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Joe Howard

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Lab outing, Wörlitzer Park (September 2011)

 

 

Lab hike in Swiss Saxony (summer 2009)
Standing: Joe, Xin, Horatiu, Claudia, Anastasiya, Marko, Vlado, Volker, Swathi, Jürgen, Heike
Squatting: Marija, Claire, Antje, Johnson, Chris

 

 

Present Lab Members

Joshua Alper
Postdoc

Mechanical coordination of dynein leading to regular flagellar beat.

Aliona Bogdanova
Postdoc

Protein expression systems development.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson
Postdoc

Mathematical models of microtubule dynamics and associated proteins (MAPS).

Christian Bruchatz
Diploma Student

Viscosity of the cytoplasm of the one-cell C. elegans embryo.

Fernando Carrillo Oesterreich
Postdoc

Kinetics of transcription.

Özlem Demir
Predoc

The Effects of Microtubule Dynamics in Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Differentiation.

Horatiu Fantana
Predoc

Development of magnetic tweezers to investigate spindle centering in the C. elegans embryo.

Carlos Garzon Coral
Predoc

Study the mechanics of the mitotic spindle in C. elegans embryo using magnetic tweezers.

Veikko Geyer
Predoc

Analysis of the shape and dynamics of the axomemal beat.

Anneke Hibbel
Predoc

Regulation of microtubule dynamics by polymerases and depolymerases.

Monika Kauer
Diploma student

Regulation of microtubule dynamics by XMAP215 and EB1.

Xin Liang
Postdoc

Touch and hearing by microtubule-based mechanoreceptors in the fly.

More: http://people.mpi-cbg.de/liang

Mohammed Mahamdeh
Postdoc

Development of optical tweezers to study gating of mechano-sensory receptors.

Claudia Martin
Technician

Hydrolysis mechanism of the depolymerizing kinesin-13 MCAK.

Vikram Mukundan
Postdoc

Mechanics of the axoneme measured using MEMS.

Heike Petzold
Technician

Regulation of kinesin motility.

Marija Podolski
Predoc

Single-molecule studies on microtubule polymerases.

Marko Storch
Predoc

Depolymerizing kinesins.

Anastasiya Trushko
Predoc

Microtubule polymerization forces.

Marija Zanic
Postdoc

Regulation of microtubule dynamics by plus-tip proteins such as EB1.

Former Lab Members

Susanne Bechstedt
(Former Predoc)

Postdoc, McGill University

Volker Bormuth
Postdoc

Measurements of frictional forces between motors and microtubules using optical tweezers.

More: http://www.curie.fr/fondation/index.cfm/lang/_gb.htm

Gary Brouhard
(Former postdoc)

Assistant Professor, McGill University

More: http://biology.mcgill.ca/faculty/brouhard/

Alvaro Crevenna
(Former predoc)

Postdoc, MPI-Biochemistry, Munich

More: http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/rg/wedlich/people/Alvaro_Crevenna/index.html

Stefan Diez
(Former Postdoc)

Group Leader, MPI-CBG

More: http://www.mpi-cbg.de/research/research-groups/stefan-diez.html

Cerasela Dinu
(Former predoc)

Assistant Professor, West Virginia University

More: http://www.cemr.wvu.edu/faculty/faculty-detail.php?id=724&type=faculty

Claire Friel
(Former Postdoc)

Lecturer in Protein Biochemistry, University of Nottingham, UK

More: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/BioMedSci/people/school-directory/Claire.Friel

Melissa Gardner
(Former Postdoc)

Length control of dynamic microtubules by depolymerizing kinesins.

More: http://www.gcd.umn.edu/html/faculty.html

Chris Gell
(Former Postdoc)

Former Homepage: http://idisk-srv1.mpi-cbg.de/~gell/Chris_Gell/Chris_Gell.html

Regine Hartmann
(Former Technician)

Technician, University of Queensland, Brisbane

More: http://biodiscovery.imb.uq.edu.au/

Jonne Helenius
(Former postdoc)

Postdoc, BIOTEC, Dresden University of Technology

Frauke Hussmann
(Former Diploma Student)

PhD student, University of Warwick

More: http://mechanochemistry.org/cross/

Annita Jannasch
(Former Diploma Student)

Predoc, Biotec

More: http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/schaeffer/nanomechanics/people.html

Marzuk Kamal
(Former Postdoc)

Postdoc, YNTH-BIO group, Genopole-CNRS, Evry

More: http://synth-bio.org

Khaled Khairy
(Former Postdoc)

Postdoc, EMBO

More: http://www.embl.de/~khairy/index.html

Anton Khmelinskii
(Former Diploma Student)

PhD Student, University of Heidelberg

Johnson Madrid
(Former Research Associate)

Postdoc, Institute of Biophysics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt

More: www.biophys.uni-frankfurt.de/frangakis

Jürgen Mayer
(Former Diploma Student)

Predoc, Sharpe lab, CRG - Centre de Regulació Genòmica

More: http://pasteur.crg.es/

Jacquest Pecreaux
(Former Postdoc)

Postdoc, MPI-CBG

Magdalena Preciado-Lopez
(Former Diploma Student)

Predoc

More: http://www.amolf.nl/

Jan Ribbe
(Former Diploma Student)

Predoc, Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster

More: http://www.uni-muenster.de/Biologie.AllgmZoo/Gruppen/Maier/people.html

Ingmar Riedel-Kruse
(Former Predoc)

Assistant Professor, Stanford University

More: http://www.stanford.edu/group/riedel-kruse/index.html

Henri Saleh
(Former Predoc)

Ravi Sawhney
(Former Predoc)

Office of Science Policy and Analysis, NIH

Erik Schäffer
(Former Postdoc)

Group Leader, BIOTEC, Dresden University of Technology

More: http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/research/schaeffer/

Christoph Schiklenk
(Former Diploma Student)

PhD student at EMBL, Häring Lab

 

Britta Schroth-Diez
(Former Postdoc)

Microscopist, MPI-CBG

Sarah Stratmann
(Former Diploma Student)

 

Vladimir Varga
(Former Predoc)

Postdoc, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford

More: http://users.path.ox.ac.uk/~kgull/index.html

Haiyan Wang
(Visiting Scientist)

Associate Professor, Department of Physica, Beijing Normal University

More http://www.bnu.edu.cn/eng/Academics/schools_and_departments.htm