J. Christian Pérez
Principal investigator
Hailey Nussbaum
Research Assistant I
General lab management; plasmid and strain construction; assists senior lab members with molecular biology experiments.
Mazen Oneissi
Research Assistant II
Mazen is dissecting the host cell signal(s) that trigger(s) the activation of a C. albicans regulator of virulence. A second project explores the metabolic niche that C. albicans occupies in the mammalian intestine.
Kieu Pham
Postdoc
Kieu investigates the interplay between the gut bacterial commensal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron and the fungus C. albicans. Specifically, she is exploring the function of several B. theta genetic determinants of fitness in the murine gut during co-colonization with C. albicans.
Diana Rodríguez Ortega
Postdoc
Diana is dissecting the role of a C. albicans family of transcription regulators which contributes to the establishment of mucosal infections. A second project looks at the responses elicited by C. albicans in the mammalian gut, particularly in murine intestinal epithelial cells.
Elena Lindemann-Pérez
Senior Scientist
Elena has broad expertise in Illumina sequencing projects and is interested in single-cell transcript analyses. She is developing approaches to capture, measure and compare the transcriptome of Candida cells that occupy distinct microcompartments in the intestine and other host tissues.
Lab Alumni
Doctoral students
Philipp Reuter-Weissenberger (2017-2021)
Marie-Therese Eckstein (2016-2020)
Valentina del Olmo Toledo (2015-2019)
Lena Boehm (2015-2019)
Postdocs
Sergio Moreno-Velasquez (2017-2020)
Juliane Meir (2016-2020)
Shweta Fulsundar (2016-2017)
Pedrina Vidigal (2014-2015)
Research Assistants
Stanley Odidika (2018-2019)
Sanda Torsin (2015 -2018)
Su Hlaing Tint (2014-2015)
Bachelor thesis or Master Students / Interns
Mara Henrich (2020)
Tobias Ludwig (2016-2017)
Prathibha Muralidhara (2014)
Sonakshi De (2014)