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Markus Stetter

Markus is group leader in the Institute for Plant Sciences at the University of Cologne read more




Postdocs

Akanksha Singh

Akanksha studies the introduction history of grain amaranth to India and the sources of adaptive alleles.






Margarita Takou

Margarita studies polygenic selection in an experimental population of European maize.






PhD candidates

Corbinian Graf

Corbinian is a PhD student studying the genetic landscape of grain amaranth and how it changed during the repeated domestication.






Susanne Vollmer

Susanne is a PhD student and part of the CEPLAS graduate school in collaboration with the Hensel lab at HHU. Susanne advances various molecular methods for amaranth and dissects the regulation of seed color adaptation.






Tom Winkler

Tom is a PhD student studying amaranth domestication and the involvement of transcriptomic changes in metabolic pathways






Yuna Zhang

Yuna studies polygenic adaptation and the evolution of trait syndromes as part of the TRR 341








Office

Katharina Borowski

Katharina runs the office and does the paper work magic






Lab manager

Roswitha Lentz

Roswitha runs the wet lab and does the pipetting magic






BSc Thesis

Bartlomiej Chachula

Bartlomiej seed color change during amaranth domestication using AI driven seed phenotyping.






Maria Rodriguez

Maria studie betalain accumulation and its fitness consequences under stress in amaranth.






Carlotta Sehl

Carlotta develops grafting as tool for genome editing in amaranth








Student helpers and interns

Aslinur Aktürk

Aslinur updates AmaranthGDB to the most recent reference genome.






Laura Brüggemann

Laura helps with the plant work and seed handling






Fernanda Daniela Giampaoli

Fernanda helps with wet lab duties.






Luca Weber

Luca studies the impact of a transposable element on domestication traits in amaranth.






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