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

Athena Boutou

Postdoc

microglia, neurodegeneration, morphology, transcriptomics

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

Fun fact: If I’m cooking for friends, there’s a good chance I’m making Latvian rauga pankūkas (yeast pancakes) or Persian kashke bademjan (eggplant dish).

Anna Indricane

Scientific Intern

Natalie Yildiz Özgen

PhD Student

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

Group Retreat, November 2024

Alumni

Research Technicians

Katharina Bartalska

(2015 – 2022)

Aaron Farrelly
(2022 – 2023)

Postdoctoral fellow

Balint Nagy

(2017 – 2021)

Ryan Cubero

(2019 – 2023)

Margaret E. Maes

(2017 – 2023)

Rajeshwari Meli

(2016 – 2018)

Graduate students

Verena Schmied

(2017 – 2025)

Florianne Miteva

(2018 – 2025)

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)

Juan Pablo Maya Arteaga

(2024)

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)