Francesco Brian Ciriscioli
Master student, 2025Returned to his home university in Triest, Italy.
Francesco trained with Ollie and studied how the amino composition of the linker of macroH2A1 determines the protein’s behaviour in gene regulation and nuclear distribution.
Jùlia Ledesma Vázquez
Jùlia trained as a lab technician with Vane and René in 2023, and returned during the summer of 2025 to support different projects in the lab.
She is currently studying Biology at the Universitat de Barcelona.
Rachil Koumproglou
EU project manager, 2023-2025Moved to start her own molecular consulting company for plant breeders.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachil-koumproglou/Rachil took over the management of our MSCA doctoral network INTERCEPT-MDS at the end of 2023 and carried it until its very end. She organised the great final network and training event embedded into the EHA congress in Madrid in June 2024.
Eve Dias
PhD student, 2021-2024
https://www.linkedin.com/in/evediasesitech/
Eve joined us as fellow of INTERCEPT-MDS and worked on the consequences of STAG2 deficiency on the interaction of MDS cells with the bone marrow microenvironment.
Iris Uribesalgo
Project Manager, 2020-2023
Moved to European Policy Officer at EU-Life, Spain.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/iris-uribesalgo-phd-9ba32431/
Iris was the key person who managed to get the MSCA-ITN INTERCEPT-MDS up and running. She organised many scientific events including the virtual EMBO meeting on Histone Variants in 2022 and the Spetses Summer School in 2023.
Angela Orso
Master Student, 2022-2023
Returned to University of Trento, Italy.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/iris-uribesalgo-phd-9ba32431/
Angela worked with Jeannine on setting up genetic loss of function screens to identify treatment-sensitising genes in AML.
Roberto Malinverni
Senior bioinformatician, 2011-2022
Moved to Project Leader at Sequentia Biotech, Spain.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmalinverniphd/
Roberto taught us the importance of statistics, contributed to virtually all projects in the lab and last-authored our most cited paper (Gel et al., 2015, Bioinformatics).
Iva Guberovic
PhD student 2016-2021
Moved to postdoc at Harvard Medical School, USA.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/iva-guberovic-0b2809a6/
As a part of the MSCA ChroMe ITN, Iva was interested in studying chromatin metabolite sensing. By solving the first crystal structure in the lab, she studied how did the interaction of histone variants and metabolites change during evolution.
Ainhoa Perez Lopez
Trainee in 2017, and Interim research technician, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023, and Master student in 2024.
Moved first to the Autonomous University of Barcelona to study biology and recently to Barcelona Beta Brain Research Center for a PhD.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ainhoa-pérez-lópez-0189a3245/
Ainhoa has supported us on so many different occasions and that it is difficult to point out a single research line.
Joan Castanyer Costa
Master student 2021
Continued to study a Master in Business Administration, Spain.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joan-castanyer-costa-56b3261b5/
With Joan we learned how to study the interaction between bone marrow stroma cells and hematopietic stem cells in co-culture systems.
Laura Amoedo
Master student and research assistant 2020-2021
Moved to Technician position at the Baculovirus Production Unit at uniQure, Amsterdam, NL.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-amoedo-b44404205/
With Laura and her co-supervisor Iva, we have seen the first neurons grow in the lab. Curious what we will be able to find out.
Michael Maher
PhD student 2016-2020
Moved to clinical trial management at Suvoda, Spain.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-maher-2b02a232/
Through the MSCA ITN ChroMe, Michael developed an interest in fatty acid metabolism in leukemia and identified two new leukemia cell lines now available at DSMZ.
Marguerite-Marie Le Pannérer
PhD student 2017-2022
Moved to therapeutic antibody discovery at Kymab Ltd, a Sanofi company, UK.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mm-le-pannerer/
During her PhD Marguerite-Marie moved from basic research in chromatin looping and repeat elements to the translational analysis of determinants of drug response in leukemia.
Raquel Casquero Galindo
Lab technician 2017-2020
Moved to another technician position within the IJC.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raquel-casquero-galindo-954b1569/
Raquel was instrumental in getting our translational research started by doing drug-response experiments, processing primary bone marrow samples, writing protocols, helping to establish patient sample circuits and much more.
Sarah Hurtado-Bagès
Master student and PhD student 2014-2019
Moved to science communication as CEO and cofounder of scisters.editions.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-hurtado-bagès-ph-d-b09a20103/
Sarah took on the challenge to close our first big study on the link between metabolism and histone variants and initiated the study of its evolutionary origins.
Julien Douet
Postdoc 2009-2017
Moved to Merck, Switzerland
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliendouet/
Julien made the groundbreaking discovery that macroH2A, despite being a component of only 1% of nucleosomes, has a major influence on how the genome distributes in the nucleus. This observation is still keeping us busy.
Anna Palau
PhD student 2011-2016
Moved to postdoc at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-palau-de-miguel/
When moving to the Carreras Institute, it was Anna who drove the group’s transition from embryonic stem cells to leukemia.
Neus Cantariño
Master student and preclinical researcher 2010-2015
Moved to project management at TransPerfect, Spain.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/neus-cantarino-medical-writer/
Neus generated a cell line model for cancer transformation, now available at DSMZ, and got us interested in citrullination.
Melanija Posavec Marjanovic
PhD student and postdoc 2009-2014
Moved to postdoc at Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mm55mm/
Mel made the seminal observation that a histone variant can influence metabolism and came up with a hypothesis explaining it.
Catherine Creppe
Postdoc 2009 – 2013
Moved to postdoc at University of Brussels, Belgium.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-creppe-80a63a3/
Catherine published our first fully independent study and was the lab’s pioneer in stem cell biology.
Marta Soler
Lab manager 2009-2010
Moved to become the institute’s general lab manager, IMPPC, Spain.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martasoler-grima/
Marta was daring enough to be the first to join the lab and did a great job getting us up and running.
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