Simone Rencken

Graduate student in the Laurent Department Studying neural circuits in cephalopods

Master thesis with Detlev Arendt and Oliver Stegle: Single-cell RNA sequencing, photoreceptor evolution

Research intern in the group of Detlev Arendt: Evolution of the nervous system in bilateria / single-cell transcriptomics

Research intern in the groups of Florian Engert and Jeff Lichtman at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology: Behavioral/systems neuroscience and connectomics in larval zebrafish

Research intern in the group of Ulrike Müller at the Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology: Functional genomics and molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission disorders and neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer's disease)

Assistant role in administration and organization of EIT Health Ideation Workshop

B.Sc. thesis at DKFZ Junior Group Brain Cancer Metabolism head: Dr. Christiane Opitz

department: Kit Development tasks: sample preparation for NMR spectroscopy, production of solutions for analysis, equipment monitoring

Major: Bioinformatics Research Areas: Behavioral/systems Neuroscience, Evolution of neurons

Major: drug discovery B.Sc. thesis: brain cancer metabolism