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Lab members.

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Lauren Saunders (she/her)

Principal Investigator

Lauren Saunders is a Junior Professor at the Centre for Organismal Studies at Heidelberg University. Lauren received a B.A. in biology and Asian studies from St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She then studied vascular development in zebrafish as a technician in Victoria Bautch's lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lauren received her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular biology from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she worked in Dave Parichy's lab on the effects of thyroid hormone signaling on neural crest-derived pigment cell lineages in post-embryonic zebrafish. She conducted her postdoctoral work with Cole Trapnell in the Department of Genome Sciences, also at UW in Seattle, where she developed a workflow for high-resolution phenotyping of zebrafish mutants using single-cell RNA-sequencing. 

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Hobbies: ceramics, gardening, cooking and hiking

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Lin-sha Kochsiek

Research Technician

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Merve Çetiner

Research Technician

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Gesine Richter

Research Technician

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Dr. Arish Shah

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Dr. Antonia Hauth

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Dr. Sodai Lotharukpong

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Julian Rebentisch

Master's Thesis Student

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Dr. Yen-Hsi Beyer

Administrative Specialist

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Eila

Postdog

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Mirjam Layer

PhD Student

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Diego Andrade Brito

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Zixuan Huo

Lab Alumni.

Johanna Raab, BSc thesis

Rebecca Kern, MSc thesis​

Ian Schulze, BSc thesis

Centre for Organismal Studies
AG Saunders
Im Neuenheimer Feld 230

69120 Heidelberg, Germany

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