Tomasz Bobrzynski

Master Student (Sokrates Fellow; 2000)
Visualise neural connections in WGA-HA transgenic flies.

  • University of Bern, Switzerland (2002-5)
  • postdoc @ Medical University of Vienna, Austria (2006-present)

Barbara Kueppers-Munther

Undergraduate / Graduate Student (1999-2004)
Exploring and optimising primary Drosophila cell cultures for investigations of mechanism underlying synapse formation.

  • Cellartis AB, Goeteborg, Sweden (2005-present)

Johannes Letzkus

Undergraduate Student & research (2001-3)
Determining the level of differentiation of neurons in primary Drosophila cell culture through electrophysiological investigation of spontaneous and synaptic activity.

  • research @ University of Freiburg, Germany (2003-4)
  • PhD @ John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra, Australia (2004-7)
  • Postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow @ Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland (2007-present)

Robert Loehr

Graduate Student (1999-2002)
Establishment of strategies for the visualisation of synapses of identified neurons in the Drosophila CNS.

Alex Mauss

Undergraduate Student (2003-4)
Analyses of potential mechanism involved in the formation of synaptic compartments in the Drosophila CNS.

  • research assistant @ Department of Genetics, Cambridge, UK (2004-5)
  • PhD then postdoc @ Department of Zoology, Cambridge, UK (2005-10)
  • Grass fellowship @ MBL, Woods Hole (2010)
  • postdoc @ MPI for Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany (2010-present)

Ulrike Mettler

Undergraduate Student (2002-3)
Investigation of the potential role of Rho-like GTPases during synapse formation in Drosophila embryos.

  • PhD @ Institute of Genetics, Mainz University, Germany (2003-6)
  • postdoc @ Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany

Michael Mende

Graduate Student (2000-4)
Investigation of the function of Short stop and its interaction partners in the context of synaptic compartement formation in Drosophila.

  • postdoc @ Kings College, London, UK (2004-8)
  • research fellow @ Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York (2009-present)
Ulrike Haessler

Graduate Student & Marie Curie Fellow (2000-5)
The development of dendrites and axons in primary Drosophila neurons

  • PhD @ École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (2006-10)
Michael Avermann

Graduate Student (2004-5)
The role of Fasciclin2 during pioneer neuronal guidance.

  • PhD @ École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (2006-present)

Lisa Ofner

Graduate Student (Marie Curie Fellow; 2005-6)
Calcium regulation in the context of neuronal development and degeneration in Drosophila.

  • postdoc & University Assistant @ Medizinische Universität Graz, Austria (2007-present)
Ines Hahn

Undergraduate Student (Erasmus Fellow; 2005-6)
Analysis of short stop in the context of tendon cell integrity in Drosophila melanogaster.

  • PhD @ LIMES Institute, University of Bonn, Germany (2007-present)
Wolfgang Bottenberg

Undergraduate & Graduate Student (2001-6)
Generation of transgenic fly strains carrying tagged version of transmitter receptors; detailed genetic and molecular analyses of Short stop function in the context of synapse formation.

  • postdoc @ International Centre for Neuroscience, University of Heidelberg (2006-7)
  • R-Biopharm AG, Darmstadt, Germany (2007-present)
Ghulam Mohiddin Lone

Graduate student & Postdoctoral fellow (2002-2006)
Detailed analyses of mutations affecting structural formation of neuromuscular synapses.

  • postdoc @ David Geffen School of Medicine, University of Los Angeles, CA (2007-present)
Abdul Al Khateeb

Master Student (2006)
Mechanisms underlying the formation of synaptic compartments in Drosophila.

Mark Travis

Postdoctoral Royal Commission fellow (2006-7)
The role of Spectraplakins in neuronal growth cones.

  • Independent RCUK fellow @ Faculty of Life Sciences, Manchester, UK (2007-present)
Koyuki Kondo

Undergraduate exchange student
Investigations of interactions of Drosophila Shot
Juliana Alves-Silva

Postdoctoral fellow (2005-9)
The molecular context of short stop during synaptic compartment formation in Drosophila.

  • postdoc @ Faculty of Life Sciences, Manchester, UK (2009-present)

Catarina Pimentel

Graduate student (Portuguese Foundation for Science & Technology Scholar; 2007-09)
Investigations of mechanisms underlying growth cone advance and guidance in Drosophila
Andre Koper

Postdoctoral fellow
Mechanisms of adhesion at the Drosophila NMJ.

Melanie Klein

Technical assistant