Group leader

Dr. Janina Rahlff
affiliated to the FSU Jena, Germany and
Linnaeus University, Sweden

PhD Environmental Science and Biodiversity
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany

MSc Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries Science
University of Hamburg, Germany

BSc (Hons) Life Sciences
Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

BSc Psychology
FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

Current research topics: surface microlayer and air-associated virus-host interactions

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Ritam Das

PhD Student at International Max Planck Research School for Biology And Computation, Berlin (ongoing)

MSc Molecular Life Sciences
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

BSc Life Science
University of Delhi, India

Current research topics: microbial defence systems, GC in bacteriophages

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Dr. Abida Bano

PhD Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
University of the Punjab, Pakistan
Split-site PhD commonwealth scholar (Penades Lab) Imperial College London, UK m

MSc/MPhil, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
University of the Punjab, Pakistan

BSc Microbiology, Genetics, Biochemistry
University of the Punjab, Pakistan

Current research topics: rainwater microbiome, antimicrobial resistance genes

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Students

Rilwan Lawal

MSc Molecular Life Sciences (ongoing)
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

BSc Bachelor of Science (Hons) Biochemistry, Babcock University, Ogun-Nigeria


Current research topics: viromics of Arctic soils

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Tobias Freitag

BSc Biology (ongoing)
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany


Current research topics: volcanic ash bacterial diversity, prophage induction

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External PhD/Mentee
-Anna Zueva, Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz

Former group members
-Nicholas Eves
-Yeo Tze Ching
-Bingli Chai
-Saloni