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Exciting News:

Elisa got accepted as a CRC1218 research group leader and will open her own lab very soon: https://sfb1218.uni-koeln.de/projects/research-group-leaders/motori-lab
For further details about her research and potential open positions feel free to contact her directly: elisa.motori@uni-koeln.de

and Hae-Na defended successfully her master thesis about mitochondria trafficking in Purkinje neurons. She will stay in close proximity and start her PhD work in Elisa’s group.

Get-together picture after Hae-Nas online zoom defense in our kitchen in CECAD

Gulzar is leaving us to start a new postdoc period in the Lab of Magdalena Götz in Munich. We miss a friend and a highly regarded colleague. It won’t be same without you! We wish you all the best for your new start and scientific adventures 😉

Yet another online PhD Defense took place. We watched her defense via zoom and can attest: she did great! Congratulations. Esther concentrated on glia cells and observed the role of NEMO/NF-кB signaling in microglia and astrocytes reacting to brain injury. She is off now to another adventure in life 😉 We will see her back in the lab after her maternity and parental leave.

Gulzar discovered important new functions of a mitochondrial protease in adult neural stem cells during his time as a PhD student. His work was supported by the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research. Unfortunately personal contact was still limited due to corona regulations but we tried our best to celebrate this great day! Gulzar and his expertise will stay a little longer in the lab 😉 Needless to say: We are very happy about that.

Corona cannot stop us!

Today Sandra successfully defended her PhD thesis under extraordinary circumstances. Even though we couldn’t support her during her talk, she did an amazing job.