Team

April, 2025

Prof. Dr. Boas Pucker

Email: pucker[a]uni-bonn.de

ORCID: 0000-0002-3321-7471

GitHub: bpucker

Google Scholar: Boas Pucker

Office (IZMB): Sandra Krüger - Tel.: 0228 / 73 2130, Fax.: 0228 / 736183

Samuel Nestor Meckoni (Doctoral student)

Email: meckoni[a]uni-bonn.de

ORCID: 0000-0003-4877-8762

Mastodon: @samnm@mstdn.science

Research interests: heterologous drug (candidate) production, aquatic plants, genomics

Publications:

Shakunthala Natarajan (Doctoral student)

Email: s64snata[a]uni-bonn.de

ORCID: 0000-0002-4713-2380

Research interests: gene duplication

Publications:

Katharina Wolff (Doctoral student)

Email: s37kwolf[a]uni-bonn.de

ORCID: 0000-0002-3616-0482

Research interests: dark pigmentation, plant genomics, long read sequencing

Publications:

Nancy Choudhary (Doctoral student)

Email: n.choudhary[a]uni-bonn.de

ORCID: 0000-0002-2562-7905

Research interests: withanolides, substrate preferences of flavonoid biosynthesis enzymes, evolution of the flavonoid biosynthesis, applied bioinformatics

Publications:

Julie Anne V.S. de Oliveira (starting May 2025)

Email: tba

ORCID: 0000-0001-9930-6373

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-anne-oliveira/

Research interests: plant genetics and molecular biology, genomics, sequencing and genome editing

Publications:

Recurrent selection in Passiflora: a new approach for the development of cowpea aphid-borne mosaic virus resistant cultivars with desired agronomic traits (link)

Genetic variability and population structure in guava full-sib families via microsatellite markers (link)
Genetic-molecular characterization in guava full-sib progeny (link)
Bayesian ridge regression shows the best fit for SSR markers in Psidium guajava among Bayesian models (link)

Najnin Khatun (starting June 2025)

Email: tba

ORCID:

Research interests: anthocyanin biosynthesis evolution

Marie Hagedorn (BSc student)

Email: mhagedo1[a]uni-bonn.de

ORCID: 0009-0009-1312-0531

Research interests: plant biology, scientific illustration design

Maeva Houle (MSc student)

Email: mhou2[a]uni-bonn.de

Research interests: Plant Biology, Flower Pigmentation, Iron sulfur cluster, Auxin and Genetics

Julius Krupke (BSc student)

Email: s6jukrup[a]uni-bonn.de

Research interests: Chalcone isomerase

Tim Katzek (BSc student)

Email: s6tikatz[a]uni-bonn.de

Research interest: Genetics, Molecular Biology

Antoine Padilla (BSc student)

Email: s35apadi[a]uni-bonn.de

Research interests: anthocyanin biosynthesis enzymes

Karsten Georgi (MSc student)

Email: kgeo[a]uni-bonn.de

Research interests: bioinformatic tool development

Chiara Maria Dassow (BSc student, external)

Email: tba

Research interests: Synthetic biology, ONT sequencing, plant pigments

Sofía Lara (MSc student)

Email: s32slara[a]uni-bonn.de

Research interests: biodiversity and systematics, plant genomics

Publications: tba

Michelle Alexander (MSc student, starting June 2025)

Email: tba

Research interests: plant bioinformatics, functional annotation

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