My major scientific interest lies in elucidating mechanisms and regulation of fundamental cell biological processes. In particular, I focus on chromosome segregation and cell division, using the nematode C. elegans as a model system.
since 2012
PostDoc ‘Mechanisms of Non-Mendelian Chromosome Segregation in C. elegans’
Advisor: Laurent Keller, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2007-2011
PhD ‘Feedback in the Cell Cycle Control System During Mitosis in C. elegans embryos’
Advisor: Pierre Gönczy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
2006
MSc ‘Regulation of Phagocytosis by Protein Kinase A’
Advisor: Gareth Griffiths, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
2005BSc (Hons) ‘Search for a Glycosyltransferase’
Advisor: Jan Hofsteenge, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
2003
Practical semester ’Mutation Screening in Rett Syndrome Patients’
Supervisor: John Christodoulou, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia
2001-2006
Undergraduate studies in Biotechnology
Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany
