Vienna, Vienna, Austria
🔬 I’m a molecular cell biologist with over 20 years of research experience across a wide range of topics, including autophagy, neurobiology, ciliogenesis, gene editing, genetic screening. I hold a PhD in Molecular Cell Biology from Eötvös Loránd University. 💼 In my current role, I support customers by providing cutting-edge technology and expert guidance to advance research. 🎨 Outside of work, when time allows I read and draw and think of or create scientific illustrations and data visualizations—though these years, time for hobbies is limited.
I worked for four years at the Fly and Worm Facility at IMBA. The Facility provides scientists with CRISPR-based gene-editing solutions. The pipeline spans from planning all the way to the modified organism.
Next to my previous job, I have finished my doctor's thesis and graduated. After graduation, I joined the Dammermann lab. Here I was operating a large-scale genetic screen for genes that are involved in ciliogenesis. The manuscript is in preparation.
During this period, I worked in Barry Dickson's Lab on two separate projects addressing neuronal pattern and courtship behavior in Drosophila. For the first year, I was part of a small team of research assistants doing microscopy on a large neuron-specific GAL4 library. With my work, I contributed significantly to a publicly available image collection and fly strain library. In the second, shorter, and more exciting period I worked in a two-member mini-team. By using the above-mentioned fly library, we embarked on a behavioral screen to map out the neuronal circuit that orchestrates male courtship song. Before the project has ended, the lab split up and people moved to different corners of the world. I decided to stay in Vienna. Our paper is published: "Multifunctional Wing Motor Control of Song and Flight" in Current Biology.
In my Ph.D. training, I have been working on Drosophila autophagy. During this time, I have also been holding the comparative animal anatomy lab with great dedication. Animal anatomy is a field that is much better communicated through drawing, which I enjoy a lot. Before I finished writing my thesis, I decided on financial grounds to join Barry Dickson's lab and move to Vienna with my growing family.