Members

Björn Reinius, PI, Assistant Professor

PhD. Molecular Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden

MSc. Chemistry + BSc. Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden

Postdoctoral training: Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg; Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research; Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

Björn is a Ragnar Söderberg Fellow in Medicine and a Wallenberg Fellow in Medicine.

Jilin Zhang, Postdoc

PhD. Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

MSc. Bejing Jiaotong University, China

BA Eng. Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Dosage compensation and transcriptional kinetics in ZW systems. Bioinformatics

Joyce Noble, Postdoc

PhD. Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA

BA Colgate University, Hamilton, New York

The mechanism of X-chromosome upregulation. Stem-cell biology

Antonio Lentini, Postdoc

PhD. Linköping University, Sweden

MSc. Linköping University, Sweden

Dosage Compensation, T-cell biology. Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics

Natalie Papanicolaou, PhD student

MSc. Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. BSc. University of Strasbourg, France

Tissue- and cell-type- specific escape from X-chromosome inactivation. Phase separation

Sebastia Wettersten, PhD student

MSc. Göteborg's Universitet, Sweden.

Turner Syndrome, epigenetics of dosage compensation, Bioinformatics.

Xian Xin, project student

Master student in Bioinformatics, Lund University, Sweden

MSc. Bejing Jiaotong University, China

BSc. Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Dosage compensation in ZW systems.

Fleur Vereijken, project student & Erasmus+ grantee

Biomedical Laboratory Research Program, Van Hall-Larenstein Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

Dosage compensation in the early human development (Bioinformatic project).

Robotic automation of sequencing library preparation (Wet-lab project).

Affiliated members

Leonard Hartmanis, Affiliated PhD student (co-supervision, October 2017 – ongoing)

Thesis work title: "Regulatory patterns of transcriptional kinetics and human genetic variation"

Main lab: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna. Rickard Sandberg's lab.

Nerges Winblad, Affiliated PhD student (co-supervision, 2017-2022)

Thesis work title: "Exploring Early Human Development and Regenerative Medicine utilizing the CRISPR/Cas Gene Editing System"

Main lab: Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge. Fredrik Lanner's lab.


Alumni

Eunkyoung Choi, Master student (Stockholm University, Sweden & Keimyung University, South Korea)

Leyden Fernández Vidal, Postdoc (PhD. University of Barcelona and Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain & MSc. University of Havana, Cuba)

Christos Coucoravas, Postdoc (PhD. Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden & MSc. Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)

Jeroen Spruit, Internship student (Erasmus+ grantee, Van Hall-Larenstein Leeuwarden, the Netherlands)