Current members

Omaya Dudin ¦ PS/FR

  • Omaya Dudin received his BSc in Cell biology in 2008 and his MSc in Microbiology in 2010 from the University of Grenoble. He then joined the lab of Prof. Sophie Martin and obtained his Ph.D. in 2016 from the University of Lausanne for his work on cell-cell fusion in fission yeast. After which he integrated the multicellgenome lab in Barcelona as an SNSF Early Postdoc Mobility and Marie-curie fellow to study unicellular Holozoa. In 2020, he started the DudinLab first at EPFL, then at the Dpt of Biochemistry at University of Geneva.

Marine Olivetta ¦ CH

  • Marine Olivetta received her BSc in Biology (2018) and her MSc in Molecular Life Sciences (2020) from the University of Lausanne. For her MSc she investigated the effector proteins of Chlamydia trachomatis in the lab of Dr. Richard Hayward in the University of Cambridge. She joined the DudinLab in 2021.

Hiral Shah ¦ IN

  • Hiral Shah received her BSc in Biotechnology in 2007 from the University of Mumbai and MSc in 2009 from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU). She then worked on budding yeast phenotypic diversity as a Research Fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental research. She then joined the lab of Johannes Manjrekar and Prof. Bharat Chattoo and obtained her Ph.D. in 2020 from MSU for her work on kinetochore dynamics in the rice blast fungus. Since March 2021, she is an EIPOD Fellow at EMBL Heidelberg in the group of Gautam Dey working on a collaborative project with the labs of Omaya Dudin & Yannick Schwab.

Diego Beltrame ¦ CH

Technical Staff

Myriam Alvarado ¦ CH

Lab Admin

  • Baukje Hoogenberg completed her BSc in Molecular Life Sciences (2020) and MSc in Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences (2023) at Utrecht University. During her MSc she joined the lab of Lukas Kapitein (UU) and gained experience in ExM. She also spent time in the lab of Buzz Baum (MRC-LMB, Cambridge) and studied cell division in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. She has now joined the DudinLab to study symmetry breaking in Chromosphaera perkinsii.

  • Alex Woglar earned his Master's degree from the University of Vienna in 2008, where he developed genomic screens in yeast. He completed his PhD in 2014 under Prof. Jantsch, studying chromosome mobility with a DOC fellowship. At Stanford, supported by an Erwin-Schroedinger fellowship, he focused on chromosome biology and DNA repair during meiosis, developing quantitative cytogenetic tools. In 2020, he joined Prof. Gönczy's team at EPFL with a Marie Curie fellowship, studying centriole and flagellum biology using forward genetic screening and super-resolution expansion microscopy, working with C. elegans, Naegleria gruberi, and Lecudina tuzetae. In 2025, he joined the Dudin lab to establish genetic tools and mutant libraries in Ichthyosporeans.

Technical Staff

Felix Mikus ¦ DE

  • Felix Mikus received his MSc in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Heidelberg working with Prof. Frischknecht on the role of actin like proteins in Plasmodium. He completed his PhD at EMBL Heidelberg at the group of Gautam Dey in 2025 where he investigated the dynamics of nuclear pore complexes in fission yeasts. During this time, he was involved in a collaborative project utilising expansion microscopy on a broad range of species from environmental and cultured sources to elucidate cytoskeletal organisations across small eukaryotes.
    In 2025 he joined the Dudin lab as a post-doc to continue and expand on this as part of a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation project to study eukaryotic life-cycle diversity.

Alumni

2023-2025 ¦ Margarida Araújo, Post-doc in collaboration with Dey Lab

2024 ¦ Louis Arthur Tschanz, BSc student with Sailowtech

2022 ¦ Chandni Bhickta, MSc student

2021 ¦ Marie-Alix Gillyboeuf, BSc student

Visitors:

2025 ¦ Fabien Burki, Uppsala University ¦ Laura Merlini, UNIGE ¦ Christopher Toret, UNIGE ¦ Manon Demulder, Biozentrum ¦ Pavel Barahtjan, EPFL ¦ Joanito Liberty, UNIGE ¦ Sofie van Dorst, Biozentrum ¦ Stefano Delamotte, UNIGE ¦ Johan Decelle, CNRS ¦ Elif Temirci, UNIGE

2024 ¦ Daphne Laan, EPFL ¦ Kristina Prokina, DEEM Team

2023 ¦ Davide Ciccarese, UNIL ¦ Phil Donoghue, University of Bristol Roberto Feuda, University of Leicester

Lab Life