SPAGNOLI LAB MEMBERS

 
 
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Francesca M. Spagnoli
Francesca M. Spagnoli

Role: Group Leader, Professor of Regenerative Medicine

Francesca has recently moved to London to become a Group Leader at the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, King's College London. She has been the recipient of prestigious grants, including an ERC Starting grant, ERC Proof-of-Concept grant, and and Wellcome Trust Investigator award. More recently, she became the coordinator of a FET OpenEuropean consortium on bioengineering pancreatic tissue. She is also the Director of Wellcome Trust PhD Programme called ‘Advanced Therapies for Regenerative Medicine’.

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Alejo Torres Cano
Alejo Torres Cano

Role: Postdoc

I have joined Prof. Spagnoli’s lab as a postdoc to study how the pancreatic microenvironment shapes cellular communication during pancreas development.

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Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee

Role: Postdoc

I have joined Spagnoli Lab as a HFSP postdoctoral fellow to explore the intercellular crosstalk between immune cells and the developing pancreas.

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Georgina Goss
Georgina Goss

Role: Postdoc

I have joined the Spagnoli Lab as a postdoc to investigate mesenchyme heterogeneity and how this affects pancreas development to create an accurate ex-vivo pancreatic niche.

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Abigail Isaacson
Abigail Isaacson

Role: PhD Student

I completed my Master’s degree in regenerative medicine at UCL and afterwards worked as a research assistant at the Sanger Institute. While there, I worked to establish a pipeline for genetic knockout studies on induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived hepatocytes.

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Anna Salowka
Anna Salowka

Role: Research Assistant

I’m a research assistant in Prof. Spagnoli lab. I completed my undergraduate degree in Molecular Genetics at Kings College London and I’m currently finishing my MRes course in Molecular Basis of Human disease at Imperial College London. Some of my favourite things to do outside science include dancing, cooking and baking.

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Jean Francois Darrigrand
Jean Francois Darrigrand

Role: Postdoc

I have joined the Spagnoli Lab as a postdoc to work on the importance of the extracellular matrix and mesenchyme for the spatial development of the pancreas.

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Heather Wilson
Heather Wilson

Role: Research Assistant

Heather is a research assistant in the lab, working on direct reprogramming of human fibroblasts into pancreatic beta-like cells. She obtained a BSc in genetics and immunology from the Australian National University, where she subsequently worked on an ENU mutagenesis screen to identify novel mutations affecting gastrulation and organogenesis in mice.

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ALUMNI

STAFF

  • 2008-2018 Heike Naumann Lab Manager (now MDC, Berlin, Germany)


PHD STUDENTS

  • 2008-2012 Kristin Petzold (now Parexel International Corp.) 

  • 2008-2014 Nuria Cerda-Esteban (now Science Management, MDC, Germany)

  • 2009-2013 Igor Pongrac (now at Merck Group)

  • 2010-2014 Julia Kofent

  • 2013-2018 Corinna Cozzitorto (now postdoc at UCSF, USA)

  • 2013-2018 Juan Zhang (now postdoc University of Toronto, CA)

  • 2014-2020 Silvia Ruzittu [now postdoc BMBS, Berlin, Germany]

  • 2015-2020 Laura Mueller [now global product manager Miltenyi Biotec, Germany]

  • 2015-2021 David Willnow [now postdoc at The Crick, London, UK]


POSTDOCS

  • 2009-2013 Elisa Rodriguez-Seguel (now Assistant Professor, UFRO, CL)

  • 2013-2016 Sophie Escot (now Postdoc LOB, Ecole Polytechnique, FR)


MASTER / UGRAD STUDENTS

  • 2008 Hendrik Messal (Master Charite Mol Medicine, DE)

  • 2010 Clement Charenton (ENS, Cachan, FR)

  • 2016 Stylianos Gnafakis (Master Charite Mol Medicine, DE)

  • 2016 Silvia DiFrancescantonio (Erasmus Postgraduate, La Sapienza, IT)

  • 2017 Renata Risi (MD Internship, La Sapienza, IT)

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