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We say goodbye to Pin-Jui Kung, a PhD student from National Taiwan University, who recently completed her research sabbatical within the Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2). Her work focused on Parkinson’s disease biomarkers, particularly studying small non-coding RNAs and plasma proteins. We are delighted to congratulate Pin-Jui on the successful defense of her thesis back […]

Dr. Zih-Hua Fang, PhD, from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Lead of the Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program’s (GP2) Monogenic Data Analysis Working Group, presented recent genetics findings and spent a one-week working visit at the Institute of Neurogenetics.

On July 4th Frida Mandik succesfully defended her PhD thesis in which she characterized fly models for neurodegenerative disorders. Congratulations Frida!

Our PhD student, Mirja Thomsen, has been awarded a Visiting Scientist Program Sponsorship from the Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2). This sponsorship will support her three-month research visit at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, USA. During her time at NIA, Mirja will join the

From March to June 2024, Alicia Wenghöfer, BSc, Research Technologist, carried out an internship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland, USA, as part of the Global Parkinson´s Genetics Program GP2. Within her 3-month stay, Alicia learned new methods of processing human DNA samples and generating long-read sequencing data to better understand the

The Institute of Neurogenetics welcomes André Fienemann, a Master’s student from the Molecular Life Science program at the University of Lübeck. André is starting an internship with PD Dr. Joanne Trinh in the group “Integrative Omics Approaches in Parkinson’s Disease”. His previous work includes an internship focused on bulk RNA Sequencing data and tuberculosis susceptibility.André

The Institute of Neurogenetics warmly welcomes Letizia Santinelli. Letizia holds a double Master’s Degree in Medical Biotechnologies from the University of Padua and Molecular Medicine from the University of Ulm. Her research in Ulm focused on the “Investigation of the morphological and molecular effect of the phosphatase PTEN in primary murine Schwann cells”. At the

We welcome Teresa Kleinz to the Institute of Neurogenetics as a clinician scientist. Teresa completed her medical studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum, with further academic stints in Rome and Bologna. Her experience includes working on her doctoral thesis on atypical Parkinsonian syndromes at St. Josef’s Hospital and as a student assistant at the Center for

We are pleased to announce that on February 6, 2024, Dr. Seibler delivered his Inaugural Lecture, entitled “Zellen im Wandel: Personalisierte Zellmodelle für neurologische Erkrankungen durch Reprogrammierung”. The lecture addressed topics of Dr. Seibler’s research approach including the technique of reprogramming patients’ somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and the subsequent differentiation into

Lübeck is represented on the DFG review boards by these five researchers. Curiosity, innovative spirit and thirst for knowledge: funding decisions according to scientific standards The German Research Foundation’s (DFG) review board selection process for 2023 is over. From October 23 to November 20, around 150,000 eligible researchers could vote online to fill 649 places