Group Members

Fun Facts: 1. Patti Smith asked me where the toilette was. 2. I realized my biggest dream: driving a garbage truck (full of garbage).

Alessandro Venturino

Research Scientist

Imaging, in vivo electrophysiology, psychedelics, psychiatric disorders

Fun Fact: I love ice cream so much that I ate a 750 ml box in one go.

Medina Korkut Demirbas

PhD Student

Neurotree

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

Fun Fact: Hilariousn't.

Juan Pablo Maya Arteaga

Scientific Intern

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

Fun Fact: I prefer summer over winter and sunset over sunrise.

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

Thomas Negrello

(2025)

Isabella Ivonne Hernandez Islas

(2025)

Yaritza Corona Moreno

(2024)

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

Lusi Zhao

(2025)

 

Mohammadhossein Faramarzi

(2025)