Post-doctoral Fellows
Maria Akhmanova
2016-2024
Present position: Assistant Member, Cell Biology Program,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Marko Roblek
2016-2022
Present position: Principal Investigator,
Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Aparna Ratheesh
2012-2018
Present Position: Assistant Professor,
Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology,
University of Warwick, UK
PhD Theses Supervised
Stephanie Wachner
2022
Transcriptional programs that define a macrophage subpopulation as invasive leader cells
Present Position: Medical Manager at Pfizer GmbH Austria, Vienna, Austria
Shamsi Emtenani
2020
Metabolic regulation of Drosophila macrophage tissue invasion
Post doc at IMBA in Knoeblich lab, Vienna, Austria
Katka Valoskova
2019
The role of a highly conserved major facilitator superfamily member in Drosophila embryonic macrophage invasion
Presently on maternity leave
Vera Belyaeva
2018
Transcriptional regulation of macrophage invasion in the Drosophlia melanogaster embryo
Present Position: Lead Customer BioResearch at Molecular Devices, Salzburg, Austria
Lab Technicians
Hetti Puhm
2022-2023
Present position: Ph.D. student, Lienkamp lab, University of Zurich, Institute of Anatomy
Marianna Pereira Guarda
2021-2022
Present position: Ph.D. student, de Bono lab, IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Julia Biebl Bicher
2015-2020
Present position: Lab Manager, Sweeney Lab, IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Attila Gyoergy
2013-2021
Present position: Technical Manager for 60 labs at Max Perutz Labs Vienna, Austria
Cornelia Schwayer
2012-2013
Present position: Post-doctoral fellow, Prisca Liberali Lab, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Interns
Julia Salapa
Jan-September 2017
Bachelor’s Student Thesis
Present Position: Graduate student at TU Wien in Medical Physics
Gemma Puixeu Sala
Jan-May, 2016, Bachelor’s level
June-August 2016, ISTern
Present Position: Post doctoral Research Fellow in Barton and Vicoso’s labs at IST Austria
Adam Szabo
Jan-May 2015
Post Master’s Intern
Present Position: Country Lead Monitor, ICON pic
Kateryna Shkarina
June-Aug 2014, Master’s ISTern
Sept 2015-Feb 2016, Post Master’s Intern
Present Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Bonn
Matthew Doerfler
July-Dec 2013, ISTern
March-July 2015, Bachelor’s level Intern
Present Position: Medical Resident in Child Neurology, Northwestern University
Antonia Sikhegyi
June-Aug 2013
Bachelor’s level ISTern
Finished her Master’s degree at Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary
Direnis Cayli
June-Sept 2012
Bachelor’s level Intern
Present Position: Post doctoral Research Fellow, Gothenberg University, Sahlgrenska Academy
At NYU
Olivia Moffitt
Undergraduate student
August 2008-2011
Present position: Psychiatrist, Houston, Texas
Doris-Lou Demy
Undergraduate student
April-August 2007
Present position: Scientific Officer, GIS FC3R
Martin Haesemeyer
Masters (Diplom) student
2005-2006
Present position: Assistant Professor, Ohio State University