Research group & collaborators
Domagoj Cikes
Principal Investigator
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PhD Medical University of Innsbruck
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Postdoctoral training IMBA - Vienna BioCenter (VBC)
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Research areas: metabolism, organelle biology, comparative longevity, healthy aging
GRADUATE RESEARCHERS AND ASSISTANTS
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Nicolo Sbardellati
PhD candiate
Nicolò Sbardellati comes from Mantua, Italy. He is studying the evolutionary mechanisms of organelle resilience to aging in long lived mammals.
Raluca Vladu
MSc canddate
Raluca Vladu comes from Bucharest, Romania. She studies organelle-level adaptations of long-lived organisms to stress.
Sophie Neswadba
MSc candidate
Sophie Neswadba is from Vienna, Austria. She studies evolutionary mechanisms of mitochondrial resilience in long-lived mammals.
Angelika Freudenthaler
Research Assistant
Angelika comes from Vienna. She supports the laboratory's research activities in cell culture, molecular biology and experimental workflows.
Past group members
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Hannah Lang, Intern student
COLLABORATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
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Our research is supported through collaborations with investigators across Europe, North America and Asia, integrating expertise in aging, stem cell biology, comparative biology and systems medicine. We are closely collaborating with ZOOs and animal repositoris for expansion of our iPSC biobank
Scientific network:
David M. Sabatini - IOCB Prague / Boston
Brian Kennedy - NUS Singapore
Jeffrey S. Chamberlain - University of Washington
Bjorn Schumacher - CECAD Cologne
Alejandro Burga - IMBA
Kivanc Birsoy - Rockefeller University
Josef M. Penninger - HZI Braunschweig
Sandro Cosconati - University dei Campania
Cedric Moro - INSERM Tolouse