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. Teng Wei Koay (03/22-)
- In vivo AAV library screens in major organs
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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. Esra Oktay (11/23-)
- Design and synthesis of hybrid AAV - origami (Virogami) nanoparticles
- Targeted in vivo gene delivery using Virogami particles
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Dr. Poonam Vishwakarma (12/23-)
- Design and synthesis of hybrid AAV - origami (Virogami) nanoparticles
- Targeted in vivo gene delivery using Virogami particles
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PhD students
Ning Meng (05/19-)
- Genetic code expansion using AAV vectors
- AAV vector retargeting through combinatorial peptide display
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Felix Bubeck (04/20-)
- Synthetic AAV ITRs for enhanced vector persistence
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Jonas Becker (03/20-)
- Novel in vivo AAV capsid evolution technologies
- AAV-based CRISPR/Cas applications including SARS_CoV-2
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Nico Fischer (10/20-)
- Combinatorial CRISPR/RNAi strategies against HBV/HDV
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Heinz-Georg (Quique) Hildebrand (05/21-)
- AAV engineering for expression of broadly neutralizing antibodies
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