Natascha Turetzek
Research Associate (Akademischer Rat) in the Department of Evolutionary Ecology. We are interested in the Development and Evolution (EVO-DEVO) of Arthropod sense organs.
Foto: Carolin Bleese
Duğçar Ebrar Erdoğan (PhD student co-supervision with Nico Posnien, Göttingen)
Gene and genome duplication and phenotypic novelties – Insights from spiders and insects
Joint project with Niko Prpic-Schäper (Gießen), Matthias Pechmann (Cologne) and Mathilde Cordellier of the DFG Priority Program Gevol
https://www.g-evol.com
André Amaral (PhD student co-supervision with Joachim Haug and Viktor Baranov)
Evolution of mandibles in Chironomidae
Dorothea Grillmayer (Master thesis)
The role of dpp and wg in Drosophila ovipositor diversification
Marie Pfefferer (Bachelor Thesis)
Heatwave effects on spider embryonic development
Jonas Roth (Bachelor Thesis)
Evolution of Pax gene function
Lab Alumni
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)