Asmae Laouina successfully defended her PhD We warmly congratulate Asmae Laouina on the successful defense of her doctoral thesis at the end of July 2026. Under the supervision of Oliver Pabst (project B06), Asmae's dissertation, entitled “The Immune Topology of the Gut Barrier: A Focus [...]

Agnes Seeger successfully defended her PhD We are delighted to share that Agnes Seeger, a doctoral student in Angela Schippers’ lab at the Department of Paediatrics (project B02), successfully defended her PhD thesis in mucosal immunology in mid‑June 2026. In her work, Agnes explored how [...]

Johannes Schöneich successfully defended his PhD Johannes Schöneich has successfully completed his doctoral dissertation. Entitled 'A multi-omics analysis of the postnatal development of intestinal epithelial cells', his thesis provides valuable new insights into the complex molecular processes that shape the intestinal epithelium after birth. He [...]

Eva-Lena Stange successfully defended her PhD The success story of recent doctoral defenses continues: In April, Eva-Lena Stange has successfully defended her dissertation entitled "The Neonatal Liver as a Tolerogenic T Cell Hub: Mechanisms and Long-term Effects ”. Her studies could demonstrate that the neonatal [...]

Alina Viehof-Beckmann successfully defended her PhD Alina Viehof-Beckmann, a doctoral student at the Institute of Medical Microbiology, has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Influence of Intestinal Coriobacteriia on Host Metabolism". The examination took place in beginning of December 2025. Supervised by Thomas Clavel, Alina’s [...]

Mona Peltzer successfully defended her PhD The end of the year is heralded by the successful defence of Mona Peltzer's doctoral thesis. Mona was a PhD student in the Department of Internal Medicine III and in her thesis she investigated the role of pyroptosis and [...]

Giulia Bagarolo successfully defended her PhD Congratulations to Giulia Bagarolo, who successfully defended her thesis in October 2025! Giulia was a PhD student of project A04 at the Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research (IMCAR) and she identified novel peptidic mediators that are involved in gut-liver [...]

Anika Beckers successfully defended her PhD Anika Beckers, PhD student in the Department of Internal Medicine III (project B04, supervised by Marie Berres), successfully defended her thesis. Anika investigated the role of dendritic cells as cellular targets of gut-liver communication in chronic liver disease and [...]