born 08.08.1962
		Diplom (Microbiology), University Greifswald, 1987
		Dr. rer. nat. (Microbiology), University Greifswald, 1989
		Postdoc (Microbiology), Universities of Hamburg, Greifswald and Osnabrück 1989-1993
		Postdoc (Microbiology), University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 1993-1996
		Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology of the Philipps-University Marburg (Laboratory for Microbial Ecology) and at the Department of Biochemistry of the MPI Marburg 1996-2002
		Habilitation (Microbiology and Molecular Biology), 1998
		Professor for Functional Genomics, University Greifswald, since 2002

Structure of the Functional Genomics Group

Director: Prof. Dr. Uwe Völker

Secretary: Nicholas Ehlers

Staff Scientists: Dr. Elke Hammer, Dr. Georg Homuth, Dr. Frank Schmidt, Dr. Leif Steil

PostDocs/ Project Manager/ Scientists:: Dr. Sabine Ameling, Dipl.-Ing. Lars Brinkmann, Dr. Marc Burian, Dr. Maren Depke, Vishnu M. Dhople PhD, Dr. Florian Ernst, Dr. Manuela Gesell Salazar, Dr. Petra Hildebrandt, Dr. Nico Jehmlich, Dr. Ulrike Mäder

PhD-students: Ravi Kumar Chilukoti, Stefan Muschter, Priyanka Nannapaneni, Krishnatej Nishtala, Henrike Pförtner, Rasmita Samal, Praveen Kumar Sappa, Marc Schaffer, Kristin Surmann, Claudia Schurmann, Alexander Teumer

Technical assistants: Jette Anklam, Katrin Darm, Sophie Eisenlöffel, Ulrike Lissner, Katrin Schoknecht, Jana Priebe, Anja Wiechert