Research

Current members

Omaya Dudin ¦ PS/FR

TEAM LEADER

Marine Olivetta ¦ CH

Marine Olivetta received her BSc in Biology (2018) and her MSc in Molecular Life Sciences (2020) from the University of Lausanne. For her MSc she investigated the effector proteins of Chlamydia trachomatis in the lab of Dr. Richard Hayward in the University of Cambridge. She joined the DudinLab in 2021.

Myriam Alvarado ¦ CH

LAB MANAGER

TECH STAFF

Baukje Hoogenberg ¦ NL

Baukje Hoogenberg completed her BSc in Molecular Life Sciences (2020) and MSc in Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences (2023) at Utrecht University. During her MSc she joined the lab of Lukas Kapitein (UU) and gained experience in ExM. She also spent time in the lab of Buzz Baum (MRC-LMB, Cambridge) and studied cell division in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. She has now joined the DudinLab to study symmetry breaking in Chromosphaera perkinsii.

PhD STUDENT

Alice Gros completed a Cell Physics Master coupled with an engineering degree at Strasbourg University in 2021. She then joined the Developmental Biology Institute in Marseille (IBDM) for her PhD, supervised by Pierre-François Lenne, Sham Tlili and Léo Guignard. Her project aimed to study the development of embryonic organoids using deep imaging and image analysis, to quantify the emergence of 3D tissue organisation. She joined the Dudin Lab in 2026.

Alice Gros ¦ FR

POST-DOC

Alexander Woglar ¦ AT

Alex Woglar earned his Master's degree from the University of Vienna in 2008, where he developed genomic screens in yeast. He completed his PhD in 2014 under Prof. Jantsch, studying chromosome mobility with a DOC fellowship. At Stanford, supported by an Erwin-Schroedinger fellowship, he focused on chromosome biology and DNA repair during meiosis, developing quantitative cytogenetic tools. In 2020, he joined Prof. Gönczy's team at EPFL with a Marie Curie fellowship, studying centriole and flagellum biology using forward genetic screening and super-resolution expansion microscopy, working with C. elegans, Naegleria gruberi, and Lecudina tuzetae. In 2025, he joined the Dudin lab to establish genetic tools and mutant libraries in Ichthyosporeans.

Felix Mikus ¦ DE

MAITRE ASSISTANT

Felix Mikus received his MSc in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Heidelberg working with Prof. Frischknecht on the role of actin like proteins in Plasmodium. He completed his PhD at EMBL Heidelberg at the group of Gautam Dey in 2025 where he investigated the dynamics of nuclear pore complexes in fission yeasts. During this time, he was involved in a collaborative project utilising expansion microscopy on a broad range of species from environmental and cultured sources to elucidate cytoskeletal organisations across small eukaryotes.
In 2025 he joined the Dudin lab as a post-doc to continue and expand on this as part of a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation project to study eukaryotic life-cycle diversity.

POST-DOC

Kaliya Bandelier ¦ CH

Kaliya Bandelier is a Master Student at UNIGE, exploring the cell biology of Fonticula alba in collaboration with the Kaksonen lab. She is also developping new ExM imaging protocols for aggregative multicellular species.

Iu Sacristan I Cristià ¦ ES

MSc STUDENT

Iu is a 1st year Master Student at UNIGE, exploring the cell biology of Creolimax fragrantissima. He is identifying new antibodies for cell polarity and cell adhesion.

MSc STUDENT

LAB ADMIN

Hiral Shah ¦ IN

Hiral Shah received her BSc in Biotechnology in 2007 from the University of Mumbai and MSc in 2009 from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU). She then worked on budding yeast phenotypic diversity as a Research Fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental research. She then joined the lab of Johannes Manjrekar and Prof. Bharat Chattoo and obtained her Ph.D. in 2020 from MSU for her work on kinetochore dynamics in the rice blast fungus. Since March 2021, she is an EIPOD Fellow at EMBL Heidelberg in the group of Gautam Dey working on a collaborative project with the labs of Omaya Dudin & Yannick Schwab.

Diego Beltrame ¦ CH

POST-DOC

Alumni

2025-2026 ¦ Jessica Charrière, Tech Staff

2023-2025 ¦ Margarida Araújo, Post-doc in collaboration with Dey Lab

2024 ¦ Louis Arthur Tschanz, BSc student with Sailowtech

2022 ¦ Chandni Bhickta, MSc student

2021 ¦ Marie-Alix Gillyboeuf, BSc student

Visitors:

2025 ¦ Kausthubh Ramachandran, EMBL ¦ Fabien Burki, Uppsala University ¦ Laura Merlini, UNIGE ¦ Christopher Toret, UNIGE ¦ Manon Demulder, Biozentrum ¦ Pavel Barahtjan, EPFL ¦ Joanito Liberty, UNIGE ¦ Sofie van Dorst, Biozentrum ¦ Stefano Delamotte, UNIGE¦ Johan Decelle, CNRS ¦ Elif Temirci, UNIGE ¦ Sneha Ann Thomas, NYUAD ¦ Rachid Rezgui, NYUAD ¦ Andrea Garvetto, UIBK