Meet Our Team

I'm the Head of research/Associate professor

Sjoerd Wanrooij​

I'm the Lab manage/Senior research engineer

Sonja Stenmark​

I work as research engineer and lab manager. I enjoy helping people, riding snowmobile, playing cards and fishing. The worst with this job is to see the scale covered in unknown powder and to lose my fellow work comrades. Luckily new equally nice ones keep coming

I'm the Postdoc

Namrata Chaudhari ​

I am exploring a highly conserved 5’ to 3’ ssDNA unwinding helicase PIF1 (petite integration frequency 1) known to safeguard nuclear and mitochondrial DNA integrity. Here, my research focuses on identifying PIF1 mediated regulatory mechanisms involved in maintaining genome stability.

I'm the Postdoc

Josefin Forslund ​

I am investigating the biological role and consequences of misincorporation of wrong building blocks, so called ribonucleotides, into DNA. I am especially interested in manipulating ribonucleotide levels in the mitochondrial DNA and study the effect on proteins involved in mitochondrial DNA replication.

I'm the Postdoc

Valentin L’ Hôte

I'm the Doctoral student

Tran Nguyen

BSc. in Biotechnology, University of Science Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

MSc. in Biochemistry and Biotechonogy, University of Oulu, Finland.

I'm the Doctoral studennt​

Andreas Berner ​

BSc. in Molecular Biology & MSc. in Molecular Microbiology University of Graz, Austria
My name is Andi, I am from Austria and currently I am working on PolDIP2. In my free time I do a lot of climbing, especially bouldering, and I love to be in the mountains hiking and ski touring.

Alumni

Mara Doimo​, Principal Investigator at University of Padova, Italy
Gorazd Stojkovič
Mama Ndi
Kazutoshi Kasho, Associate Professor at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Rafil Khairullin, researcher at Kazan Federal University, Russia
Natalie Schindler, Postdoc at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
Anna Åberg, research engineer at the Umeå University, Sweden
Annika Pfeiffer, Postdoc at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
Xin Zhou, Postdoc at the Umeå University, Sweden

 

Former master and project students
Valentin L’ Hôte, PhD student at the Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
Timothée Laurent, PhD student at the Umeå University, Sweden
Karolina Minta, PhD student at Gothenburg University, Sweden
Shelan Alsaied, Master student at Lund Universit