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.