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Group Leader

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James Sáenz
Group Leader
+49 351 463 43066
james.saenz@tu-dresden.de
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James has been a Group Leader at the B CUBE, TU Dresden since November, 2016. He completed his doctoral studies at the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography in Cambridge/Woods Hole, Massachusetts with Professors Timothy Eglinton and Roger Summons. James then went on to do his postdoc at the MPI-CBG with Professor Kai Simons.

Technicians

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Marén Gnädig
Laboratory Technician
+49 351 463 43064
maren.gnaedig@tu-dresden.de

Maren did her apprenticeship as biological-laboratory assistant at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund. in 2005 she joined the research group of Prof. Dr. Hurt of the Biochemistry Center in Heidelberg studying ribosome biogenesis, mRNA translation and decay in S. cerevisiae. In 2016 Maren joined the group of Prof. Dr. Stöcklin to support him to establish his new laboratory in Mannheim before she moved in September 2016 to Dresden to start with the Sáenz Lab.
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Lisa Junghans
Laboratory Technician
+49 351 463 43064
lisa.junghans1@tu-dresden.de
Lisa started her apprenticeship as biological-laboratory-assistant at MPI-CBG under supervision of Prof. Anthony Hyman's group in 2010. After finishing her apprenticeship, she began work as technician at the Protein and Chromatography Facility at MPI-CBG in 2014. Lisa joined the Sáenz Lab in 2016.

Predocs

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Sandra Rizk
Predoc
+49 351 463 43064
sandra.rizk@tu-dresden.de
Sandra is from Cairo, Egypt where she got her B.Sc. degree at the German University in Cairo majoring in Biotechnology, She then moved to Dresden, Germany to pursue a M.Sc. degree in molecular bioengineering, During her studies she worked as a student assistant in Simon Alberti’s lab (at the MPI-CBG) where she helped study the phase transition of proteins in response to stress. Sandra then did her Master thesis project with James Sáenz (then in Simons Lab, at MPI-CBG), and she started her Ph.D with the Sáenz Lab in 2016
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Nataliya Safronova
Predoc
+49 351 463 43064
nataliya.safronova@tu-dresden.de
Nataliya is originally from Moscow, Russia. She received her double bachelor degree in Economics from London School of Economics and The Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She then received her master degree in Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University, where she worked in a Tissue Engineering laboratory with the focus on cancer biology. Started her PhD in the Sáenz Lab in March 2017.
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Tomasz Czerniak
Predoc
+49 351 463 43064
​tomasz.czerniak@tu-dresden.de
Tomasz pursued a bachelors degree in biotechnology at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. His bachelor studies were focused on interactions between short-tailed resorcinols with erythrocyte membranes and liposome bilayers. During a 2 month internship in prof. Martin Hof group working with dr Piotr Jurkiewicz he worked on the chemical synthesis of an NBD-derivative probe and its interactions with liposome bilayers. For his master degree in the Biotechnology of Peptides and Proteins he focused on interaction of Zn(II) ion between zinc-hook peptide models from various organisms (prof. dr hab. Artur Krezel supervision). Following an 8 month internship in the MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology (MPIMP), where he focused on starch metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana (prof. Mark Stitt group, dr Eva-Theresa Pyl supervision) he started his PhD in TU-Dresden at the B CUBE in James Sáenz group in September 2017.

Postdocs

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Grzegorz Chwastek
Postdoc
+49 351 463 43064
grzegorz.chwastek1@tu-dresden.de
Grzegorz is a postdoc at B CUBE institute at Technical University Dresden, where he joined the group of James Sáenz in February 2017. He completed his PhD studies at DIGS-BB in the group of Petra Schwille. He conducted his postdoctoral work at MPI of Biochemistry in Martinsried, IMMF institute in Córdoba and Polish Academia of Science where he developed fluorescence assays to study lipid behaviour and phase separation in lipid systems.

Bioinformatician

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Magdalena Rucinska
+49 351 463 43064
magdalena.rucinska@tu-dresden.de
Magdalena is a Bioinformatician at B-CUBE Institute at TU Dresden, where she joined group of James Sáenz in January 2017. She completed her Bachelor Studies in Biomedical Engineering at Wrocław University of Technology where she obtained an Engineering Diploma. Then she continued her education at the Dresden University of Technology where she pursued her M.Sc. degree in Molecular Bioengineering. During her studies, she worked as a Student Assistant in Jan Brugués Lab at the MPI-CBG where she was responsible for setting up a 3D printer and design and manufacturing devices for microscopy and microfluidics. She did her Master Thesis in a Bioinformatic Group with Michael Schröder, predicting target hopping in a kinase inhibitor screen.

Researchers

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Bartosz Kasprzak
Guest Student
+49 351 463 43064
​bartosz_mateusz.kasprzak@tu-dresden.de
Bartosz completed his Bachelor degree in Biotechnology and his Master thesis in the faculty of Medical Biotechnology at the University of Wrocław, Poland. Bartek has been a part of the Sáenz Lab since March 2017, when he participated in the Erasmus+ student exchange program. His stay has since been extended as a guest researcher to continue studying RNA-lipid interactions.

Past members...

Olga Sidorova - Masters Student
Daniel Grosser - Masters Student
Martyna Broda - Masters Student
Thibaut Lagny - Masters Student
Laboratory of Synthetic Membrane Biology
B CUBE Center for Molecular Bioengineering
Technical University Dresden

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