Current members
| Seraina Bracamonte | PhD student |
| Elisabeth Funke | Technical Assistant |
| Marie Hoffmann | PhD student |
| Paul R. Johnston | Postdoc |
| Samah Makawi | PhD student |
| Michael T. Monaghan | Group leader |
| Paul Schmidt Yáñez | PhD student |
| Erik Rohe | MSc student / HiWi |
Former Post-docs and their current position
| Maria Alp | Postdoc (IGB Fellow) 2012-13; now Ingénieur de recherche, IRSTEA (FR) |
| Elizabeth Bourne | Postdoc 2014-17; now employed in industry (DE) |
| Maribet Gamboa | Postdoc 2009-11; now Postdoc, Ehime University (JP) |
| Ignacio Lucas-Lledo | Post-doc (IGB Fellow) 2013-14, Visiting Scientist 2014-2015; now Ramón y Cahal Fellow, Universitat de València (ES) |
| Tatiana Semenova | Postdoc (IGB Fellow); now Postdoc, University of Kansas (US) |
| Jasmine Smith | Postdoc 2014; scientific writer (DE) |
| Norman Warthmann | Postdoc (IGB Fellow) 2010-11; now FAO/IAEA, Vienna (AT) |
| Kozo Watanabe | Postdoc (Marie-Curie IIF) 2009-12; now Full Professor, Ehime University (JP) |
| Christian Wurzbacher | Postdoc 2012-15; now Group Leader (Microbial systems), TU München (DE) |
| Sakiko Yaegashi | Postdoc 2013-15; now Assistant Professor, Yamanashi University |
Former students and their current position
| Maja Grubisic | PhD student 2013-17; now Postdoc, Freie Universität Berlin & IGB (DE) |
| Felix Heeger | PhD Student 2014-18; now Postdoc, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)(DE) |
| Ann-Christin Honnen | PhD Student 2011-15; Postdoc 2016; now Postdoc, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)(CH) |
| Nina Broszio | BSc student Biology (HiWi); now at FU Berlin (DE) |
| Max Driller | MSc Bioinformatics (HiWi); now PhD student at Leibniz-IZW |
| Anna Hjalmarsson | MSc Student 2012; now PhD student, Goethe University, Frankfurt (DE) |
| Marie Jeschek | MSc student / Bioinformatician; now employed in industry |
| Bram Koese | MSc-Doktoraal student 2008; now Researcher, Naturalis, Leiden (NL) |
| Janina Kypke | BSc student 2012-13; now PhD Student, Natural History Museum of Denmark (DK) |
| Alessandro Manfrin | PhD student 2013-17; now Postdoc Univ Trier and Univ Duisburg-Essen (DE) |
| Katrin Preuß | Technical Assistant 2011-15; now full-time TA, IGB Dept. 2 |
| Sereina Rutschmann | PhD student 2011-15; now Postdoc, Universität Potsdam (DE) |
| Paul Schmidt-Yáñez | BSc student 2009-12; now PhD student (see above) (DE) |
| Serina Trotzer | Technical support 2009-10; now MSc student, Univ. Potsdam |
| Laurent Vuataz | PhD student (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), University of Utah (DAAD-RISE program)(US) |
| Beáta Baranová | Visiting Scientist (2015), University of Presov (SK) |
| Joanna Chao | Student intern, UC Berkley/Humboldt University (US) |
| Maria Angenica Fulo Regilme | Visiting PhD Student (2019), Ehime University |
| Jana Kulichová | Visiting Professor (2018), Charles University (CZ) |
| Jessica J Lee | Guest Scientist / Writer in Residence |
| Kei Nukazawa | Visiting PhD student, Tohoku University (now Assistant Professor Miyazaki University) |
| Snaebjörn Pálsson | Visiting Professor (2014), University of Iceland (IS) |
| Paria Raoufi | Visiting PhD Student (2018), Gonbad Kavous University (IR) |
| Joeselle Serrana | Visiting PhD Student (2018), Ehime University (JP) |
| Rania Siam | Visiting Professor (2016), American University in Cairo (EG) |
| Lucas Sire | Visiting PhD Student (2018, 2019), Université de Tours (FR) |
| Masano Suiyoshi | Visiting PhD Student, Hokkaido University (JP) |
| Noriko Uchida | Visiting PhD Student, Tohoku University (JP) |
| Máté Vass | Visiting MSc Student, University of Pannonia (HU) |
| Kozo Watanabe | Visiting Professor (2017), Ehime University (JP) |
| Sakiko Yaegashi | Visiting PhD student, Tohoku University (JP) |
