Group Members

Alessandro Venturino

Research Scientist

Imaging, in vivo electrophysiology, psychedelics, psychiatric disorders

Medina Korkut Demirbas

PhD Student

hiPSC, microglia-like cells, embryonic development, microfluidics, cell migration, imaging

Florianne Schoot Uiterkamp

PhD Student

imaging, retina, optic nerve crush, neuroinflammation

Natalie Yildiz Özgen

PhD Student

retinal circuits, circuit development, microelectrode array, data analysis, imaging, microglia depletion

Thomas Negrello

Scientific Intern

microglia migration, tiling and morphology using data analysis and biophysics

Juan Pablo Maya Arteaga

Scientific Intern

image analysis, data analysis, electrophysiology, TRAP2, microglia migration

Verena Schmied

PhD Student

hiPSC, retinal organoid, microglia-like cells, embryonic development, neuroinflammation

Group Retreat, November 2024

Alumni

Research Technicians

Katharina Bartalska

(2015 – 2022)

Postdoctoral fellow

Balint Nagy

(2017 – 2021)

 

Ryan Cubero

(2019 – 2023)

 

Margaret E. Maes

(2017 – 2023)

 

Rajeshwari Meli

(2016 – 2018)

 

Graduate students

Gloria Colombo

(2017 – 2022)

 

Rouven Schulz

(2017 – 2022)

 

Master students

Rasika Jitendra Bagwe

(2021 – 2022)

 

Gabriele Wögenstein

(2018 – 2020)

 

Iris Soliman

(2017 – 2018) 

 

Verena Hübschmann

(2017– 2018)

Scientific interns

Alessandro Rodia

(2024)

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Filotea Crasovan

(2024)

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Yaritza Corona Moreno
(2024)

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Arsalaan Firoozi

(2024)

 

Amin Alam

(2022 – 2024)

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Negar Vahdani 

(2022 – 2023)

 

Marian Kirsch

(2022)

 

Bohdana Ruzhytska

(2022)

 

Isabelle Mayer

(2021)


Sarah Gorkiewicz

(2020 – 2021)


Ionelia Buzatu
(2021 – 2021)


Mariam Atef Othman
(2019 – 2020)


Irina Khven

(2018)


Julie Harrison

(2019)


Benedetta Mendicino

(2019 – 2020)


Evangelia Fourli

(2018)


Francis Belen Pacheco Fiallos

(2017)


Teresa Maria Lassacher

(2017)


Paulo André Dias Bastos

(2017)


Antonija Mravak

(2017)


Mansi Harvadan Maheta

(2017)


Tanja Himmel

(2016 – 2017)


Marta Biarnes Martinez

(2016)

         
Anna Schrempf

(2016)   

       
Natascha Schmid

(2016) 


Rouven Schulz

(2016)


Gloria Colombo

(2015 – 2016)

Rotation students