Speaker
Jeremy Herrera
Assistant Research Professor, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
Jeremy Herrera is currently an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Colorado. His goal is to become an expert in the unbiased analysis of proteins (e.g., spatial proteomics) in lung fibrosis. Utilizing the power of spatial proteomics, he intends to understand the crosstalk between epithelial cells and fibroblast to define novel mechanisms of fibroblast activation.
Björn Krenz
Head of Department, Plant Viruses, Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH
Björn Krenz is head of the department of plant viruses at Leibniz Institute DSMZ. He has an extensive research background from the University of Stuttgart to Cornell University, USA. He previously led the "VirusInteract" group at DSMZ and has contributed to key publications in virology.
Mark Kühnel
Group leader at UKA RWTH Aachen, Institute for Pathology. Associated PI in the German center for lung research (DZL).
ark Kühnels main focus lies on the role of macrophages in non-neoplastic pulmonary diseases, especially the regulation of aberrant mechanisms of lung repair and regeneration leading to progressive pulmonary interstitial lung diseases (PF-ILDs).
During his 10 years at Hannover Medical School, Mark has published over 50 scientific articles on various disease entities. He has extensive experience in correlative omics 7 Histopathology analysis in many respiratory diseases. His most recent success was the identification of intussusceptive neoangiogenesis in COVID-19 as a specific molecular trait of SARS-CoV-2 infection in human patient. Currently, his group specialises in the spatial analysis of cell subpopulations in ILDs.
Axel Hochstetter
CEO: Life on a Chip
Axel Hochstetter studied chemistry at the University of Ulm and earned his PhD at the University of Basel, where he investigated the motility of trypanosomes. He developed microfluidic components and used highly focused lasers as optical tweezers. Since then, he has researched applications of microfluidics in single-cell, tissue and biopsy analysis. In 2021, he founded "Life on a Chip," a company offering consulting services and rapid prototyping, providing clients and partners with cost-effective, tailored hardware for their research needs.
Hongbo Jia
Microscopy Core Facility Manager at Combinatorial NeuroImaging Core Facility, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Hongbo Jia, PhD., leads the microscopy core facility service at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (Magdeburg, Germany) and in parallel consults an engineering lab at the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences which builds advanced optical tools for measuring neural network activities at single-cell and sub-cellular precision in intact living brains.