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Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) image of Salmonella attached to microvilli of a 2Dpolarized intestinal epithelial monolayer. Imaging performed by Nora Trinks in collaboration with Sara Henriksson at Umeå Center for Electron Microscopy (UCEM).   Hello, I´m Finja Dienhart, a PhD candidate with Mikael Sellins' laboratory at Uppsala University. I grew up in Münster, Germany, where I also studied for my [...]

I am Munish, a PhD candidate working at the Institute of Genetics and Development Rennes. I have completed my BS-MS degree at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. During my master’s thesis project, I worked under the guidance of Dr. Rajesh Ramachandran, focusing on understanding the retina regeneration following injury in zebrafish. This project developed my interest [...]

Laura Akintche – Belmonte Lab – CBM Severo Ochoa - Madrid My name is Laura Akintche, and I am one of two MSCA SurfEx network students, part of the Belmonte lab in Madrid, Spain. Although I grew up in Germany, I completed all my university education in the United Kingdom. After graduating from a Bachelor´s degree in Molecular Biology at [...]

We are excited to share this side project we've been working on together with Scienseed! You can now get an overview about what the people at SurfEx are researching through this animated video. We (Fleur, Laura, Monica and Lynn) had a lot of fun coming up with a script and drafting a storyboard - thank you to Nerea and Irene at [...]

Hi, I’m Monica Maselli, a PhD candidate at Utrecht University in the Division of Pharmacology. I’m originally from Italy, where I completed my Bachelor’s in Biotechnologies at University of Bari and my master’s in Pharmaceutical Biotechnologies at the University of Trieste. During my academic journey I developed a strong interest in how cells work and how they form tissues. Now, [...]

I’m Lovely Monney, a PhD student in the Knight group at Queen Mary University of London. I’m originally from Paris in France, where I discovered my passion for cell biology in high school. I went on to study Life and Health Biology at the University of Créteil, then completed a Master’s in Integrative Biology and Physiology at Sorbonne University in [...]

Lynn Hasenöhrl – Boxem Lab – Utrecht University Let me start the round of introductions: I am Lynn Hasenöhrl, a MSCA doctoral candidate in Mike Boxem’s group at Utrecht University. By now, all doctoral candidates of the SurfEx MSCA doctoral network have started and the network is in full swing – we had our kick-off meeting in Utrecht last November where we [...]