
April, 2025
Team

Email: pucker[a]uni-bonn.de
(students should read instructions before contacting)
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:

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

Email: julievso[a]uni-bonn.de
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)

Najnin Khatun (starting October 2025)
Email: tba
ORCID:
Research interests: anthocyanin biosynthesis evolution

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


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: cdassow[a]uni-bonn.de
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: male[a]uni-bonn.de
ORCID: 0009-0008-3159-4629
Research interests: plant bioinformatics, functional annotation

America Cox (Visiting researcher)
Email: acox1313[a]uni-bonn.de
Research interests: Lentibulariaceae genomics and transcriptomics

Alegria Proano (Visiting researcher)
Email: alegpro[a]uni-bonn.de
Research interests: Lentibulariaceae genomics and transcriptomics

Email: ajones75[a]uni-bonn.de
Research interests: pigmentation differences at genomic and transcriptomic level

Avery Rahe (Visiting researcher)
Email: arahe2[a]uni-bonn.de
Research interests: Negative regulators of anthocyanin biosynthesis

Caroline Clouatre (Visiting researcher)
Email: cclouat1[a]uni-bonn.de
Research interests: Lentibulariaceae genomics and transcriptomics

Email: tba
Research interests: Lentibulariaceae genomics and transcriptomics

İlgin Yağmur Hacısalihoğlu (Visiting researcher, starting July 2025)
Email: ilgin888[a]uni-bonn.de
Research interests: conserved amino acid residues in enzymes

Ceren Karapinar (Visiting researcher, starting July 2025)
Email: tba
Research interests: conserved amino acid residues in enzymes

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