Speakers
We are delighted that the following speakers have confirmed to join our alumni reunion.
Cell and Developmental Biology

Gabriele Zaffagnini
Junior Group Leader - Institute for Genetics (UoC) of Cologne Excellence Cluster for Aging and Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) Research Centre, University of Cologne, Germany.
PhD student & Postdoc in Sascha Martens group, Max Perutz Labs, 2012-2016.

Eva Hörmannseder
Group Leader - Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells (IES), Helmholtz Munich, Germany.
Diploma student in Jürgen Knoblich group, IMBA, 2006.

Krista Briedis Gert
Postdoc - Claudia Gerri lab, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.
PhD student in the Pauli group, IMP, 2017-2023.
Translational Sciences

Maria Sibilia
Professor for Tumorbiology, Director of the Center for Cancer Research and President of the Senate of the Medical University of Vienna.
Postdoc & Staff scientist in the Wagner group, IMP, 1992-1998.

Reiner Wimmer
Subchapter Lead, Pathology and Applied Safety Sciences (PASS), Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), Roche, Switzerland.
Postdoc in the Penninger group, IMBA, 2012-2020.

Matthias Samwer
Scientific Director in the Cancer Cell Signaling Department - Boehringer Ingelheim, Vienna, Austria.
Postdoc in the Gerlich group, IMBA, 2013-2017.
Evolution and gene regulation

Hannes Svardal
Associate research professor - Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Postdoc in the Nordborg group, GMI, 2012-2015.

Lucia Daxinger
Associate professor - Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
PhD student & Postdoc in the Matzke group, GMI, 2004-2009.

Sean Montgomery
Postdoc - Arnau Sebe-Pedros lab, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain.
PhD student in the Berger group, GMI, 2016-2022.
Virology and Immunology

Max Kellner
Junior Group Leader - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Munich, Germany.
PhD student in the Penninger group, IMBA, 2021-2025.

Marco Incarbone
Group Leader - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Postdam, Germany.
Postdoc in the Mittelsten Scheid group, GMI, 2018-2023.

Olivia Majer
Group Leader - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio, USA.
PhD student in the Kuchler Lab, Max Perutz Labs, 2008-2012.
Structural Biology

Frank Uhlmann
Principal Group Leader - Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Postdoc in the Nasmyth group, IMP, 1997-2000.

Marcin J. Suskiewicz
Co-leader of research group - Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), CNRS, Orléans, France.
Postdoc in Clausen group, IMP, 2015-2018.

Sara Cuylen-Häring
Group Leader - Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.
Postdoc in the Gerlich group, IMBA, 2011-2017.