Research interests

• Molecular mechanisms in child psychiatry
• Epigenetic markers in psychopathology in early childhood
• Molecular markers for prenatal stress and substance usage
• Advanced fluorescence techniques

Education

07/2019 – 01/2025  PhD in Chemistry (Dr. rer. nat), 
Laboratory for Neurobiology, Max-Planck-Institute for multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany and
Department of Biophysical Chemistry, TU Braunschweig, Germany

10/2016 – 03/2019  Master of Science in Biotechnology, TU Braunschweig, Germany

10/20012 – 09/2015  Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, University of Göttingen, Germany

Employment

Since 03/2025  Head of Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

04/2021 – 02/2025  Research Associate (Doctorate), Laboratory for Neurobiology, Max-Planck-Institute for multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany

07/2018 – 03/2021  Reserach Associate (Doctorate), Department of Biophysical Chemistry, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Publications

Grothe, T., Walla, P.J. (2022). Building and Using a Two-Photon Fluorescence Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy Setup Including Fluorescence Lifetime Analysis. In: Dahlmanns, J., Dahlmanns, M. (eds) Synaptic Vesicles. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2417. Humana, New York, NY. doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1916-2_12

Grothe, T., Walla, P.J. (2022). Fluorescence Lifetime and Cross-correlation Spectroscopy for Observing Membrane Fusion of Liposome Models Containing Synaptic Proteins. In: Dahlmanns, J., Dahlmanns, M. (eds) Synaptic Vesicles. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2417. Humana, New York, NY. doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1916-2_13 

Grothe, T., Nowak, J., Jahn, R., P.J. Walla. (2021). Selected tools to visualize membrane interactions. Eur Biophys J 50, 211–222. doi.org/10.1007/s00249-021-01516-6

B. E. Hubrich, P. Kumar, H. Neitz, M. Grunwald, T. Grothe, P. J. Walla, R. Jahn, U. Diederichsen.(2018). PNA Hybrid Sequences as Recognition Units in SNARE-Protein-Mimicking Peptides. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 14932. doi.org/10.1002/anie.201805752

ORCID: 0000-0002-6616-0272

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