Hentze Group Alumni Retreat

Amy Cooke (*80) Mehrnoosh Rayner (*71) C 2011-today, Postdoc C 2003-today translational control ALUMNI 2012 Alumni Relations Officer KAUB -

Kathrin Kerschgens (*81) Fátima Gebauer (*63) Mayka Sanchez (*74) A 2007, Master student A 1996-2002 A 2002-2009 Staff scientist, SXL Postdoc, iron team

Hentze lab, EMBL Alumni Relations, EMBL The life & times of RNA People and networks

Thomas Preiss (*65) Claudia Strein (*73) Daniela Casarrubea (*83) Evgeniy Vainshtein (*77) A 1995-2002, Postdoc 2002-2012 2008-today 2003-2009 translation initiation C Technician, SXL & REM C PhD student, iron A Research fellow, iron

Fermentas, CRG, Barcelona IMPPC, Barcelona Translation, mRNA degradation, Translation, RNA-binding proteins, Iron Rare Disorders, Genetic Diagnostics miRNAs non-coding , development, disease IRP-IRE system, Iron and Cancer

Jan Medenbach (*76) Giovanna Bergamini (*68) Nina Papritz (*79) Alfredo Castello Palomares (*79) Martina Muckenthaler (*64) C 2006-2012 A 1999-2002 C 2011-today, 2009-today 1994-2003 Postdoc, SXL Postdoc, IRES translation PA to Associate Director C Postdoc, REM A Staff scientist, iro

Australian National University, Canberra Hentze lab, EMBL Hentze lab, EMBL BioQuant, DKFZ, Heidelberg Translation, microRNA, RNA-binding cCL +PAR CL, stable eGFP cell lines, iron metabolism, IRP/IRE system NGS, nucleosome positioning, proteins, mRNA 3' ends, RNA modification Dualfluorescence assay transcriptomics

Antje Ostareck-Lederer (*65) Rastislav Horos (*82) Niels Gehring (*75) Bruno Galy (*71) A 1995-2001, Postdoc C 2011-today A 1997, Undergraduate 2000-today translation control Postdoc, REM student, iron C Staff scientist, iron

soon University of Regensburg Cellzome, Heidelberg Associate Director‘s Office, EMBL Hentze lab, EMBL University of Heidelberg Regulation of translation initiation, drug discovery, inflammation, Help Matthias to make mRNA interactome, RNA-binding iron metabolism, childhood leukemia, RNP remodeling chemical proteomics the best use of his time! domain, CLIP, REM networks, viruses diagnostics of iron-related disorders

Karsten Beckmann (*75) Sabine Hentze (*59) Patrick Hundsdörfer (*71) Dirk H. Ostareck (*61) John Thiele (*90) A 2001-2006 A 2000-2002, Medical A 2002-2005 A 1995-2002, Postdoc 2012, Undergrad. student PhD student, SXL Research Officer, iron Postdoc, IRES translation control C All Projects/Techniques

University Hospital, RWTH Aachen Hentze lab, EMBL Institute for Genetics, University Hentze lab, EMBL transl. control, mRNA-protein interaction, REM of Cologne iron, gene regulation, cancer, miRNAs, erythropoiesis, TLR4-signaling NMD, exon junction complex mRNA export infection/inflammation

Birgit Schuster (*87) Julie Baron (*76) Christian Thoma (*68) Ennio De Gregorio (*70) C 2012-today 1999-2003, PhD student, A 2002-2007 1996-1999, PhD student PhD student, REM A translation regulation Postdoc, translation A translation initiation

U3 Pharma, Martinsried Practice Heidelberg/Ludwigshafen Charite, Berlin University Hospital, RWTH Aachen Ursinus College, Collegeville therapeutic antibodies, cancer biology, cancer Clinical genetics/ prenatal diagnosis chemotherapy-resistance by apoptosis transl. control, mRNA-protein interaction, Iron Metabolism immunology/immunotherapy, tyrosine kinase dysregulation, Smac mimetics, miRNAs, erythropoiesis, TLR4-signaling

Suzie Kovac (*79) Matthias Hentze (*60) Marija Mihailovic (*75) Renata Stripecke (*65) Anne-Marie Alleaume (*80) C 2011-today 1989- Can't escape! 2005-2006, PhD visitor 1990-1994, PhD student 2012-today Postdoc, iron C Assoc. Director, all projects A transl. regulation A Gene expression C Technician, REM

Hentze lab, EMBL Haemonetics, Lausanne University Med. Center Freiburg Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena lncRNA, RNA binding proteins coagulation disorders diagnosis, translational control, IRES translation, Vaccines, Immunology, Adjuvants, blood donation, blood management RNA-binding proteins Microbiology

Kent Duncan (*72) Stephanie Sumner-Jones (*74) Niki Gray (*67) Britta Schläger (*64) A 2002-2009 1994-1995 A 1990-1995 1989-1998 Postdoc, SXL A Undergrad. student, iron PhD student, iron (IRP) A Technician, iron

Hentze lab, EMBL EMBL European Institute of Oncology, Hannover Medical School Hentze lab, EMBL iron, anemia, chronic inflammation, RNA biology, metabolism, Milan Oncology, hematology, gene therapy, REM hepcidin molecular medicine miRNAs, SILAC, B-cell lymphoma immune therapy, dendritic cells

Francesca Moretti (*83) Ana Quintas (*84) Benedikt Beckmann (*80) A 2007-2012 2011-today PhD student, microRNA 2012, PhD visitor C Postdoc, REM C RNA metabolism

ZMNH, Hamburg University of Oxford University of Edinburgh kobris, Sandhausen Translational control; RNA; CF, gene therapy, lentiviral vectors translational regulation, 3'UTR, PABP, organisational support to the Cellular growth control; neurobiology Dazl, reproduction scientific community

Dunja Ferring-Appel (*75) Elisabeth Zielonka (*83) 2002-today 2012-today C Labmanager, iron C Postdoc, REM

University of Basel Hentze lab, EMBL molecular and cellular neurobiology Centro de Biología Molecular Severo posttranscriptional control, yeast Ochoa (CBMSO), Madrid Viral decapping enzymes

Hentze lab, EMBL Hentze Group Hentze lab, EMBL iron Translational control during Alumni Retreat DNA damage 13-15 July 2012 Kaub am Rhein Germany

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