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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

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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: 

  • Surina Surina (our first Ph.D. student graduate) → Postdoc at Vetmeduni Vienna (Austria);

  • Irina Zhitnyak (Metchnikov Fellow, postdoc co-supervised with M. Piel, Institut Curie Paris) → Senior postdoc at UToronto (Canada);

  • Sofiia Frolova (Ernst Mach-Ukraine scholar→ Accepted into the full-time M.D. Program at MedUni Vienna (Austria); 

  • 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); 

  • Christopher Aldrich (M.Sc. thesis student→ Accepted into the Carnegie Mellon University Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program (USA);

  • Aishwarya Beriwal (M.Sc. thesis student Accepted into the University of British Columbia Molecular Cell Biology Ph.D. Program (Canada); 

  • 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).

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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: 

  • Be ambitious, persistent, and determined.

  • Stay humble and modest. Individuals and teams can do amazing things when they share the credit.

  • Great discoveries lurk everywhere; keep your eyes open.

  • Success begins by choosing important problems, coming to fruition with great ideas and great execution.

  • Stay focused and mindful of our goals with a clear understanding of the path ahead.

  • Value uniqueness, helping people be the best they can be at what they do best.

  • 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

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Lab: 01.27

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E: alexis.lomakin@meduniwien.ac.at  

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