Pleiner lab
October 2023
Tino Pleiner
Principal Investigator.
Tino was born in the small town Zeitz near Leipzig in East Germany. Tino is a First Generation college graduate. He studied biochemistry and molecular biology in Leipzig and Göttingen, Germany. Tino holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Göttingen, Germany, where he did his lab work at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences with Dirk Görlich. He then escaped the rainy weather in Göttingen to do a postdoc with Rebecca Voorhees at Caltech in sunny Pasadena, California.
Outside of the lab Tino enjoys the natural beauty of California. He likes the outdoors and is a proud houseplant dad and photographer. Check the "Community/Living in California" tab for some of his images. At home, he occasionally plays his guitar, remembers his teenage rock band years and is now glad he did not try too hard to become a rock star.
Research Assistant / LSRP1
Marinda is from Southern Oregon and received her bachelor’s from Willamette University and her master’s from the University of Idaho. She just started in the Pleiner lab in the summer of 2023. In her free time, Marinda enjoys crocheting, playing board games with friends, and walks with her dog!
Marinda Stanton
Lulu Ramirez Cervantes
RA1 and Operations Support Specialist.
Lulu was born in Mexico City, raised in San Jose, California, and received her B.S. in Science from SCU. She's been at Stanford SoM since 2017 and is a member of MCP's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) cabinet. Lulu enjoys traveling and exploring new places with her husband and children.
Baira Godneeva
Postdoc (Incoming - Spring 2024)
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Current Stanford graduate students please reach out to Tino to discuss rotation projects!
Prospective graduate students: Please apply to the Stanford Bioscience program.