Molecular Plant Sciences, April 2025
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April, 2025

Team

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Prof. Dr. Boas Pucker

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

Sarah
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Sarah Schwirblat (Technician)
SNM
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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
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Shakunthala Natarajan (Doctoral student)

Email: s64snata[a]uni-bonn.de

ORCID: 0000-0002-4713-2380

Research interests: gene duplication

Publications:

Katharina Wolff
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Nancy Choudhary
© Nancy Choudhary

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 Vieira Salgado de Oliveira
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    Julie Anne V.S. de Oliveira

    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)
    • 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)
    NK
    © NK

    Najnin Khatun (starting October 2025)

    Email: tba

    ORCID:

    Research interests: anthocyanin biosynthesis evolution

    Marie Hagedorn
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    Marie Hagedorn (BSc student)

    Email: mhagedo1[a]uni-bonn.de

    ORCID: 0009-0009-1312-0531

    Research interests: plant biology, scientific illustration design

    Maeva Houle
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    Maeva Houle (MSc student)

    Email: mhou2[a]uni-bonn.de

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

    Julius Krupke
    © Julius Krupke

    Julius Krupke (BSc student)

    Email: s6jukrup[a]uni-bonn.de

    Research interests: Chalcone isomerase

    Tim Katzek
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    Tim Katzek (BSc student)

    Email: s6tikatz[a]uni-bonn.de

    Research interest: Genetics, Molecular Biology

    Antoine Padilla
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    Antoine Padilla (BSc student)

    Email: s35apadi[a]uni-bonn.de

    Research interests: anthocyanin biosynthesis enzymes

    Karsten Georgi
    © Karsten Georgi

    Karsten Georgi (MSc student)

    Email: kgeo[a]uni-bonn.de

    Research interests: bioinformatic tool development

    Chiara Dassow
    © Chiara Dassow

    Chiara Maria Dassow (BSc student, external)

    Email: cdassow[a]uni-bonn.de

    Research interests: Synthetic biology, ONT sequencing, plant pigments

    SL
    © SL

    Sofía Lara (MSc student)

    Email: s32slara[a]uni-bonn.de

    Research interests: biodiversity and systematics, plant genomics

    Publications: tba

    Michelle Alexander
    © Alexander

    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
    © America Cox

    America Cox (Visiting researcher)

    Email: acox1313[a]uni-bonn.de

    Research interests: Lentibulariaceae genomics and transcriptomics

    Alegria
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    Alegria Proano (Visiting researcher)

    Email: alegpro[a]uni-bonn.de

    Research interests: Lentibulariaceae genomics and transcriptomics

    Aidan
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    Aidan Jones  (Visiting researcher)

    Email: ajones75[a]uni-bonn.de

    Research interests: pigmentation differences at genomic and transcriptomic level

    Avery
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    Avery Rahe (Visiting researcher)

    Email: arahe2[a]uni-bonn.de

    Research interests: Negative regulators of anthocyanin biosynthesis

    Caroline
    © Caroline Clouatre

    Caroline Clouatre  (Visiting researcher)

    Email: cclouat1[a]uni-bonn.de

    Research interests: Lentibulariaceae genomics and transcriptomics

    Adrian
    © Adrian Lee
    Adrian Lee  (Visiting researcher)

    Email: tba

    Research interests: Lentibulariaceae genomics and transcriptomics

    Ilgin
    © İlgin Yağmur Hacısalihoğlu

    İlgin Yağmur Hacısalihoğlu (Visiting researcher, starting July 2025)

    Email: ilgin888[a]uni-bonn.de

    Research interests: conserved amino acid residues in enzymes

    Ceren
    © Ceren Karapinar

    Ceren Karapinar (Visiting researcher, starting July 2025)

    Email: tba

    Research interests: conserved amino acid residues in enzymes

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