Research

Current members

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 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 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.

Margarida Araujo received her BSc in Biology in 2013 from the School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, and her MSc in 2015 from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal). She then worked on breast cancer biology as a Research Fellow at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Lisbon. Margarida then joined the labs of Raquel Oliveira and Ivo Telley and obtained her Ph.D. in 2023 from Nova University for her work on the role of ER membranes in mitotic spindle size and forces in Drosophila syncytial embryos. Since February 2023, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow at EMBL Heidelberg in the group of Gautam Dey working on a collaborative project with the Dudin Lab.

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.