Postdocs

Laura Perez Vidakovics

As a member of the CoroNAb project, I have been working on the expression, purification, and characterization of RBD domain and spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2. These were used for the immunization of animals and further selection of antibodies and nanobodies. In parallel, I have been working on the expression and characterization of nanobodies against SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV-2 variant expansion and characterization in different cell lines. Previously working as assistant researcher at the University of La Plata (IBBM-CONICET), Argentina, on the project “Role of autophagy and ESCRTs machinery in replication of Junin virus (JUNV) and New World arenavirus (NWA)”.

Mykhailo Guzyk

Joined in Summer 2022 from the Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, to continue his research in our lab partly funded by a grant from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)

Hanna Bley

I joined the McInerney lab in October 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher after I obtained my PhD working on identifying cellular host factors for the Hepatitis C Virus in the lab of Prof. Dr. Eva Herker partially at the Leibniz Institute of Virology in Hamburg and The Philipps University or Marburg, Germany.
My current research focusses on understanding the alphavirus-host interplay as well as the human innate immune response as a first line of defense using MS-CETSA. This project has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

Position to be filled

Starting January 2025

Siwen Long

Siwen Long obtained her bachelor’s degree in Animal Science at Huazhong Agricultural University, China in 2016 and master’s degree in Preventive Veterinary Medicine at Huazhong Agricultural University, China in 2019. Siwen was awarded the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) fellowship and started her PhD in 2019. She is developing develop antiviral agents against SARS-CoV-2 by drug screening and researching cellular interactions with viral proteins.

David Mentrup

At the Goethe University in Frankfurt, I finished both my BSc in Biochemistry and BA in Sociology in 2017, the latter focusing on social interactions within the scientific research field. After two internships, working in the press office of the German Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicine and next working in downstream development in the biopharmaceutical industry, I decided to acquire further biocomputational skills. In 2020, I finished my joint Master of Life Sciences at Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Since then, I am conducting my PhD in this lab, studying intracellular shifts in thermal stability of host proteins during viral infections using MS-CETSA in collaboration with Pär Nordlund's Group.