Dr. Oliver Rocks
Education & Professional experience
2021 – Group Leader | Charité University Medicine, Berlin
2011 – 2020 Group Leader | Max Delbrück Center, Berlin
2007 – 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow | Tony Pawson Lab, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
2005 – 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow | Philippe Bastiaens Lab, EMBL, Heidelberg
2001 – 2005 PhD Student | Fred Wittinghofer Lab, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund
1994 – 2000 Studies in Biochemistry, University of Bielefeld
Honours and Awards
2011 Helmholtz Young Investigator
2007 Human Frontiers in Science Program Long Term Fellowship
2005 Otto-Hahn Medal by the Max-Planck Society
2005 Best Thesis Award, Faculty of Biology, University of Bochum
Current Lab Members
PhD
Mariam Chupanova
Finn Hartstein
Master
Axel Herzberg
Milad Sahlolbay
Students
Mariam Jaafar
Nina Taudien
Lillith Horstkorte
Alumni
PhD
Dr. Rebecca Eccles (Editor at Molecular Cell)
Dr. Matti Baumann (Executive Assistant to the Scientific Directorate of the MDC)
Dr. Juliane Brümmer (Business Consultant at d-fine)
Dr. Markus Müller (Post-Doc Helge Ewers Lab, FU Berlin)
Dr. Carolin Barth (Data and Strategy Analyst at HotSpot Therapeutics)
Keziban Merve Alp (now Mertens Lab, MDC Berlin)
PostDoc
Dr. Maciej Czajkowski (Myelo Therapeutics GmbH)
Master
Sebastian Reusch (Reber Lab, IRI Berlin)
Laura van Berg (née Reckzeh) (Joachim Herz Stiftung, Hamburg)
Moritz Sorg (Pinho Lab, Lisbon)
Bachelor
Jana Kollasser (Stradal Lab, HZI Braunschweig)
Philip Trnka (Niehrs Lab, IMB Mainz)
Carolin Rünger (Charité Berlin)
Kristin Frensemeier (Hoppe-Seyler Lab, DKFZ Heidelberg)
Saskia Loth (Potsdam University)
Simon Heller (FU Berlin)
Students
Linda Silina (Teulade-Fichau Lab, Curie Paris)
Efraim Culfa (Koç University Instanbul)
Dr. Victoria Casado Medrano (Children’s Hospital Philadelphia)
McKenzie Lee (MPI Göttingen)
Lennart Brandenburg (Heidelberg University)
Kiara Freitag (Heppner Lab, Charité)
Björn Perder (Cornell University)
David Pride (Pombo Lab, MDC Berlin)
Trendelina Rustemi (Selbach Lab, MDC Berlin)
Elmehdi Belbaraka (MDC Berlin)