Current members
| Kingsly Chuo Beng | Postdoc |
| Mary Ann Davenport | MSc Student |
| Dagmar Frisch | Postdoc |
| Elisabeth Funke | Technical Assistant |
| Marie Hoffmann | Doctoral student |
| Paul R. Johnston | Bioinformatician |
| Samah Makawi | Doctoral student |
| Michael T. Monaghan | Group leader |
| Paul Schmidt Yáñez | Doctoral student |
| Sarah Sparmann | Technical Assistant – Genomics |
| Jürgen F. H. Strassert | Postdoc |
Former Post-docs and their current position
| Maria Alp | IGB Fellow 2012-13; now Ingénieur de recherche, INRAE, Lyon (FR) |
| Elizabeth Bourne | 2014-17; now employed in industry (DE) |
| Maribet Gamboa | 2009-11; now Hiroshima University (JP) |
| Ignacio Lucas-Lledo | IGB Fellow 2013-14, Visiting Scientist 2014-2015; now Ramón y Cahal Fellow, Universitat de València (ES) |
| Tatiana Semenova | IGB Fellow; now Postdoc, Univ Kansas (US) |
| Jasmine Smith | 2014; Scientific Writer (DE) |
| Norman Warthmann | IGB Fellow 2010-11; now FAO/IAEA, Vienna (AT) |
| Kozo Watanabe | Marie-Curie IIF 2009-12; now Professor, Ehime University (JP) |
| Christian Wurzbacher | 2012-15; now Group Leader (Microbial Systems), TU München (DE) |
| Sakiko Yaegashi | 2013-15; now Assistant Professor, Yamanashi University |
Former students and their current position
| Seraina Bracamonte | PhD 2015-2020; now Juan de la Cierva Fellow, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid (ES) |
| Maja Grubisic | PhD 2013-17; now Postdoc, Freie Universität Berlin & IGB (DE) |
| Felix Heeger | PhD 2014-18; now Postdoc, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)(DE) |
| Ann-Christin Honnen | PhD 2011-15; Postdoc 2016; now Postdoc, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)(CH) |
| Nina Broszio | BSc Biology (HiWi); now at FU Berlin (DE) |
| Max Driller | MSc Bioinformatics (HiWi); now PhD student at Leibniz-IZW |
| Anna Hjalmarsson | MSc 2012; now PhD student, Goethe University, Frankfurt (DE) |
| Marie Jeschek | MSc / Bioinformatician; now employed in industry |
| Bram Koese | MSc (Doktoraal) 2008; now Researcher, Naturalis, Leiden (NL) |
| Janina Kypke | BSc 2012-13; now PhD Student, Natural History Museum of Denmark (DK) |
| Alessandro Manfrin | PhD 2013-17; now Postdoc Univ Koblenz-Landau (DE) |
| Katrin Preuß | Technical Assistant 2011-15; now full-time TA, IGB Dept. 2 |
| Erik Rohe | MSc Student 2020 |
| Sereina Rutschmann | PhD 2011-15; now Postdoc, Univ Potsdam (DE) |
| Paul Schmidt-Yáñez | BSc 2009-12; now PhD student (see above) (DE) |
| Serina Trotzer | Technical Assistant 2009-10 |
| Laurent Vuataz | PhD (Université de Lausanne); now Musée Cantonal de Zoologie, Lausanne (CH) |
| Lydia Wächter | Technical support 2012-2014 (Grant-funded) |
| Alice Zappe | Bioinformatics support 2013-2014 (Grant-funded) |
Former visitors and their home institution
| Bryce Alex | Visiting Student (2018), Univ Utah (DAAD-RISE program)(US) |
| Beáta Baranová | Visiting Scientist (2015), Univ Presov (SK) |
| Joanna Chao | Student intern, UC Berkley/Humboldt Univ (US) |
| Maria Angenica Fulo Regilme | Visiting PhD Student (2019), Ehime Univ |
| Jana Kulichová | Visiting Professor (2018), Charles Univ (CZ) |
| Arnelyn Larano | Visiting PhD Student (2020), Ehime Univ (JP) |
| Jessica J Lee | Guest Scientist / Writer in Residence |
| Cristina Miño | MSc Intern, Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Kei Nukazawa | Visiting PhD student, Tohoku Univ (JP) |
| Snaebjörn Pálsson | Visiting Professor (2014), Univ Iceland (IS) |
| Paria Raoufi | Visiting PhD Student (2018), Gonbad Kavous Univ (IR) |
| Joeselle Serrana | Visiting PhD Student (2018, 2020), Ehime Univ (JP) |
| Rania Siam | Visiting Professor (2016), American Univ Cairo (EG) |
| Lucas Sire | Visiting PhD Student (2018, 2019), Université de Tours (FR) |
| Masano Suiyoshi | Visiting PhD Student, Hokkaido Univ (JP) |
| Noriko Uchida | Visiting PhD Student (2017), Tohoku Univ (JP) |
| Máté Vass | Visiting MSc Student, Univ Pannonia (HU) |
| Kozo Watanabe | Visiting Professor (2017), Ehime Univ (JP) |
| Sakiko Yaegashi | Visiting PhD student, Tohoku Univ (JP) |
Molecular Ecology and Genomics Research Group 