Team

Claus-D. Kuhn, Heisenberg Professor for RNA Biochemistry
Claus is and always has been interested in understanding how RNAs and proteins interact and how these interactions bring about biological function. He is a structural biologist by training, however, his group's interests have evolved and are now centered around RNA biochemistry and its combination with functional genomics approaches to decipher the function (and structure) of non-coding RNAs and their respective protein binding partners.
Scientific CV

E-mail: claus.kuhn@uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4356, Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/clausdkuhn.bsky.social

Vladyslava (Vlada) Gorbovytska, Postdoc
Vlada studies enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) and their impact on promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II. She is investigating the biological function of eRNAs by combining biochemistry, next-gen sequencing and structural biology.

E-mail: vlada.gorbovytska@uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4351, -4354 or -4386

Heghnar Martirosyan, Research technician
Heghnar is involved in all research projects in the lab, in particular all things related to enhancer RNAs and their function in Pol II transcription.

E-mail: heghnar.martirosyan@uni-bayreuth.de
Phone +49 (0)921 / 55-4391 or -4354

Constantin Höhn, PhD student
Constantin studied the m6A pathway in planarians and is currently intrigued by Pol II pause release and human cell culture.

E-mail: constantin.hoehn@uni-bayreuth.de
Phone +49 (0)921 / 55-4354 or -4353

Simone Keß, PhD Student
Simone is intrigued by enhancer RNAs in zebrafish and aims to decipher their genomic location and function during zebrafish neurogenesis. Moreover, she studies piRNAs and their role in mRNA surveillance in planarian stem cells.

E-mail: simone.kess@uni-bayreuth.de
Phone +49 (0)921 / 55-4391 or -4354

Melinda Mautner, PhD student
Melinda studies the enzymatic properties and biological function of SMEDWI-2, an essential planarian PIWI protein.

E-mail: melinda.mautner@uni-bayreuth.de
Phone +49 (0)921 / 55-4354 or -4353

Andreas Pittroff, PhD student and bioinformatician
Andreas is at the core of our bioinformatics expertise. He primarily works on eRNAs, piRNAs and m6A.

E-mail: andreas.pittroff@uni-bayreuth.de
Phone +49 (0)921 / 55-4353

Alumni

Simon Eckert, Master student

Now at FU Berlin as a PhD student.

Luca Blindzellner, Master Student

Now at Axolabs GmbH in Kulmbach, Germany

Tim Demtröder, PhD student

Now at Axolabs GmbH in Kulmbach, Germany.

Kai Müller, Bachelor Student

Now Master studies at the University of Gießen, Germany.

Anahita Ebrahimpour

Now PhD Student at the Chair of Nutritional Chemistry, University of Bayreuth

Meret Kuck, Master Student

Now PhD Student at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.

Raphael Kaiser, Bachelor Student

Now Master studies at the University of Leipzig.

Fabienne Lindner, Master Student

Theresia Brennecke, Bachelor Student

Now Master Studies in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Bayreuth

Filiz Kuybu, Master Student

Now PhD student in the Hopfner Lab at the Gene Center of the LMU Munich.

https://www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/research-groups/hopfner/index.html

Lisa-Marie Schneider, PhD Student

Dr. Felix Klatt, PhD Student

Now Produktspezialist Bioanalytik at Macherey-Nagel.

Sebastian Riedelbauch, Master Student

Now PhD student in the Andersen Lab at Aarhus University in Denmark

https://mbg.au.dk/en/research/research-areas/gene-expression-gene-medicine/peter-refsing-andersen/

Jonathan Patzke, Master Student

Now PhD student in the Kisker Lab at the University of Würzburg, Germany

https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/rvz/research/research-groups/kisker-group/

Amelie Lindner, Bachelor Student

Now Master Studies in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Bayreuth

Dr. Iana Kim, PhD Student

Now postdoc at CRG in Barcelona (Spain).

https://www.crg.eu/en/programmes-groups/sebe-pedros-lab

Anna Liznar, Master Student

Now Scientific Sales, Marketing & Bioinformatics at siTOOLs Biotech, Martinsried (Germany)

https://twitter.com/siTOOLsBiotech

Silke Spudeit, Lab Technician

Robin Weinmann, Master Student

Now PhD student at German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg (Germany)

https://malone.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/index.html

Ezgi June Olgac, Practical Student, Middle East Technical University in Ankara (Turkey)

Now Master Studies in Genetics and Molecular Biosciences at the University of Helsinki (Finland)

Franziska Langhammer, Master Student

Now PhD student at the University of Erlangen (Germany)

https://www.humangenetik.uk-erlangen.de/en/

Melanie Müller, Master Student

Now PhD student at the University of Düsseldorf (Germany)

Martin Kuric, Master Student

Now PhD student at the University of Würzburg (Germany)

https://www.med.uni-wuerzburg.de/orthopaedie/bernhard-heine-centrum-fuer-bewegungsforschung/grundlagenforschung-muskuloskelettaler-regeneration/stammzellbiologie-und-skelettmetastasen/