Katharina Brandt
Doctoral student
Contact
Tel: +49 511 532 -2757 (office),
Fax: +49 511 532-161215
address: 30625 Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str.1
office: building J03, floor 03, room 1310
Career Summary
- since 05/2025 doctoral student in the research group of PD Dr. Nayak, Institute of Molecular and Cell Physiology, Hannover
- 2022-2024 M.Sc „Animal Biology and Biomedical Sciences”, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover
- 2019-2022 B.Sc “Forensic Sciences”, University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein Sieg
- 2017-2019 Training to become a dental assistant
- 2017 Abitur at the Gesamtschule Hüllhorst
Main Research Focus
- Role of menin in muscle cells physiology
Expertise
- Real time qPCR, NGS, bioinformatics (especially Co-Expression analysis, Louvain Community Detection, GSEA)
Publication
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TAK-981-mediated inhibition of global SUMOylation spares skeletal muscle function, Mugeng Li, Katharina Brandt, Amel Nassar-Grioua, Luis Vincens Gand, Maja Milanovic, Ulrich Keller,Theresia Kraft, Mamta Amrute-Nayak, Arnab Nayak, ScienceDirect, Available online 17 September 2026, 102468, doi.org/10.1016/j.gendis.2026.102468
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Reorientation of the SUMOylation landscape and altered L3mbtl2-mediated transcriptional activity in cancer-associated muscle contractile dysfunction, Luis Vincens Gand, Mugeng Li, Katharina Brandt, Baoyu Zhou, Amel Nassar-Grioua, Julien Gondin, Edgar Becker, Andreas Pich, Theresia Kraft, Mamta Amrute-Nayak & Arnab Nayak, Cell Death Discovery, Cell Death Discov, 2026 Sep 9;12(1):360.doi: 10.1038/s41420-026-03337-y, PubMed
- Comparative meta-analysis of transcriptomic studies in spinal muscular atrophy: comparison between tissues and mouse models, Shamini Hemandhar Kumar, Katharina Brandt, Peter Claus, Klaus Jung, 2024 November 12 doi: 10.1186/s12920-024-02040-0, PMCID: PMC11555813
Award
- jGBM Preis Hannover 2024