head of the NGS team

Telephone +49 221 478 96819

Email kerstin.beckeruni-koeln.de

Kerstin Becker has studied Biological Sciences at the University of Cologne. She completed her PhD thesis on the genetic basis of Dupuytren´s disease, a complex aging associated disease, in 2013 and continued her work as a postdoctoral research fellow on the genetics of complex and monogenetic human diseases at the University and the University Hospital of Cologne. In 2019 she joined the Genomics & Transcriptomics Laboratory (GTL) at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf as a project manager for long-read sequencing, gaining profound insights into the many aspects that determine successful long read sequencing projects, from HMW gDNA extraction and quality control to sequencing. In 2021 she became the head of the NGS platform at the Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG) at the University of Cologne.

Kerstin Becker works on the operation of the NGS platform at the CCG, continuing and optimizing the consulting and realization of sequencing projects from a wide range of research questions and perspectives. One of her current focuses is the expansion of the available long read technologies and protocols at the CCG. She closely cooperates with the NGS platform leaders from Düsseldorf, Bonn and Aachen, who all are part of the West German Genome Center (WGGC). Together they can realize even very large sequencing projects across the four WGGC production sites.
 

List of publications in PubMed