alumni
Cristian González-Cabrera(PostDoc)
2020 - 2025
Cristian remains at the LIN, continuing his research in the Department of Cellular Neuroscience [link].
All the Best Cristian!
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Ernesto Duran (PostDoc)
2022 - 2024
Ernesto continues his work on sleep and the involvement of the locus coeruleus in the lab of Nikos Logothetis at the International Center for Primate Brain Research in Singapore [link].
Good Luck Ernesto!
Maria-Paz Contreras Santander (PostDoc)
2022 - 2024
Maria continues her research in the lab of Nikos Logothetis at the International Center for Primate Brain Research [link].
Good Luck Maria!
Katharina Draggendorf (animal specialist)
2021 - 2025
Katharina chose a new life path and is now entering a monastery to become a nun.
Celina Dölle (technical assistant)
2021 - 2025
celina.doelle@lin-magdeburg.de
Celina is now supporting the Comparative Neuroscience group (Vergleichende Neurowissenschaften).
Csilla Novak (Master + student assistant)
2022 - 2025
Csilla completed her challenging project on developing viral tools for inducing neuromelanin. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. in the Brecht Lab at the Bernstein Center in Berlin [link]
Rafael Parker (Master + student assistant)
2022 - 2024
Rafael completed his work on rule learning in a T-maze task and involmentof the locus coeruleus. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. in the Schmitz Lab at Charité [link]
Pauline Jakobs (Master + student assistant)
2023 - 2024
paulinejakobs@gmail.com
Pauline completed an excellent Master’s thesis in our lab and is now pursuing her Ph.D. at the OvGU Clinic in Experimental Pediatrics and Neonatology with Prof. Brunner-Weinzierl [link]
Guilherme Monteiro Gomes (PostDoc)
2023
ggomes [2] lin-mageburg.de
Guilherme joined our team for a brief yet impactful period to help to complete several projects. His time with us, though efficient, was regrettably short. He has now moved on to Raffaella Tonini's lab at IIT in Genova.
Thanks for Everything - Good Luck!
Thomaz M. C. Fabrin (PostDoc)
2021 - 2023 (CAPES - AvH Fellow)
thomaz-cm [2] utfpr.edu.br
Thomaz cracked open an optogenetic treasure chest and found a whole bunch of new opsin in South American chilids. Stay tuned for some ultra-light-sensitive optogenetic tools. Thomaz continues to work on developing new tools at Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná in Brazil (https://www.utfpr.edu.br).
Tony finished his excellent Master's thesis, and started his Ph.D. with our close collaborator and next-door research group the Department of Systems Physiology of Learning here at LIN [link]
It was a pleasure, Tony! Keep on rocking!
Tony de Schulz (Master)
2020 - 2021
tony.de.schulz [2] lin-magdeburg.de
Shristi Baral (Master)
2020 - 2012
shristi.baral [2] aalto.fi
Shristi defended her Master's thesis and now sarted a Ph.D. in the group of Computational Modeling of Human Cognition @ Aalto University in Finland [link].
Good luck Shristi!
Quinn Waselenchuk (Master)
2021
qwaselen [2] ualberta.ca
Quinn came to us from the lab of Klaus Ballanyi @ the University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada. He was interested to explore optogenetically-defined inputs to the LC and how they impact the rhythmic activity of the nucleus.
Quinn is now doing his Ph.D. in the MPI for Biophysics [link]
Iris Juarez Leal (guest)
EMBO student 2020
ijuarez [2] umh.es
Iris joined us for three month as a short-term EMBO fellow from the Instituto de Neurociencias Alicante. She was eager to learn everything on optogenetics from viral injections to implants to behavior. She will now use her new skills in her Ph.D. project to stimulate septal outputs to the lateral habenula.
Daniel Giffney (guest)
giffneyd [2] tcd.ie
Daniel left us after too many hurdles to get his neuroscience bachelor's degree from Ireland accepted here in Germany to begin his fast-track Ph.D. He is now in Edinburgh in Peter Kindle's lab.
Damaris Holder
Ph.D. student
damaris.holder [@] lin-magdeburg.de
Unexpectedly, Damaris decide to leave us. She now joints the lab of Prof. S. Remy - good luck Damaris!
Stefanie Hillert
Lab Manager (2018 - 2019)
stefanie.hillert [2] web.de
Stefanie changed her name (Bühnemann) and is now on maternal leave. She will be starting a new job with a long-term contract at the Landeskriminalamt Sachsen-Anhalt in Magdeburg.