Alumni

Hall of Fame

2022

Dr. Gloria Colombo

PhD Graduate

Dr. Rouven Schulz

PhD Graduate

Katarina Bartalska

Research Technician

Negar Vahdani

Intern

2021

Dr. Balint Nagy

Postdoc

2020

Gabriele Wogenstein

MSc Student

2018

Dr. Rajeshwari Meli

Postdoctoral fellow

Iris Soliman

Intern/MSc Student

2017

Antonija Mravak

Intern

Jasmin Primus

Colony Manager

Tanja Himmel

Intern

2016

Natascha Schmid

Intern

Detailed Alumni Timeline

Research technician

  • Katharina Bartalska, MSc, 2015 – 2022. 
    Differentiation and analysis of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-derived retinal organoids and microglia.

Postdoc

  • Balint Nagy, 2017 – 2021.
    Investigation of the role of microglia in postnatal retina development.

    Now: Study director at Charles River Laboratories, Veszprem, Hungary.
  • Rajeshwari Meli, FWF Hertha Firnberg fellowship recipient, 2016 – 2018.
    The role of microglia in neuronal ceroid-lipofuscionosis
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PhD students

  • Gloria Colombo, 2017 – 2022.
    MorphOMICs, a tool for mapping microglial morphology, reveals brain region- and sex-dependent phenotypes.

  • Now: Postdoc in Prof. Rosa Chiara Paolicelli lab at the Universite de Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland.

  • Rouven Schulz, OeAW DOC fellowship recipient, 2017 – 2022.
    Chimeric G protein-coupled receptors mimic distinct signaling pathways and modulate microglia function.

Master students:

  • Rasika Jitendra Bagwe, BSc, 2021 – 2022.
  • Gabriele Wögenstein, BSc, 2018 – 2020. Optimizing strategies for efficient transgene delivery in microglia via viral approaches.
    Now: PhD student University of Zürich, Lab for Retinal Cell Biology, Zürich, Switzerland.
  • Iris Soliman, BSc, 2017 – 2018.
  • Verena Hübschmann, BSc, 2017– 2018. Characterization of microglia-like cells differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.
    Now: Joined ISTA graduate school program in 2018. Affiliated to my research group in 2019.

 Scientific intern:

  • Marian Kirsch, Student, 08.2022
  • Bohdana Ruzhytska, Student, Academic Visitor, 03.2022 – 09.2022.
  • Isabelle Mayer, 05.2021 – 09.2021.
  • Sarah Gorkiewicz, 06.2020 – 09.2021.
  • Ionelia Buzatu, Academic Visitor, 06.2021 – 09.2021.
  • Mariam Atef Othman, 12.2019 – 05.2020.
  • Irina Khven, Academic Visitor, 06.2018 – 09.2018.
  • Julie Harrison, Academic Visitor, 06.2019 – 08.2019.
  • Benedetta Mendicino, 03.2019 – 02.2020.
  • Evangelia Fourli, 02.2018 – 07.2018.
  • Francis Belen Pacheco Fiallos, 07.2017 – 09.2017.
  • Teresa Maria Lassacher, BSc., 05.2017 – 08.2017. 
  • Paulo André Dias Bastos, MSc, 02.2017 – 06.2017.
  • Antonija Mravak, MSc, 01.2017 – 07.2017.
  • Mansi Harvadan Maheta, BSc, ERASMUS trainee, 03.2017 – 05.2017.
  • Tanja Himmel, Med.vet, 11.2016 – 02.2017.
  • Marta Biarnes Martinez, BSc., ERASMUS trainee, 09.2016 – 12.2016.            
  • Anna Schrempf, BSc., 08.2016 – 10.2016.            
  • Natascha Schmid, BSc., Academic Visitor, 06.2016 – 08.2016.   
  • Rouven Schulz, MSc, 04.2016 – 09.2016.
  • Gloria Colombo, MSc, ERASMUS trainee, 11.2015 – 09.2016.