Anette Abraham

• technician
• chimpanzee, gorilla and macague genotyping projects

Mimi Arandjelovic

• post doc
• molecular censusing of wild great apes

Graham L Banes

• guest scientist
• molecular and ecological studies of wild Bornean orang-utans

Yi-Chiao Chan

• graduate student, DAAD Fellow
• gibbon population histories

Tillmann Fünfstück

• PhD student
• genetic population structure of chimpanzees and gorillas

Jörg Hans

• PhD student
• MHC variation and individual fitness in mountain gorillas

Kevin Langergraber

• research scientist
• genetic and behavioral analysis of wild chimpanzees

Carolyn Rowney

• lab assistant
• genetic analysis of wild chimpanzees

Veronika Städele

• PhD student
• genetic population structure of the hamadryas baboons at Filoha, Ethiopia

Linda Vigilant

• Principal Investigator
• supervision and development of all lab projects

Richard Bergl

• Cross River Gorilla population and habitat viability analysis
  
• current position: Curator of Conservation and Research. North Carolina Zoological Park

Jyotsna Bhagavatula

• post-doc
• Genetic analysis of macaques

Brenda Bradley

• Ph.D. 2003, Post-doc 2003-2004
• Molecular Ecology of Wild Gorillas
• current position: Assistant professor, Yale University

Nadin Eckhardt

• Diplom (M.Sc) 2004
• Microsatellite genotyping of mountain gorillas (Karisoke Research Center)
• currently field assistant with the Taï Chimpanzee project

Linn Fenna Groeneveld

• Postdoc 2010-2012
• PRDM9 variation in chimpanzees and bonobos
• current affiliation: University of Goettingen

Katerina Guschanski

• Ph.D. 2008
• population genetics of Bwindi mountain gorillas
• current position: Post-doctoral fellow, University of Lausanne

Tara Harris

• Humboldt Fellowship Post-doc 2006-2008
• male resource defense in primates
• current position: Conservation Biologist, Minnesota Zoo

Franziska Kanter-Hermsdorf

• Diplom (M.Sc) 2006
• nuclear sequence variation in chimpanzees

Claudia Lang

• student
• parentage in Karisoke mountain gorillas

Dieter Lukas

• Ph.D. 2008
• comparative study of genetic variation in relation tp social structures of animals
• current position: Post-doctoral fellow, University of Cambridge

Laura Muniz

• Ph.D. 2008
• genetic analyses of wild groups of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus)
  
• current position: Post-doctoral fellow, research group on primate kin selection

Anthony Mutebi Nsubuga

• Ph.D. 2005
• Genetic Analysis of the Social Structure in Wild Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
• current position: Post-doctoral fellow, Conservation and Research for Endangered Species (CRES) (Zoological Society of San Diego)

Grit Schubert

• Ph.D. 2011
• population genetics of Taï chimpanzees and Bonobos
• current position: post-doc Robert Koch Institute, Berlin

Heike Siedel

• technician
• high-throughput sequencing in apes, methods development

Olaf Thalmann

• Ph.D. 2006, Post-doc 2006 - 2008
• temporal dynamics of gorilla population genetic variation
• current position: Post-doctoral fellow, University of Turku