Arber Lab members

Technician CONTACT ME

Research interest

Functional characterization of engineered T cells and animal studies.

Background

I graduated from my apprenticeship as a biology laboratory technician at the Center of integrative genomics (CIG). I worked with several groups at CIG, and gained experience in neuroscience in Pr Franken’s & Pr Dion’s group, in genomic science with Pr Gambetta’s group and in metabolism with Pr Thorens’ group. I joined the Arber lab in May 2022.

PhD student CONTACT ME

Research interest 

Discovery and validation of novel T cell receptors targeting neoantigens in hematologic malignancies.

Background 

I earned a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Middle East Technical University (Turkey) and a Master in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease from the Radboud University (the Netherlands). During my master’s, as a graduate research assistant, I worked on a dendritic cell vaccine for treatment of gynecological cancer patients at Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (the Netherlands) and on CRISPRbased gene regulation with CAR signaling in T cell engineering at Refuge Biotechnologies in the United States. I joined the Arber lab as a PhD student in December 2021.

PhD student CONTACT ME

Research interest 

I will be examining novel engineering techniques to address current unmet needs in the development of universal CAR T cells against acute myeloid leukemia.

Background 

I earned my Bachelor in Biomedical Sciences at the National University of Singapore and joined industry to develop biologics against solid tumors. I later obtained my Master in Medical Immunosciences from the University of Bonn (Germany). I completed my master’s thesis at the Roche Innovation Center in Zürich where I worked on the integration of CRISPR/Cas9 and scRNAseq platforms to identify novel targets for cancer immunotherapy.

PhD student CONTACT ME

Research interest

My research is focused on engineering T cells that target and modulate the tumor microenvironment in multiple myeloma.

Background

I obtained my Bachelor’s in Biology from the University of Freiburg (Germany) where I worked on myeloid cell migration at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics. Thereafter, I graduated with a Master’s in Biomedicine from the Karolinska Institute (Sweden) with a research stay at the University of California, Irvine (USA) where I investigated immunosuppressive myeloid cells in breast cancer. I joined the Arber Lab in November 2018 as a PhD student.

Research associate CONTACT ME

Research interest

I am currently studying the T cell / target cell interface using different fluorescent microscopy technologies for live and fixed cell imaging. 

Background

I am a medical oncologist with a strong fundamental research background.

Project intern CONTACT ME

Research interest 

Discovery of neoantigen specific T cell receptors and immune synapse imaging.

Background 

After obtaining a Bachelor in Biomedical Sciences at Maastricht University (The Netherlands), I graduated with a Master in Biomedical Sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven (Belgium) in July 2022. My master’s thesis, performed at the Bioimmunology laboratory of Pr Patrick Matthys (Rega Institute, Belgium), tackled the formation and characterization of granulomas and giant cells aiming at a better understanding of Blau Syndrome, a rare autoinflammatory granulomatous disease.