Natascha Turetzek
Principal Investigator (PI)
We are interested in genetic and molecular mechanisms influencing phenotypic diversification and adaption in arhtopods (insects and spiders).
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André Amaral (PhD student co-supervision with Joachim Haug and Viktor Baranov)
Evolution of mandibles in Chironomidae
Dorothea Grillmayer (Phd student)
Molecular mechanisms and phenotypic consequences of paralog divergence in insects and chelicerates
Joint project in the DFG Priority Program Gevol
https://www.g-evol.com
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Isabela Tamaru Nakamura (Student assistant)
Studying gene duplication and their impact on spider development and evolution
Kaja Grote (Msc Thesis)
Paralog divergence in Arachnopulmonata
Yaren Keçimen (Msc Thesis)
Temperature Effects on Chironomus riparius Larvae Development and Resulting Fitness Effects
Bowen Zhang (Bsc Thesis)
Temperature Effects on Chironomus riparius Larvae Development and Resulting Fitness Effects
Xenja Steffen (Bsc Thesis)
TRGs in Parasteatoda
Marc Vogel (Bsc Thesis)
Heat-wave effects on spider mating, fitness and fecundity
Lab Alumni
2026
Ana Paula Viccon Arguelles (Master Thesis)
Sensory gene evolution across spiders
Duğçar Ebrar Erdoğan (PhD)
Gene and genome duplication and phenotypic novelties – Insights from spiders and insects.
Joint project in DFG Priority Program Gevol https://www.g-evol.com
2025
Burak Bürgeç (Master Thesis)
Evolutionary and Functional Analyses of Pax and Orphan Genes in Spider Eye and Sense OrganDevelopment
Isabela Tamaru Nakamura (Bachelor Thesis)
TRGs in Parasteatoda
Isabella Schindelhauer (Master Thesis)
Comparative analysis of sense organ development in female Drosophila genitalia
2024
Dorothea Grillmayer (Master Thesis)
The role of dpp and wg in Drosophila ovipositor diversification
Jonas Roth (Bachelor Thesis)
Evolution of Pax gene function
Marie Pfefferer (Bachelor Thesis)
Heatwave effects on spider embryonic development
2023
Venkata Sai Poojitha Koka (Master Thesis & Student Assistant)
Spider sense organ development & Heat wave effects on arthropods (in collaboration with Cristina Tuni (Turin))
Kaja Grote (Bachelor Thesis)
Life cycle of Chironomous riparius
Hao "Steve" Yang Lay (Bachelor Thesis)
Comparative analysis of sense organ development in female Drosophila genitalia
Chun Yin "Jerry" Leung (Master Thesis)
Generating transgenic tools to study female Drosophila genital sensilla
Ingrid Papst (Bachelor Thesis) Sense organ development on the female Drosophila Ovipositor
Pallavi Sekhar (Master Thesis) Candidate gene expression profiling for female Drosophila genital sensilla
2022
Pinaki Chakraborty (Master Thesis) Functional analysis for candidate genes involved in female genitalia sensilla development
Atharv Arora (Master Thesis) Generating transgenic tools to study female Drosophila genital sensilla
Sebastian Kreßmann (Bachelor Thesis)
Arian Seyed Sadri (Master Thesis)Sense organ diversification in arthropods: The role of prepatterning
Poojitha Sai Koka Ventaka (Reserach Course) Genetic basis of sense organ precursor formation in the common house spider P. tepidariorum
Sabeel un Naeem (Research course) Fate map of female Drosophila genital sensilla
2021
Magdalena Ines Schacht (Guest PhD)
Bharadwaj Marella (Master Thesis)Transcriptomic profiling of external genital sensilla during larval and pupal development in different Drosophila species.
Apostolos Angelakakis (Bachelor student & Research assistant shared with Cristina Tuni) Studies the mating behaviour in the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum
Lina Suprata Scholz (Bachelor student) Screening transgenic tools to study female Drosophila genital sensilla
Alexander Nikola (Bachelor student) Functional studies of proneural genes in the common house spider P. tepidariorum
Dina Iusupova (Individual Research training)
Vishnu Vellore (Research course)
Alina Schreiner (Research assistant)
2020
Fabian Platten (Research course)
Sakshi Singh (Research assistant)
Matthias Janeschik (Research Project)
2019
Ruixun Wang (Master)“Evolution and Development of Arthropod Sense Organ Systems”
Natalia Reshetnikova (Research course)
Alexander Günther Nikola (Research course)