I am currently a DFG postdoc fellow in Alexander van Oudenaardens Lab at MIT.
My research interest focuses on dynamic information processing in individual cells using a single molecule approach in systems biology.
A current topic of cellular biology inquiry is how cells respond to changes in their environment utilizing their cellular networks. In my postdoctoral research, I am investigating endogenous signal transduction and gene regulatory networks in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and in mammalian cells. This research approach combines quantitative single molecule experiments in individual cells with mathematical modeling. The goal is to gain a systems level understanding of complexity in information processing in single cells.
Before joining Alexander van Oudenaardens group, I did my Ph.D. in the lab of Hermann E. Gaub at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany in single molecule biophysics.