Principal Investigator

Christian R Voolstra

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Marine ecology, Marine microbiology

Postdoctoral Fellows

Anny Cárdenas

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Marine microbiology

Ben C.C. Hume

Research Interests: Marine microbiology, Marine ecology, Bioinformatics, Genomics

Claudia Pogoreutz

Research Interests: Marine microbiology, Biological networks and interactions, Marine ecology, Genomics

PhD Students

Alison Monroe

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Marine ecology

Carol Buitrago

Research Interests: Genomics, Marine ecology

Lucrezia C. Bonzi

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics

Nils Rädecker

Research Interests: Marine microbiology, Marine ecology, Biological networks and interactions, Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system

Rúben Costa

Research Interests: Biological networks and interactions

Alumni

Amanda Shore

​visiting PhD student​

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Marine microbiology

Anand Radhakrishnan

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Biological networks and interactions

Anna Roik

PhD class of 2016

Research Interests: Marine ecology

Anny Cardénas

visiting PhD student

Research Interests: Marine microbiology, Marine ecology

Areej Hussain

M.Sc. Class of Winter 2011 ​ currently: Research Engineer
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirate

Arjen Tilstra

Visiting PhD Student

Research Interests: Genomics, Marine ecology, Marine microbiology

Aubrie O'Rourke

PhD Class of 2015

Research Interests: Biological networks and interactions

Camille Daniels

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Genomics, Marine ecology, Marine microbiology

Caroline Dubé

​Visiting PostDoc

Research Interests: Genomics, Marine microbiology

Carsten Grupstra

VSRP Student​​

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Marine ecology

Chatchanit Arif

PhD Class of 2014

Research Interests: Genomics, Marine microbiology

Chieh Jhen Chen (Erin)

PhD student
currently: University Hsinchu, Taiwan

Christian Jessen

PhD student at ZMT Bremen, Germany

Research Interests: Marine ecology

Claudia Pogoreutz

Visiting PostDoc​​​​

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Marine microbiology

Cornelia Roder

Postdoctoral Fellow

Craig Michell

​​Next-generation sequencing research technician​​

Danielle Gaitor

​VS​RP Intern​

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics

Eslam Osman

visiting PhD student from Suggett lab at University of Essex, UK

Research Interests: Marine ecology

Eulalia Banguera

Postdoctoral Fellow

Fahmi Machda

M.Sc. ​Class of 2010
currently: Qontrib

Francesca Gizzi

Visiting PhD student

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Marine microbiology

Gabriela Perna

VSRP Student​

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Genomics, Marine microbiology

Ghaida Hadaidi

PhD Class of 2018

Research Interests: Genomics, Marine microbiology

Hagen Gegner

PhD Class of 2018

Research Interests: Genomics, Marine microbiology, Marine ecology

Hajar AlReefi

SRSI student 2013

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Marine microbiology

Hanover Matz

VSRP Intern

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics

Jan Brüwer

VSRP intern​​

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics

Janna Leigh Randle

Research Interests: Genomics, Marine ecology

Javier Villa Lizcano

M.Sc. ​Class of Summer 2012​
currently: Groncol Product Researcher

Jin Ye

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics

Lauren K. Yum

PhD Class of 2014

Research Interests: Genomics, Marine microbiology

Lojain Azizalrahman

SRSI student 2015

Lucie Malard

VSRP intern

Research Interests: Biological networks and interactions, Genomics

Manuel Aranda

Postdoctoral Fellow
currently: Assistant Professor, Marine Science, KAUST

Marcelle Muniz Barreto

VSRP Student​

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Marine microbiology, Genomics

Maren Kruse

visiting PhD student
currently: PhD student ZMT Bremen, Germany

Maren Ziegler

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Genomics, Marine microbiology

Marie Griesmar

Artist​

Matthew Neave

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Genomics, Marine microbiology

Mohammad Binsarhan

M.Sc. class of 2016

Norú Ichim-Moreno

​PhD student currently: Co-founder & CEO at SeedShock

Parsifal Islas Morales

Masters student

Research Interests: Marine microbiology, Scientific visualization

Pu Yin

​Lab Technician

Rand Lahig

SRSI student 2013

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Marine microbiology

Reem AlRabiah

SRSI student 2012
currently: College preparation year, University of Pennsylvania

Sebastian Baumgarten

PhD class of 2016

Research Interests: Genomics

Shobhit Agrawal

Visiting PhD student​

Research Interests: Genomics, Bioinformatics

Stephan Kremb

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Genomics, Marine ecology, Marine microbiology

Theresa Maria Rock

Visiting PhD student

Research Interests: Genomics

Thor Jensen

Intern

Research Interests: Genomics, Marine ecology

Till Bayer

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Marine microbiology

Till Röthig

PhD Class of 2017

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Marine microbiology

Vanessa Robitzch

Research Interests: Biological networks and interactions, Genomics, Marine ecology

Xianzhe Gong

​M.Sc. ​Class of Summer 2012
currently: seeking a PhD position

Research Interests: Bioinformatics

Yi Zhang

Lab technician​

Yusuf C. El-Khaled

​Visiting PhD Student​

Research Interests: Biological networks and interactions, Marine ecology, Marine microbiology