Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

heisenberg@ist.ac.at 

#lab-leader
#mastermind

The Lab

 

PhD Students

Laura Hofmann

laura.hofmann(at)ist.ac.at

#oogenesis
#balbiani-body

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

Prajwal Patil

prajwal.patil(at)ist.ac.at

#osmosis

#membrane-mechanics
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

Viraj Doddihal


viraj.doddihal(at)ist.ac.at

Tushna Kapoor

tushna.kapoor(at)iist.ac.at

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

Dipanjan Ghosh

dipanjan.ghosh(at)ist.ac.at

#signals-to-shapes
#organogenesis

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

Zachary Gao Sun 

zachary.sun(at)ist.ac.at

#complex-systems #biophysics #statistical-physics

 

 

Staff

Irene Steccari

irene.steccari@ist.ac.at

#research technician

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-sp

Drosophila melanogaster

#fruit-fly