The Lomakin Lab
Current lab members:
Alexis J. Lomakin (Ph.D.) - PI
Victor Herrera Fernandez (Ph.D.) - Postdoc
Jakub Belhadj (M.Sc.) - Research Assistant
George Gourgi (B.Sc.) - Diploma Student
Lauren Marie Williams (B.Sc.) - Diploma Student
Agata Wisniewska (B.Sc.) - Diploma Student
Matthias Holzleitner - Bachelor's Thesis
Isabell Höhl - Bachelor's Thesis
Marieluise Ungersböck - Bachelor's Thesis
Alumni:
Jana Schneider
Nicolette Szeifer
Olga Sereda
Selena Prantner
Raffael Ebeid
Surina Surina
Benjamin Zrzavý
Christopher Aldrich
Aishwarya Beriwal
Marc Molina Jordán
Katharina Strauß
Marwan Diaa Hussein
Sofiia Frolova
Davide Salati
Anja Hart
Abraham Guerra
Constantin Pierer
Miriam Pedron
Weronika Burek
Morgane Mondon
Ricarda Trapp
Examples of where our trainees go:
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Surina Surina (our first Ph.D. student graduate) → Postdoc at Vetmeduni Vienna (Austria);
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Irina Zhitnyak (Metchnikov Fellow, postdoc co-supervised with M. Piel, Institut Curie Paris) → Senior postdoc at UToronto (Canada);
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Sofiia Frolova (Ernst Mach-Ukraine scholar) → Accepted into the full-time M.D. Program at MedUni Vienna (Austria);
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Jakub Belhadj (research assistant) → Accepted into the Max Delbrück Center (MDC Berlin) International Ph.D. Program via Horizon Europe MSCA - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network (Germany);
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Christopher Aldrich (M.Sc. thesis student) → Accepted into the Carnegie Mellon University Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program (USA);
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Aishwarya Beriwal (M.Sc. thesis student) → Accepted into the University of British Columbia Molecular Cell Biology Ph.D. Program (Canada);
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Marc Molina Jordán (M.Sc. thesis student) → Accepted into the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC Barcelona) Ph.D. Program with a "La Caixa" INPhINIT Fellowship (Spain).
Our funders:
We acknowledge the core funding from our host Institution, the Center for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics, MedUni Wien;
Fellinger Cancer Research Foundation;
OeAD, Agency for Education & Internationalisation
We also wish to acknowledge the previous support received from various international and national funding organizations worldwide:
Our local collaborators:
Mario Brameshuber (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
Core expertise: Single-molecule microscopy, Computational single-particle tracking algorithms, and Experimental cell biophysics
Platzer et al. EMBO Reports, 2023
Brameshuber et al. Nature Immunology, 2018
Rossboth et al. Nature Immunology, 2018
Kareem Elsayad (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
Core expertise: Advanced optical imaging modalities, Brillouin spectroscopy, Raman scattering microscopy
Illibauer et al. PNAS, 2024
Cikes & Elsayad et al. Nature Metabolism, 2023
Elsayad et al. PNAS, 2013
Thomas Köcher (Vienna BioCenter, Austria)
Core expertise: Mass spectrometry & Metabolomics
Emtenani et al. EMBO Journal, 2022
Fiore et al. Molecular Cell, 2022
Bonnay et al. Cell, 2020
Our international collaborators:
David Odde (University of Minnesota, USA)
Core expertise: Multiscale computational modeling, Quantitative cell biology, and Biophysics & mechanobiology
Isomursu et al. Nature Materials, 2022
Gardner et al. Cell, 2014
Chan & Odde. Science, 2008
Eugen Dhimolea (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA)
Core expertise: Adaptive drug-resistance mechanisms in cancer, Therapy-induced diapause- and senescence-like cell resilience, and Systems biology of cancer
de Matos Simoes et al. Nature Cancer, 2024
Dhimolea et al. Cancer Cell, 2021
Duy et al. Cancer Discovery, 2012
Mohan Gupta (Iowa State University, USA)
Core expertise: Microtubules & molecular motors, Chromosome segregation, Tubulin-Taxane interactions, "Humanized" tubulin Saccharomyces cerevisiae model sensitive to Taxanes a.k.a. "Yeast on drugs" system
Tischfield et al. Cell, 2010
Gupta et al. Nature Cell Biology, 2006
Gupta et al. PNAS, 2003
Jan Bouchal (Institute of Molecular & Translational Medicine, Czech Republic)
Core expertise: Clinical & experimental oncology, Molecular pathology of cancer, and Prostate and breast carcinomas
Kvokačková et al. Molecular Oncology, 2023
Kurfurstova et al. Molecular Oncology, 2016
Bouchal et al. Prostate, 2011
Our values and culture:
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Be ambitious, persistent, and determined.
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Stay humble and modest. Individuals and teams can do amazing things when they share the credit.
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Great discoveries lurk everywhere; keep your eyes open.
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Success begins by choosing important problems, coming to fruition with great ideas and great execution.
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Stay focused and mindful of our goals with a clear understanding of the path ahead.
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Value uniqueness, helping people be the best they can be at what they do best.
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Work hard but have fun and be a little quirky.
Job opportunities:
Our vision is to solve complex biomedically-relevant problems in cell & tissue research through highly collaborative, international, and multi-disciplinary team science. Therefore, we welcome scholars from all over the world with backgrounds in both the biomedical and physical/computational sciences. If you are interested in opportunities within the Lomakin lab, please e-mail Dr. Alexis Lomakin: alexis.lomakin@meduniwien.ac.at
Medical University of Vienna
Center for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics
