The Team

Lara Urban

PI

lara.h.urban@gmail.com

Interested in all of the research below:)

Also: Fieldwork, outdoor swimming, Politics & Philosophy

Albert Perlas Puente

Team leader & post-doctoral fellow

albert.perlaspuente@helmholtz-munich.de

Real-time and portable genomics for viral surveillance in the field

Also: Hiking, Wildlife, Sailing

Ela Djamila Sauerborn

Medical doctor & PhD student

ela.sauerborn@helmholtz-munich.de

Real-time metagenomics for rapid pathogen detection and resistance predictions in bloodstream infections

Also: Pilates, Writing, Music

Anastasiia Grekova

EMBL PhD student (Bork group)

Microbiome studies using nanopore sequencing

Also: Alpinism, Coding, Poetry

Daniel Gygax

PhD student

Daniel.Gygax@helmholtz-munich.de

Evolutionary genomics and conservation genetics

Also: Fitness, Reading, Nature 

Tim Reska

PhD student

timthilomaria.reska@helmholtz-munich.de

Environmental genomics & transcriptomics analyses

Also: Fitness, Reading, Cooking

Harika Urel

PhD student

harikamuazzez.urel@helmholtz-munich.de

Deep learning for pathogen detection

Also: Yoga, Reading, Movies

Samir Vargas da Fonseca Atum

Post-doctoral & CAPES/HIDA fellow

samir.atum@usp.br

Freshwater monitoring

Also: Archery, Hiking, Reading

Visitors and Alumni

Camila Acosta-López 

Associate Professor & HIDA fellowship recipient

Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador

Eddie Martin

PhD student & EASTBIO DTP recipient

University of Edinburgh

Valentin Rauscher

BSc student

Technical University of Munich

Amir Reza Varzandi

PhD student & Erasmus+ recipient

University of Turin

Linus Hoelzel

MSc student

linus.hoelzel@helmholtz-munich.de

Genomics, causality, systems biology

Also: Volleyball, Chess, Card games

Fazal Adnan

Associate Professor & HIDA fellowship recipient

National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad