Lennart Randau PhD

Lennart Randau holds a diploma degree in Biology from the Technical University Braunschweig. He finished his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dieter Jahn in 2006. Thereafter, he worked as a Postdoctoral Associate in the group of Prof. Dieter Söll at the Yale University in New Haven (USA) and investigated transfer RNA processing pathways.

Since December 2010, he is head of the Max Planck Research Group for Prokaryotic Small RNA Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg. His present research is focused on studying small RNA-mediated processes in prokaryotes, in particular non-coding RNA gene fragmentation mechanisms in hyperthermophilic archaea and minimal CRISPR-Cas antiviral defense systems in proteobacteria.