Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

heisenberg@ist.ac.at 

#lab-leader
#mastermind


PhD Students

Suyash Naik

suyash.naik(at)ist.ac.at 

#tissue-spreading
#mechanochemical-signalling
#mechanotransduction

Xin Tong

xin.tong(at)ist.ac.at

#cytokinesis
#actin-cortex
#biomechanics

Michaela Jovic

Michaela.Jovic(at)ist.ac.at

#myoplasm-mechanics
#ascidians

Alena Kizenko

alena.kizenko(at)ist.ac.at

#intermediate-filaments
#evo-devo
#bioinformatics

Laura Hofmann

laura.hofmann(at)ist.ac.at

#oogenesis
#balbiani-body

Roksolana Kobylinska

Roksolana.Kobylinska(at)ist.ac.at

#metabolism

#hypoxia

 

 


Postdocs

Carolina Santos Fernandez Lasbarrères Camelo

carolina.camelo(at)ist.ac.at

#ascidians
#embryo-symmetry

Long Li

long.li(at)iist.ac.at

#cytoskeleton
#membrane-ingression-cytokinesis

Ste Tavano 

stefania.tavano(at)iist.ac.at 

#gastrulation   
#transcriptomics
#cell-adhesion&migration

Tushna Kapoor

tushna.kapoor(at)iist.ac.at

#actin-dynamics
#tissue-spreading
#tissue-mechanics

Gayathri Singaraju

gayathri.singaraju(at)iist.ac.at

#syncytium
#spindle-dynamics

Nikhil Mishra

nikhil.mishra(at)iist.ac.at

#cell-division
#intercellular-bridges

Naoya Hino

naoya.hino(at)iist.ac.at

#epithelial-mechanics
#RhoA-signalling

Lia Heinemann Yerushalmi

lia.heinemann(at)iist.ac.at

#mechano-metabolic-crosstalk
#metabolomics
#embryonic-cleavages

Viraj Doddihal

viraj.doddihal(at)ist.ac.at

 


Staff

Irene Steccari

irene.steccari@ist.ac.at

#research technician
#maternity-leave

Kornelija Pranjic-Ferscha

kornelija.pranjic@ist.ac.at

#research technician

 

 

 


Model Organisms

Danio rerio

#zebrafish
#vertebrate

Phallusia mammillata

#ascidian
#hermaphrodite

https://www.drak.de/ratgeber/lebendfutterkulturen/drosophila-spDrosophila melanogaster

#fruit-fly