Postdocs
Dr. Kleopatra Rapti
- Directed evolution of AAV vectors in the liver, eye and kidney
- Experimental & bioinfomatic high-throughput screening pipelines
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Dr. Olena Maiakovska (11/20-)
- Analysis of AAV next-generation sequencing data (Illumina, PacBio)
- Establishment of user-friendly AAV alignment and analysis tools
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Dr. Kristian Leite (03/22-)
- In vivo AAV library screens in major organs
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Dr. Deepak K. Gupta (03/23-)
- Analysis of AAV NGS data
- Development of methods and bioinformatics pipelines for NGS data analysis
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Dr. Sergio D. M. Velasquez (07/22-)
- Development of novel gene therapy vectors derived from Bocavirus
- Engineering of synthetic circuits to control bocavirus vector production
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Dr. Man Xu (09/23-)
- Engineering of synthetic AAV capsids through peptide display & shuffling
- Directed evolution of AAV capsids in multiple major organs in animal models
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Dr. Jan Bieri (03/25-)
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Dr. Ning Meng (05/19-)
- Genetic code expansion using AAV vectors
- AAV vector retargeting through combinatorial peptide display
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Dr. Felix Bubeck (10/19-)
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PhD students
Heinz-Georg (Quique) Hildebrand (05/21-)
- AAV engineering for expression of broadly neutralizing antibodies
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Jixin Liu (01/22-)
- AAV Rep protein engineering
- AAV screening in the CNS and musculature
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Technicians
- Miguel Palma-Marques (2025)
- Christopher Hub (2025)
- Ante Mrkonjic (2025)
- Doris Zimmermann (2026)
- Jordan Dattero (2025)
- David Triebel (2025)
- Timur Bozkurt (2026)
- Linda Ruck (2025)
- Sophia Krastev (2025)
- Katya Georgieva (2025
- Julia Oesterle (2026)