Research Team
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Prof. Dr. med. Kai. M. Schmidt-Ott, Principle Investigator, Emmy Noether Fellow Kai Schmidt-Ott established his research group "Developmental Biology and Pathophysiology of the Kidney" in June 2007. The group is funded within the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Kai Schmidt-Ott analyzed molecular mechanisms of kidney development and kidney disease during his postdoctoral work in Prof. Jonathan Barasch's laboratory at Columbia University, New York. He studied medicine at the Free University of Berlin and performed his thesis work in the laboratory of Prof. Martin Paul at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. As a clinician he treats patients within Prof. Friedrich Luft's Department of Nephrology and Hypertensiology at the Helios Clinics Berlin-Buch. |
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Dr. rer. nat. Max Werth, Postdoctoral Research Scientist Max Werth studied Biochemistry at the Moscow State University. After his graduation in 2000 he became a research associate at the Laboratory of Peptide Chemistry in the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in Moscow. His PhD thesis (2003-2007) was focused on transcription factors interacting with the glutamine synthetase enhancer and was performed at the laboratory of Prof. Rolf Gebhardt (Leipzig University, Germany). He joined the group in June 2007 to pursue the transcriptional control of kidney epithelial differentiation. |
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Anne Katharina Wübken, PhD student Anne Katharina Wübken studied Molecular Biotechnlogy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn and graduated as „Master of Science in Molecular Biotechnology (MSc)” in November 2007. She joined the group in early 2008 as a PhD student within the "Helmholtz Graduate School Molecular Cell Biology". She investigates WNT signal transduction in mouse models of acute and chronic renal failure. |
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Katharina Walentin, PhD student Katharina Walentin studied Medical Biotechnology at the Technical University of Berlin and performed her diploma thesis on “In vitro adhesion and integration studies of a cell-based therapy for the regeneration of intervertebral discs” at the co.don AG in Teltow, Germany. She joined our group in July 2007. In 2009, she became a member of the TransCard Graduate School PhD program to study the molecular mechanisms of terminal epithelial differentiation in the developing kidney. |
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Annekatrin Aue, PhD student Annekatrin Aue studied biochemistry at the University of Potsdam. After finishing her diploma, she joined our group in May 2009. She became a member of the TransCard Graduate School PhD program to study transcription factors and their target gene programs in the kidney.
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Eugenia Singer, Medical Resident, MD thesis candidate
Eugenia Singer is a physician and resident in internal medicine. As part of her MD thesis project, she conducts clinical studies to investigate biomarkers of acute kidney injury. |
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Antje Elger, medical student, MD thesis candidate
Antje Elger is a medical student at Charité Berlin. As part of her MD thesis project, she conducts clinical studies to investigate biomarkers of acute kidney injury. |
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Antje Sommer, Medical and Technical Laboratory Assistant (MTLA)
Antje Sommer finished her training as a Medical and Technical Laboratory Assistant in June 2008 at the Medical Technical School of the University Clinics of Leipzig. She began her work in our group in August 2008 and is responisble for the management of genetically modified mouse strains and utilizes histological and molecular biology techniques. In June 2009, she qualified as a "Specialist for Molecular Biology". |
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Tatjana Luganskaja, Medical and Technical Laboratory Assistant (MTLA)
Tatjana Luganskaja holds a diploma in biology and is a technical assistant at the MDC since June 1, 2002. In 2001 she completed an academic professional training to become assistant for bioinformatics. Her work at the MDC focused on statistics and data management in genetics/epidemiology. In October 2009 she joined our group and started to shift her focus towards experimental and bioinformatic approaches to characterize protein-DNA interaction on a genome-wide scale. |
