Current lab members

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Markus Stetter

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

PhD students

José Dias

José is a PhD student studying introgression during grain amaranth domestication and its influence on the crop’s genome biology.

Kerstin Schulz

Kerstin is a PhD student and part of the CEPLAS graduate school. Kerstin employs ancestral recombination graphs to study the evolution of maize

Master students

Tom Winkler

Tom is a master student studying the genomic distribution of MYB transcription factors in the amaranth genome and their involvement in metabolic pathways

Student helpers and interns

Julio Martinez

Julio is a master student wroking on the molecular validation of domestication genes in grain amaranth.

Ahad Kazmi

Ahad is a biochemistry master student wroking on long read sequencing in amaranth.

Lucas Weber

Lucas is a CEPLAS intern establishing differnt mapping populations for amaranth.

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Lab alumni

Sophie Schreiner (BSc student)
Tom Winkler (BSc student)

Past Visitors

Cátia José Neves
Sabarna Bhattacharyya