Seung Joon Kim
Rajewsky lab, MDC, Berlin, Germany
Nationality: South Korea – Master degree: Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
What was the title of your master thesis? Effects of Collagen gel stiffness on Cdc42 activities of Endothelial colony forming cells during early vacuole formation
What is the key objective of your PhD project? Development of a method for total RNA sequencing in single cells that allows circRNA quantification
What do you like best about your new location? Multi-culture, light life style
What do you still need to get used to? Language (Both German and English)
Aristotelis Misios
Rajewsky lab, MDC, Berlin, Germany
Nationality: Greek – Master Degree: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
What was the title of your master thesis? Codon Bias and the Cell cycle
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Tamas Sztanka-Toth
Rajewsky lab, MDC, Berlin, Germany
Nationality: Hungarian – Master Degree: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
What was the title of your master thesis? Chromosome-wide analysis of cytosine methylation outliers in Arabidopsis thaliana
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Marwan Zouinkhi
Preibisch lab, MDC, Berlin, Germany
Nationality: Tunesian – Master Degree: Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology of Sousse
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Stephen Nuthalapati
Bindereif lab, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
Nationality: Indian – Master Degree: Vellore Institute of Technology
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Anna Didio
Bindereif lab, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
Nationality: Russian – Master Degree: Saint Petersburg State University
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Alvaro Centron
Bozzoni lab, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
Nationality: Spanish – Master degree: Pablo de Olavide University, Spain
What was the title of your master thesis?Searching for gene clusters related to virulence by coding sequence conservation
What is the key objective of your PhD project?To analyze the function of circRNAs in muscle differentiation and tumoral cell lines and their biogenesis
What do you like best about your new location? Rome is the eternal city and it offers a lot of things to see and do. Also, I have found wonderful people in my lab.
What do you still need to get used to? Public transport still has a long way to go before being efficient.
Patryk Polinski
Irimia lab, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Nationality: Polish – Master Degree: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
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Ines Lucia Patop
Kadener lab, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel now Brandeis University, MA, USA
Nationality: Argentina – Master degree: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
What was the title of your master thesis? Signaling by pheromone in Saccharomyces cerevisiae , effect of the physical interaction between the receptor Ste2 and the inhibitory protein Sst2.
What is the key objective of your PhD project? Unraveling Molecular and Physiological functions of circRNAs. Transcriptome analysis of D. melanogaster brain at SingleCell level: Deconstructing-Reconstructing circRNA function.
What do you like best about your new location? The campus is really nice, the Israelis are also super nice and the landscapes are beautiful.
What do you still need to get used to? Some details regarding the security controls, religious people and being away from home.
Note: During the Project, Ines relocated together with her host Prof. Sebastian Kadener from Hebrew University, Israel to circRTrain Partner Brandeis University, MA, USA.
Liviu Ionut Moldovan
Kjems lab, Aarhus University, Denmark
Nationality: Romania – Master degee: medical degree from Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie „Iuliu Hațieganu” din Cluj-Napoca
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Iju Lo
Qiagen, Aarhus, Denmark
Nationality: Taiwan – Master degree: Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich Germany
What was the title of your master thesis? The Evolution of FtsX Domain Proteins in Firmicutes Bacteria
What is the key objective of your PhD project? To find potential biomarkers and causative agents in aging and related neurological diseases from brain tissue and biofluid
What do you like best about your new location? Friendly people and food
What do you still need to get used to? Climate
Mateja Rybicka-Tesulov
Pasterkamp lab, UMC Utrecht, Netherlands
Nationality: Austrian – Master degree: University of Vienna, Austria
What was the title of your master thesis? Oxytocin receptor signaling in developing interneurons
What is the key objective of your PhD project? To dissect the role of axon-guidance-gene derived circRNA in brain development.
What do you like best about your new location? The people, that everything is “lekker” and “gezellig”, the canals, flowers and bicycles.
What do you still need to get used to? The dutch weather.
Andreia Gomes Duarte
Pasterkamp lab, UMC Utrecht, Netherlands
Nationality: Portugal – Master degree: Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon, Portugal
What was the title of your master thesis? Study of the effects of HGF treatment in cells derived from the bronchial epithelium of patients with cystic fibrosis: evaluation of its regenerative versus oncogenic properties
What is the key objective of your PhD project? To unravel the functional role of circRNAs in neurological pathologies and establish new therapeutic targets in TLE and ALS.
What do you like best about your new location? To be surrounded by the beauty of the canals, wide variety of green areas and to cycle everyday.
What do you still need to get used to? Different food and bad weather!
Sabine Seeler
Kjems lab, Aarhus University, Denmark
Nationality: German – Master Degree: Heidelberg University, Germany
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Eoghan O’Leary
Hansen lab, Aarhus University, Denmark
Nationality: Irish – Master Degree: University College Cork, Ireland
What was the title of your master thesis? Biochemical confirmation of protein-protein interactions and the phosphorylation status of the human RNA-binding protein, SMAUG1
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