Tatyana Lebedeva is a postdoc working on the mesoderm development in ctenophores. @KovacikPetra

Dr. Nadia is working on gutless worms of all kind. @rimskaya

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hejnol is interested in marine invertebrate development and evolution. He is the director of the Institute for Zoology and Evolutionary research and the Phyletic Museum Jena.

Katja Felbel is Technician in the Jena Team and does histology, electron microscopy and soon confocal microscopy.

Ingrid Weiß is the expert in histology and finding eggs even when its not easter.

Elli Grimmer is technical support in the team in Jena and is managing the laboratory in the area of molecular biology.

Lisa-Marie Barf is a PhD student in bioinformatics. She is analyzing genomes of our animals andcontributes to the developmental studies as well as to the Museum Exhibitions. @lisa_barf

Anika Wohlleben is postdoc in the team and is studying the parasitism of nematomorphs. Just recently she secured er own Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdotoral Fellowship. @AnikaWohlleben

Stanislav is postdoc and he is studying the embryology of ctenophores and cnidarians.

Francesca Pinton is PhD student and is studying the symbiosis and the immune system of acoelomorphs.

Shumpei is postdoc and is studying the evolution of ecdysis in the Ecdysozoa. @ShumpeiYamakawa

After a short time as technician in the lab, Nina Levin enrolled as PhD student in the MSC Network ZooCELL. She will work on the evolution of gravitational sense organs in animals.

Katharina Stracke is postdoc of the Team Bergen and is working on brain evolution in animals.

Aina is department engineer of the team Bergen. She is managing the laboratory and performs a lot of experiments and bioinformatic analyses.