Institute for Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics (IMGAG)
AG: Genetic Variants of Proximal Signaling
Arbeitsgruppenleiter (AG)
Pr (France) Dr. rer. nat. Vijay K. ULAGANATHAN
Research Working Group Leader, IMGAG Universitätsklinikum Tübingen
2021-2022 Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Universite de Lorriane, France
2020-2021 Research Working Group Leader, Hautklinik, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Germany
2018-2020 Research Working Group Leader, Neuroimmunologie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Germany
2012-2019 Project Leader, Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
2010-2012 Postdoc, Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany (Mentor: Prof. Axel Ullrich)
2005-2010 Ph.D (Dr. rer. nat) in Autoimmunity (Neuroimmunology)
International Max Planck Research School for Life Sciences
(Mentor: Prof. Hartmut Wekerle & PI: Prof. Alexander Fluegel)
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology & Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany
Doctoral Students
Xinting Wang
Xinting received her Masters Degree in Internal Medicine at the Fujian Medical University China. Her current research focuses on molecular and functional characterization of germline single nucleotide variants (SeSNVs) altering signalig by STAT family of proteins.
Sinan Erdan
Sinan studies medicine at the UKT. His doctoral research focuses on exploring the pharmacological impact of STAT3-enhancing germline single nucleotide variants (SeSNVs).
Marie Beil
Marie studies medicine at the UKT. Her doctoral research focuses on contributing to the molecular and biochemical characterization of a rare SeSNVs in PD-L1.
Yasmin Jrade
Yasmin, a medical student at the UKT, is conducting doctoral research on the roles of CD24 and anastasis in melanoma.
Pauline Vogel
Pauline is enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program at the UKT and is pursuing an ambitious project for her bachelor's thesis. In this project, she is developing a model system to monitor the crosstalk between proteotoxicity and oncogenic transformation.
Internship Students
Ash Ediga
Ash is currently a final year undergraduate student in the Biomolecular Engineering Department at UCSC, USA. She is learning a computational approach to generate a compendium of therapeutically relevant germline variants
Padmapriya Ravichandran
Padmapriya is currently a second-year postgraduate student enrolled in the Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology at the University of Tübingen. She is investigating the validation of the MANE-Select transcript isoform of a receptor that is anticipated to play a role in cancer and neurodegeneration.
Riddhi Nirantare
Riddhi is currently a second-year postgraduate student enrolled in Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Lübeck. She will contribute to developing a method for generating a hematopoietic stem cell line to facilitate validation of therapy relevant pTyr-SNVs.
Opportunities for Students
We are always looking for enthusiastic students enrolled at the University of Tübingen, to teach them our research methods and support them with/for their Internship (Praktikum), Bachelor's, or Master's research projects. We may also consider helping exceptional international students seeking support for their Masters or PhD scholarship applications. If you interested, feel free to contact me.
Former Students
Mr. Halifax-buckman Arthur (Population Medicine, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen) Mr. Kenyatta Doumanas Benitez (Nanoscience, Universität Tübingen) Ms. Emma Fogel (Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, Universität Tübingen) Mr. Thomas Viguier (Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universite de Lorraine) Ms. Martina Vasileva (Molecular Medicine, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen) Mr. Linus Remling (Molecular Medicine, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen) Ms. Sara Bilekova (Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München) Mr. Daniel Kogan (Mathematics, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)