Team Members

Dr. Kenneth Pfarr

Group Leader

Phone:  +49-228-287-11207

Fax.:  +49-228-287-11167

Email:  pfarr @ microbiology - bonn.de

Dr. Andrea Schiefer

Post-Doc

Phone:  +49-228-287-11476

Fax: +49-228-287-11167

Email:  andrea.schiefer @ uni-bonn.de

Project:  Characterization of cell wall biosynthesis in Wolbachia, endosymbionts of filarial nematodes

Dr. Anna Albers

Post-Doc

Phone: +49-228-287-11059

Project: Development of qPCR assays to detect low numbers of Wolbachia in patients infected with Brugia malayi, Wuchereria bancrofti and Onchocerca volvulus, and genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms in Ghanaian patients with lymphatic filariasis.

Technicians

Katharin Gorski-Rzpenski

Helene Neufeld 

Students

Valerie Biewener

Ph.D. candidate

Project: Wolbachia cell wall biosynthesis, function of penicillin binding proteins in the absence of peptidoglycan

Christian Lentz

Ph.D. candidate

Project:  Novel anti-wolbachial drug discovery using RNA aptamers and small molecule library screening. 

Jennifer Vollmer