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PhD Student Representatives
Our team
🎓 Sofie Niggemeier and Kathryn Lambert-Slosarska are the MarMic student reps and are members of the MarMic Steering committee.
🌍 Yueqing (Ava) Wang is the external PhD rep, linking our institute to other MPIs via the PhDnet.
🍺 Nicole Von Possel, Luigi Gallucci, and Hailey-Hannah Cottet are the internal PhD reps.
🔗 For more information, here's the PhD net website https://www.phdnet.mpg.de/home
💌 If you have any questions, problems, or doubts during your PhD, please contact us at [Bitte aktivieren Sie Javascript]men.de. We're happy to help or point you in the right direction.
Social events
🔜 Upcoming event
🎃 Pumpkin carving
Let’s welcome the spooooky season with pumpkin carving on 23.10., Thursday, 17:00! We will provide the pumpkins and knives. Please sign up here if you want a pumpkin. If you don't want to carve, you can join us for drinks 🍺. We'll serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks for 1€ (0.50€ for students and HiWis). See you there! 👻
🔂 Recurring event
🍺 Thirsty Thursdays
This informal event is open to all students/admin/PIs/technicians. We serve cold alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks for 1€ each. Students (BS, MS), trainees, and HiWis get half price (0.5€). 👋
We’ll be hosting this event every month on (you've guessed it!) a Thursday, with specific dates announced by e-mail. It is usually at 17:00 onwards by the MPI pond (weather permitting) or the cafeteria downstairs.
See you at the next one! 😄
🔚 Previous events
🌈 CSD Bremen 2025
We organized to march as a group at the Christopher Street Day (CSD) celebration last 23.8.2025, Saturday. CSD is the German counterpart of Pride parades, the annual celebrations supporting LGBTQIA+ rights.
🍗 MPI BBQ + Bingo
After the MPI Day on 4.9.2025, we hosted a barbecue party and played a Bingo card game to get to know our colleagues better.
(➡️ Swipe right to see the flyers for previous events)
Academic related
👩🏻🎓 General Student Assembly
We organized a general student assembly prior to the MarMic retreat to ensure the retreat assembly keeps to times and runs smoothly.
📚 MPI Internal Scientific Courses
These internal courses are offered by scientists for fellow scientists, covering any topic from lab techniques and programming/bioinformatics to soft skills (e.g. grant proposal). If you are interested in offering a course, don't hesitate to send us a message at [Bitte aktivieren Sie Javascript]. We will help you arrange the practical details and the dissemination of the course.
Current Offer: From sequence to signal: the art of FISH probe design
👋 It MA(t)TER(s)
It MA(t)TER(s) is a student-led conference jointly organized by the PhD reps from MPI Marburg and Bremen. The next one will be at our institute in 05.2026. If you want to volunteer for the organization, let us know!
For more information about previous conferences, see the official website.
For more information about the previous It MA(t)TER(s) held at MPI Bremen, see this.
For new PhD students
🧭 PhD navigator
If you are a new PhD student, the PhD Navigator is an excellent source of information related to the academic journey.
🌍 International Office
For new international PhD students, feel free to reach out to Anita Tingberg of the International Office. She will help you will all the paperwork for your stay in Germany.
Mental Health Road Map
Volunteers for navigating the mental health system in German
If you are seeking mental healthcare for any reason and you need help making phone calls in German, these colleagues have volunteered to be translators. They are not qualified mental health professionals but they are willing to act as a neutral safe space to help with German translation and phone conversations.
Lauren Queiss (lqueiss@mpi-bremen.de)
Aman Akeerath Mundanatt (aakeerat@mpi-bremen.de)
Nicolas Schröder(nschroed@mpi-bremen.de)
If you also want to volunteer, let us know!
A list of english speaking psychotherapists in Bremen kindly provided by Giulia. This list was compiled by the pme familienservice that MPI employees can access free of charge.