Kasia was born and raised in Poland. She made her first steps in biological sciences in Casimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz, where she obtained her Bachelors degree. Next she completed her Masters studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Thorn. There, at the Faculty of Immunology she obtained MSc, with the topic of the thesis being the role of Polysaccharide peptide on the production of IL-6 and IL-4 by rat mononuclear cells. After her university education she began an internship at Universitätsklinikum Eppendorf (UKE) in Hamburg, Germany. ...
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I come from Paris region in France. I obtained a Bachelor degree in Biology, followed by a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
During my studies I developed a deep interest for epigenetic regulation of gene expression during the development or in response to pathology.
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Hermann Götz holds a diploma in Physics and has a long standing expertise in microscopy. He worked in Prof. Duschner’s department, who retired in 2013. During this time Hermann’s work mainly focused on topics related to the visualization and characterization of biological hard tissues including bone, teeth and cartilage by several microscopic means including confocal laser scanning microscopy as well as scanning electron microscopy. ...
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My technical research interests are in Single Molecule Biophysics and Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, including superresolution microscopy, deep tissue imaging by fluorescence microscopy and non-linear optical techniques, and my scientific research interests are in TGF-beta, Interleukin, and G-Protein coupled receptor signalling systems as drug targets to address cancer, inflammation and cardiovascular diseases and Alzheimer’s Disease neurodegeneration and Traumatic Brain Injury.
Juliane Mooz was born in Berlin, Germany. She studied Biology at the Julius Maximilian University, Würzburg and obtained her diploma degree in 2007. She has always been interested in scientific journalism, conveying information about the world of science to a public forum.
After finishing University, she had been involved in radio broadcasting, "Talking about science".
In 2009, she joined the lab of Dr. Krishnaraj Rajalingam, studying the regulation of Rac1 and CRAF protein stability.
I was born in a city called Bangalore. Bangalore is located in South India and is the capital of Karnataka. I completed my Bachelor in Science from Bangalore. After completing my Bachelor, I moved to Sydney, Australia and did my Master in Applied Science from the University of Western Sydney.
During my Master studies I decided to shift my focus of research from fermentation technology to infection related diseases. I was fortunate and got accepted for my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin. ...
Prof. Dr. Krishnaraj Rajalingam
krishna@uni-mainz.de
Krishnaraj Rajalingam was born and brought up in a small village called Sitharkadu near Mayiladuthurai, a temple city in the state of TamilNadu, Southern India. After receiving his Masters in Life sciences (M.Sc) from Bharathidasan University, Thiruchirapalli, India he moved to Germany to work with Profs. Thomas Rudel and Thomas Meyer at the Max Planck Institute for Infections Biology (MPIIB) in Berlin. After obtaining his PhD, he continued at MPIIB as a scientist before moving to MSZ at the University of Würzburg to start with his own group....
I was born and brought up in Lyon, France. I did my PhD in France at the CEA near Paris, from 2004 to 2008. The study of the cancer-prone genetic disorder Xeroderma Pigmentosum gave me first insights into the crucial role of DNA damage response in cellular transformation. My postdoctoral research at the Gustave Roussy Institute in France involved another genetic disease called Fanconi Anemia.
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Kristina obtained her B.Sc in Biology at the Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg and she completed her Master in Biochemistry at the University of Regensburg. Her Master thesis itself did she extern in the company Merz Pharmaceuticals. Since 2015 she started as a PhD student in the Research Group of Prof. Dr. Krishnaraj Rajalingam. During her Phd she will focus on the further characterization of the evolutionary conserved and multifunctional IAPs. Identified as inhibitors of effector caspases ...
Sebastian studied biology at the JGU in Mainz. He became interested in cancer research and did his diploma thesis at the Institute of Toxicology, where he generated and modified a lung cancer cell line to study the tumor microenvironment. In 2013, he started his PhD project at the Institute of Translational Oncology (TRON) as a scholar of the “Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Innovation”. During his PhD, he established a novel genetically engineered mouse model for lung cancer research and worked on the combination of cancer immunotherapies. ...
Christiane studied Biology and Molecular Biotechnology in Rheinbach and Bonn. After obtaining her Master's Degree, she joined Prof. Winfried Wels' lab at the Georg-Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt/Main. In her PhD thesis she worked on the generation of tumour-specific natural killer cells for adoptive cancer immunotherapy. As a postdoctoral researcher she joined Prof. Dr. Robert Dinser's lab at the Kerckhoff Clinic in Bad Nauheim. ...
Hajime Yurugi was born and grew up in Kyoto, Japan. He studied about the function of prohibitin in immune cells during his doctorate work.
He found that prohibitin-1 and -2 are induced on the surface of T cells in response to activation and plays a critical role in T cell signaling. In Sep 2013, he received Doctorate of Biotechnology from Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan.
In Nov 2013, he joined Dr. Krishnaraj Rajalingam's group as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
Yinyin Zhuang
PhD student
yizhuang@uni-mainz.de
Stefanie was born in Suhl and grew up in Thuringia, Germany. After grammar school, she performed her apprenticeship training as biological-technical assistant at the Adolf-Reichwein-School in Marburg from 2003 and 2005. She had several positions in different laboratories – among them labs at the Charité in Berlin and the DKFZ in Heidelberg. After joining the group in 2017, she is now involved in several projects and is responsible for routine laboratory work. Stefanie has two children, who were born in 2012 and 2016.
Yinyin Zhuang was born and grew up in Zhanjiang, a coastal city in Guangdong, China. She obtained her bachelor degree in Food Science and Engineering at Tianjin University and Hainan University, then moved to Singapore for her master degree in Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Prior to becoming a Ph.D. student in Prof. Dr. Krishnaraj Rajalingam's lab, Zhuang worked as a research associate under the supervision of Dr. Wenting Zhao at NTU, focusing on membrane curvature-dependent activities in live cells and in vitro. Now she is investigating the role of prohibitins at the plasma membrane in regulation of RAS activation and tumorigenesis.