Student researcher — Adlung Lab
University of Hamburg (UHH-UKE), Center for Internal Medicine
Advisor: Dr Lorenz Adlung. Research thesis on inference of metabolic properties and transcriptional programmes across altered adipocyte/immune cell ratios (GCB 2023 poster). Computational analysis of single-cell and single-nucleus adipocyte/macrophage data; ShinyR visualisation of clinical spreadsheets; co-founded Seq@Home. Co-authored an NPG publication. Linked to UKE medical studies and the Digital Health elective track.
systems immunology single-cell macrophages metabolism
Student research in the AdlungLab at UKE: single-cell and single-nucleus analysis of adipocyte–immune interactions, research thesis presented at GCB 2023, and co-authorship on the npj Systems Biology and Applications paper on longitudinal IBD modelling. Ongoing links include the Virtual Cell Challenge student research group in Hamburg.
// people
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Lorenz Adlung
former supervisor · Independent Junior Group Leader
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Christoph Kilian
Clinician scientist
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Virtual Cell Challenge 2026
Student research group building models for the Virtual Cell Challenge — designing virtual cells, backed by a Studentische Forschungsgruppen Grant from Exzellenzuniversität Hamburg.
2025
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Inference of metabolic properties and transcriptional programmes across altered adipocyte/immune cell ratios
Zouboulis V.A., Ullrich H., Kilian C., Homayon O., Adlung L.
German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB) 2023, Hamburg
snRNA-seq analysis of adipocyte–LAM interactions across obesity states; proposing the LAM/Adipo ratio as a biologically meaningful sample-alignment metric. Affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany. Research thesis in the Adlung lab — linked to medical studies at UKE and the Digital Health elective track.
2023
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Longitudinal single-cell data informs deterministic modelling of inflammatory bowel disease
Kilian C., Ulrich H., Zouboulis V.A., Sprezyna P., Schreiber J., Landsberger T., Büttner M., Biton M., Villablanca E.J., Huber S., Adlung L.
npj Systems Biology and Applications
2024 cited 6