J. Christian Pérez
Principal investigator
Oriana Sanchez Jimenez
Laboratory Technician iI
General lab management; assists senior lab members with microbiology and molecular biology experiments.
Musfirat Shubaita
Master’s student
Musfirat is investigating the metabolic niche that C. albicans occupies in the mammalian intestine. Specifically, she is exploring the role of fatty acids during C. albicans colonization of the murine gut.
Irina Jiménez-Gómez
Postdoc
Irina is exploring the interface between C. albicans and the intestinal mucosa. She employs high resolution fluorescence microscopy to visualize the expression of fungal and intestinal molecules involved in microbe-host cell interactions.
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
Diana Rodriguez Ortega (2021-2024)
Kieu Pham (2021-2022)
Sergio Moreno-Velasquez (2017-2020)
Juliane Meir (2016-2020)
Shweta Fulsundar (2016-2017)
Pedrina Vidigal (2014-2015)
Research Assistants
Mazen Oneissi (2021-2023)
Hailey Nussbaum (2020-2022)
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)