Current Lab Members
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Dirk holds a Diploma degree in Molecular Medicine from FAU Erlangen. He performed his Ph.D. work with Federica Sallusto at the IRB in Bellinzona, Switzerland. Dirk then joined Mark Ansel’s lab at UCSF for his postdoc. Before being appointed W2 Professor for Autoimmunity at the Medical Clinic III of the UKB and the University of Bonn Cluster of Excellence ImmunoSensation in 2020, he was a DFG-funded Emmy Noether Research Group Leader at LMU Munich.
Yinshui Chang
Ph.D. Student
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Yinshui received his Master’s degree in Biochemisty from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He started his Ph.D. studies in the Baumjohann Lab at LMU Munich and moved to Bonn in 2020, continuing his work on determining the early factors that drive T follicular helper cell differentiation.
Luisa Bach
Ph.D. Student
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After Luisa completed her Master’s degree in Biomedicine at Hannover Medical School, she started her Ph.D. in the Baumjohann Lab in 2021. As part of the Bonn International Graduate School (BIGS) Immunosciences and Infection she dissects the contribution of DC-derived factors to early Tfh cell differentiation in vivo as well as factors that contribute to the maintenance of established Tfh cells.
Nicolás Gutiérrez-Melo
Ph.D. Student
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Originally from Colombia, Nicolás holds a Master’s degree in Vaccinology from the Erasmus Mundus LIVE program. He joined the Baumjohann lab in 2021 to pursue his Ph.D. by studying the differentiation and function of Tfh and Tfh-like cells in cancer and cancer-immunotherapy. He is also a member of the Bonn International Graduate School (BIGS) Immunosciences and Infection.
Jennifer-Christin Becker
Lab Technician
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After successfully completing her training as a biology laboratory technician at the UKB, Jenny started her job as lab technician in the Baumjohann Lab in summer 2020. She initially helped setting up the new lab and now takes over the daily routine lab work as well as large parts of the lab management.