi: Gene expression in green algae
   Suzanne Geigges: Species diversity of epiphytic lichens in oak forests
   Lisa Kühne: Gene expression in lichen fungi (starting soon)
   Chiara Peters: Temperature tolerance of green algae
   Rowan Rejmers: Genetic diversity of Crocodia aurata
   Paul Scheytt: Species diversity of epiphytic lichens in oak forests
   Danai Vantaraki: Genetic diversity of Crocodia aurata photobionts
   Carla Vogel: Temperature tolerance of green algae

Lab personnel
   Andrea Brandl: axenic cultures, TLC, logistics
   Tanja Ernst: molecular biology, orders

Visitors
   Prof. Richard Beckett, KwaZulu Natal University, South Africa (2022 + 2023)
   Prof. Jouko Rikkinen, University of Helsinki (2022)

Former labmembers
Post docs
   Dr. Tania Chavarria Pizarro (now post doc at University of Münster)
   Dr. Philipp Resl (now post doc at Karl-Franzens University of Graz)
PhD students
  Daniel Juarez (development of a pipeline to assess the quality of read mappings)
  Julia Gerasimova (now post doc with us, soon to move to Senckenberg, Frankfurt)
MSc students
   Andrea Goss (now PhD student with in our lab)
   Daniel Juarez (later employed to write up his research)
   Tobias Karlowski (now MSc student at TU Munich)
   Peter Meidl (now PhD student at FU Berlin)
   Carly Russell (now PhD student with us)
   Kailin Sun (now PhD student with us)
   Christopher Tominello Ramirez (now PhD student at TU Munich)
BSc students
   Erik Betz
   Tanjana M. Brauße
   Isabella C. Buschmann (now in MSc Plant Sciences at LMU)
   Alina Colic Ismail
   Stefan Dehos (now in MSc Evolution, Ecology & Systematics at LMU)
   Christopher Engert (now growing mushrooms in Allgäu)
   Benedict Hempel (now in MSc Molecular Cell Biology at LMU) 
   Junpyo Kim
   Stefanie Kohl
   Katja Pöllot (now in MSc Plant Sciences at LMU)
   Alicia Resch
   Maximilian Schneider (now growing mushrooms in Allgäu)
   Veronica Sebald (now MSc student at TU Munich)
   Theresia Söllner
   Johannes Speer (now BSc student at TU Munich)
   Karoline Wacker
   Theresa Weisheit
   Maja Wyczanska
Teacher's students
    Christian Dullinger
    Adrian J. Goudschmid
    Maximilian Heiß
    Agnes Hofner
    Annalena Pracht
    Hannah Sauer
Research interns
   Jade Bourenane-Vieira (now MSc student at University of Grenoble)
   Helen Krause (now MSc student at LMU Munich)