Thomas Lingg

from Würzburg, Germany
at present: PhD student in Akhtar lab

Address:
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
Stuebeweg 51
D-79108 Freiburg

Tel. +49 (0) 761 5108-695
Fax +49 (0) 761 5108-720
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Curriculum vitae
10/09-present IMPRS-MCB program
05/09 Diploma in Biomedical Chemistry from the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany

Research interests and goals
I am interested in any kind of natural science, and therefore decided to study the interdisciplinary subject of biomedical chemistry at the University of Mainz, in order to gain a very broad knowledge. However, towards the end of my studies, I got more and more interested in the things happening on a molecular level in biological systems and especially in the techniques to study these processes. During my diploma thesis in the field of DNA repair, I realised the high impact of chromatin on cellular events. To work in this exciting area I applied to the MPI in the hope of studying in a lab specialised in Epigenetics or Chromatin Regulation, where they have access to the latest techniques. After doing rotations in three different labs, I joined the lab of Asifa Akhtar, to investigate the regulation of transcription in Drosophila dosage compensation.

Publications

Khobta, A., Lingg, T., Schulz, I., Warken, D., Kitsera, N., Epe, B. (2010). Mouse CSB protein is important for gene expression in the presence of a single-strand break in the non-transcribed DNA strand. DNA Repair, 9: 985-993.