Group Members
The Niedermeyer group in March 2021. f.l.t.r. Laura Stock, Timo Niedermeyer, Franziska Schanbacher, Anja Wodak, Emmanuel Njoya, Kathrin Kunth, Xenia Rosenbaum, Konstanze Kleine, Kristin Röhrborn, Anke Dettmer, Annegret Pracht, Raphael Reher, Markus Schwark, Diana Barrera Adame
Head of the research group
Tel.: +49 345 55 25765
E-Mail: timo.niedermeyer@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
PostDocs and Senior Scientists
Dr. Emmanuel Mfotie Njoya, Biochemist
Tel.: +49 345 55 25644
Email: emmanuel.njoya@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Dr. Raphael Reher, Pharmacist
Tel.: +49 345 55 25644
E-Mail: raphael.reher@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Dr. Sabine Schuster, Chemist
Tel.: +49 345 55 25644
E-Mail: sabine.schuster@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Ph.D. Students
Diana Barrera Adame, M.Sc. Chemistry
Tel.: +49 345 55 25128
Email: diana.barrera-adame@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Franziska Schanbacher, Pharmacist
Tel.: +49 345 55 25128
E-Mail: franziska.schanbacher@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Laura Stock, Pharmacist
Tel.: +49 345 55 25115
E-Mail: laura.stock@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Lena Höper, Biochemist
Tel.: +49 345 55 25115
E-Mail: lena.hoeper@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Lukas Koch, Biochemist
Tel.: +49 345 55 25644
E-Mail: lukas.koch@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Markus Schwark, Pharmacist
Tel.: +49 345 55 25115
E-Mail: markus.schwark@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Tomasz Chilczuk, M.Sc. Microbiology
Tel.: +49 345 55 25115
E-Mail: tomasz.chilczuk@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Diploma, Bachelor, Master Students
Konstanze Kleine
Kristin Röhrborn
Xenia Rosenbaum
Technicians
Anja Wodak
Tel.: +49 345 55 25109
E-Mail: anja.wodak@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Anke Dettmer
Tel.: +49 345 25768
Email: anke.dettmer@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Office
Kathrin Kunth
Tel.: +49 345 55 25101
E-Mail: kathrin.kunth@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Former Group Members
Ph.D. students
- Dr. Steffen Breinlinger (2021, MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Natural Products from Cyanobacteria)
- Dr. Dominik Wichner (2021, MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Antiinfective Natural Products from Actinomycetes)
- Dr. Ronja Kossack (2021, EKU Tübingen / MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Rhodesain-inhibiting compounds from Cyanobacteria)
- Dr. Julia Moschny (2020, EKU Tübingen / MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Microcystins as Lead Structures for Anticancer Agents)
- Dr. Nico Ortlieb (2019, EKU Tübingen, Characterization of Natural Products from Actinobacteria of the Tübingen Strain Collection)
- Dr. Christian Weissert (2013, Cyano Biofuels GmbH and HU Berlin, System ecology and contamination control; mentorship)
Diploma and MSc students
- Nadja Wilkenshoff (2019, MLU Halle-Wittenberg, influence of a cyanotoxin on C. elegans)
- Katrin Gilbert (2018, EKU Tübingen, Specialized metabolites from hypogaeic fungi)
- Philipp Schneider (2018, EKU Tübingen, Hydrophilic antibacterial natural products from actinomycetes)
- Trang Nguyen (2017, EKU Tübingen, Protease inhibiting natural products from cyanobacteria)
- Matthias Speidel (2016, EKU Tübingen, Natural products from Atacama Desert actinomycetes)
- Tomasz Chilczuk (2016, EKU Tübingen, Quorum sensing inhibitors from cyanobacteria)
- Karin Bretzel (2016, EKU Tübingen, Antibacterial natural products from Streptomyces and Staphylococcus)
- Athanassios Vargiamidis (2015, EKU Tübingen, Identification of a quorum sensing signalling molecule)
- Alina Dagane (2013, Cyano Biotech GmbH and HTW Berlin, Bioactivity testing of cyanobacterial secondary metabolites)
- Kathrin Voigtländer (2012, Cyano Biotech GmbH and TU Berlin, Fermentation monitoring and control)
- Uwe Möginger (2010, Cyano Biotech GmbH and ESB Strasbourg, Fermentation optimisation)
- Judith Weigel (2007, EMAU Greifswald and Riemser Arzneimittel AG, Development and validation of a bioanalytical method)
- Angela Kohls (2005, EMAU Greifswald, Phytochemical characterisation of Ganoderma pfeifferi)
Pharmacists in training
- Annegret Pracht (WiSe 20/21, protease phosphatase inhibition of semisynthetic microcystins)
BSc students
- Elisa Liebhart (2017, EKU Tübingen, Quorum sensing inhibitors from actinomycetes)
- Esraa Khourshid (2016, EKU Tübingen, Isolation and characterization of cyanobacterial metabolites active against S. aureus)
- Christina Sarantaki (2014, EKU Tübingen, Chemical screening of actinomycetes)
- Susann Krüger (2011, Cyano Biotech GmbH and HS Lausitz, Fermentation monitoring and control)
PostDocs / Senior Scientists
- Paul Barac (2018-2020, Isolation and characterization of cyanobacterial strains and their metabolites)
Visiting students / scientists
- Muaaz Al-Ajlani (2019-2021, visiting scholar, Natural product chemistry and bioactivity)
- Chaimaa Katif (2019, visiting PhD student from the University of Marrakech in Morocco, Isolation and characterization of antibacterial metabolites from actinomycetes)
- Adel Elmekes (2018, visiting PhD student from the University of Marrakech in Morocco, Isolation and characterization of antibacterial metabolites from actinomycetes)
- Helene Robertsen (2016, visiting PhD student from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Denmark, Characterization of antibiotics from actinomycetes)
- Uchechukwu Nwodo (2016, visiting professor from the University of Fort Hare, South Africa, Chemical characterization of actinomycete strains)
- Ahmed Nafis (2015, visiting PhD student from the University of Marrakech in Morocco, Isolation and characterization of antifungal metabolites from actinomycetes)
... and the "old" group pictures can be found here.