PhD Projects Faber Group

Manuela Fuchs:
Global discovery of Hfq associated RNAs in the enteric pathogen Clostridioides difficile

Supervisor:
Dr. Franziska Faber (Würzburg)
Promotion Committee:
Dr. Franziska Faber (Würzburg)
Jun. Prof. Dr. Alexander J. Westermann (Würzburg)
Dr. Meina Neumann-Schaal (Braunschweig)

Manuela Fuchs obtained her MSc in molecular and cellular Biology at the Philipps-University Marburg (Germany) in 2018. Following her thesis at the unit for nosocomial pathogens and antibiotic resistances of the Robert Koch Institute (Wernigerode, Germany), she joined the Faber Lab in 2018. Her PhD project aims at deciphering the RNA-based mechanisms of virulence regulation in the nosocomial pathogen C. difficile by globally identifying RNA-RNA interactions facilitated by the RNA binding protein Hfq.

Johannes Sulzer
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Supervisor:
Dr. Franziska Faber (Würzburg)
Promotion Committee:
Dr. Franziska Faber (Würzburg)
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Johannes Sulzer received his MSc in Biochemistry from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg in 2020. During his MSc, he established an infection model for the gut pathogen C. difficile in Franziska Faber’s group. As part of his PhD, he continues this project and extends it by a commensal interactor. He also investigates the function of ncRNAs and their impact on the life cycle of this bacterium.