CCGA – NGS sequencing facility

Please direct all general inqueries to: ccga@ikmb.uni-kiel.de

Sören Franzenburg

Who am I: Sören is the head of the IKMB NGS platform and responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the facility.
Areas of expertise: general questions, experimental design and all things "NGS".

Contact: s.franzenburg@ikmb.uni-kiel.de | +49 (0)431 - 500 15160

Janina Fuß

Who am I: Janina is a project manager for the CCGA, your main contact for project-related questions and planning.
Areas of expertise: long-read sequencing, RNA-seq and general questions about NGS.

Contact: j.fuss@ikmb.uni-kiel.de | +49 (0)431 - 500 15130

Britt Sabina Löscher

Who am I: Britt is overseeing large parts of the NGS diagnostics done at the CCGA and is the main contact for all HLA-related questions.
Areas of expertise: Exome sequencing and data analysis, HLA analysis

Contact: b.loescher@ikmb.uni-kiel.de | +49 (0)431 - 500 15255

Collaborating scientist and platforms

Corinna Bang

Who am I: Corinna is the head of the IKMB Microbiome platform and responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the facility.
Areas of expertise: all things around the microbiome, including nucleic acid extraction from biosamples.

Contact: c.bang@ikmb.uni-kiel.de | +49 (0)431 - 500 15157

Rebekka Kraemer

Who am I: Rebekka is the head of the IKMB biobank, extraction platform and responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the facility.
Areas of expertise: pre-analytic sample treatment including collection, storage and extraction.

Contact: r.kraemer@ikmb.uni-kiel.de | +49 (0)431 - 500 15164

Michael Wittig

Who am I: Michael is the head of the genotyping platform that also includes the proteomics analysis with Olink. He is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the facility.
Areas of expertise: Genotyping, Olink study design.

Contact: genotype_ta@ikmb.uni-kiel.de | +49 (0)431 - 500 15147

Olga Brovkina

Who am I: Olga is the Head of Data Science at the Medical Bioinformatics Platform (medBIP) and is responsible for coordinating data analysis activities within the platform.
Areas of expertise: data analysis, bioinformatics pipelines.

Contact: medbip@ikmb.uni-kiel.de | +49 (0)431 - 500 15282​​

Joana Pimenta Bernardes

Who am I: Joana is a postdoc in the field of precision medicine and is coordinating single cell and spatial transcriptomics projects for her own research and our collaborators.
Areas of expertise: bioinformatic analysis of large transcriptome datasets, integration of multi-omics data.

Contact: j.pimentabernardes@ikmb.uni-kiel.de | +49 (0)431 - 500 15143

Management board

Philip Rosenstiel

Andre Franke