Our team members introducing themselves

Head:

PD Dr. med. vet. Katja Steiger

  • Board-certified specialist for veterinary pathology (2005)
  • Main focus on comparative pathology of animal models in cancer research
  • Special expertise in the field of lab animal pathology

Prof. Dr. med. Carolin Mogler

  • Medical director of the CEP
  • Specialist for human pathology with main focus on gastrointestinal pathology (liver)
  • Long-term experience in comparative pathology, especially in murine pathology and lab animal pathology
  • Main focus on comparative pathology of gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases and neoplasia

Scientific staff:

Dr. med. vet. Simone Ballke

  • Veterinarian with long-term expertise in animal model research
  • Pathology of animal models with main focus on translational cancer research
  • Chemical-technical assistant
  • scientific coordination/accounting core facility

Dr. med. Marianne Reiser

  • Junior physician human pathology
  • Project processing translational Pathology for CRC 1335

Dr. med. vet. Tanja Groll

  • Veterinary pathologist in training
  • Postdoc
  • Special expertise in the field of animal models for gastrointestinal cancer
  • Project consulting and evaluation for CRC 1335 and CRC 1371

Johannes Wirth

  • Biochemist and bioinformatician
  • Postdoch
  • Expertise in the execution of spatial transcriptomics experiments as well as in the analysis of spatially-resolved transcriptomic datasets
  • Focus on investigating the intratumor heterogeneity in different types of cancer

Thomas Metzler

  • Veterinary doctoral student
  • Veterinary pathologist in training
  • Animal models of pancreatic cancer (CRC 1335)
  • “immune checkpoint receptors in canine neoplasia”

Leona Arps

  • Veterinary pathologist in training
  • Doctoral student
  • "Subtyping of murine pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (mPDAC)"

Senior and resident physicians with different entity-specific focuses.

Technical staff:

  • Olga Seelbach (Head of the laboratory)
  • Marion Mielke (Head of immunohistochemistry)
  • Ulrike Mühltaler (immunohistochemistry)
  • Irina Eskina
  • Aezlat Alkhamas (Spatial Omics – Xenium in situ, Codex)
  • Annett Hering (AG Mogler, CRC 1366) (immunohistochemistry)

Project management:

  • Dr. rer. nat. Karin von Schwarzenberg
  • Dr. rer. nat. Kerstin Rosenits

Administration:

  • Petra Hauke