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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

Volker Bormuth
Postdoc

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

Christian Bruchatz
Diploma Student

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

Horatiu Fantana
Predoc

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

Claire Friel
Postdoc

Study of the hydrolysis cycles of unconventional kinesins using stopped flow and other biochemical techniques.

Melissa Gardner
Postdoc

Length control of dynamic microtubules by depolymerizing kinesins.

Chris Gell
Postdoc

Development of novel techniques to help study microtubule-kinesin interactions in-vitro at the single molecule level.

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

Veikko Geyer
Predoc

Analysis of the shape and dynamics of the axomemal beat.

Marzuk Kamal
Postdoc

Membrane curvature preference and spontaneous of curvature lipids.

Xin Liang
Postdoc

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

Johnson Madrid
Research Associate

Electron microscopy of mechanoreceptors.

Claudia Martin
Diploma Student

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.

Henri Saleh
Predoc

Mechanoreceptor feedback control of flight in Drosphila.

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

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

Cerasela Dinu
(Former predoc)

Assistant Professor, West Virginia University

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

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/

Khaled Khairy
(Former Postdoc)

Postdoc, EMBO

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

Anton Khmelinskii
(Former Diploma Student)

PhD Student, University of Heidelberg

Ingmar Riedel-Kruse
(Former Predoc)

Assistant Professor, Stanford University

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

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/