Given the nature of our interdisciplinary research we tend to maintain a lab with ~20 members. In such an environment, those graduate students and postdocs who excel are self-driven and willing to engage in rigorous peer-to-peer training. We also welcome applications from student and fellow candidates with explicit interests in dual-lab membership. At UTSW we have longstanding collaborations with the Fiolka lab. Other, applicant-initiated collaboration arrangements are possible as well.
While the lab is well-funded, the application for fellowships and other forms of independent funding is a mandatory part of the mentorship offered by Gaudenz Danuser, both at the graduate student and postdoctoral fellow levels. As members of the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics, fellows with independent funding receive significant financial incentives. We also welcome candidates for postdoctoral trainee positions with relevant industrial experience. Limited financial resources are available to fill some of the compensation gap between academic and private sector research positions.
The lab is fully equipped for state-of-the-art molecular cell biology, microscopy, and computer science research. We are supported by highly professional staff members and project managers, who offer trainees unique expertise in bench and desk work and who ensure a longitudinal transfer of lab know-how.
Where our trainees go …
Postdocs
| Name and Specialty | First Position After Training |
|---|---|
| Orlando Arguello-Miranda Molecular Biology (K99 Fellow) |
North Carolina State University, Raleigh (Assistant Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology) |
| Eric Welf Systems Biology (K25 Fellow) |
Regeneron, Westchester, New York (Senior Research Associate, Systems Pharmacology) |
| Phillippe Roudot Computer Science (HFSP Fellow) |
University of Marseille, France (Assistant Professor, Turing Center for Living Systems) |
| Christoph Burckhardt Cell Biology (Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow, Roche Research Foundation Fellow) |
Lonza, Visp, Switzerland (Senior Research Scientist) |
| Quiyang Shao Biochemistry |
Wells Fargo (Data Scientist) |
| Xiao Ma Mechanical Engineering |
New York University, New York (Assistant Professor, Bioengineering) |
| Maria Bagonis Chemistry |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Postdoctoral Researcher, Computer Science & Psychiatry) |
| Kevin Dean Chemistry (NIH F32 awardee) |
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology) |
| Assaf Zaritzky Computer Science |
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel (Assistant Professor, Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering) |
| Zhengwen Zhang Bioengineering |
Southern Methodist University, Dallas (Master's program in computer science) |
| Zhuo Gan Bioengineering |
Censeo Health, Dallas (Data Analyst) |
| Sangyoon Han Mechanical Engineering |
Michigan Tech University, Houghton, Michigan (Assistant Professor for Biomedical Engineering) |
| Claudia Schaefer Cell Biology |
MIT/Koch Institute for Cancer Research, Boston, Massachusetts (Research Associate) |
| Liya Ding Computer Science |
Allen Institute for Cell Science, Seattle, Washington (Research Associate) |
| Marco Vilela Applied Mathematics (NIH F32 awardee) |
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (Research Faculty) |
| Deepak Chitajallu Computer Science |
Kitware Inc. Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Staff Scientist) |
| Francois Aguet Computer Science (SNSF awardee) |
Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (Staff Scientist) |
| Alexis Lomakin Cell Biology |
King's College London, London, UK (King's Prize Fellow and Group Leader) |
| Nancy Costigliola Cell Biology |
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (second postdoc with Tim Mitchison) |
| Kwonmoo Lee Physics and Biochemistry (NIH F32 awardee) |
Worcester Polytechnical Institute, Massachusetts (Assistant Professor in Bioengineering) |
| Michelle Mendoza Cell Biology (NIH K25 awardee, joint postdoc with John Blenis) |
UC San Francisco, California (Assistant Professor in Cell Biology) |
| Laura-Anne Lowery Developmental Biology (NIH K99/R00 awardee, joint postdoc with Davie Van Vactor) |
Boston College, Massachusetts (Assistant Professor in Cell Biology) |
| Uli Schmid Biophysics (DFG awardee) |
TWT Science and Innovation, Stuttgart, Germany (Research Project Manager) |
| Sylvain Berlemont Computer Science |
Founder & CEO, Keen Eye Technologies, Paris, France |
| Allen Liu Biophysics (Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fellowship, NIH K99/R00 awardee, joint postdoc with Sandra Schmid) |
U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering) |
| Achim Besser Biophysics (DFG awardee) |
BASF Research, Ludwigshafen, Germany (Research Group Leader) |
| Christian Dittrich Chemistry (Novartis Research Foundation fellowship) |
Merck Millipore, Schaffhausen, CH (Project Manager) |
| Andrea Bacconi Cell Biology (SNSF awardee) |
TSRI, La Jolla, California (Second postdoc with Velia Fowler) |
| Mohsen Sabouri Physics |
TSRI, La Jolla, California (Staff Scientist) |
| Khuloud Jaqaman Physics (Helen Hay Whitney Foundation fellow) |
UT Southwestern Medical Center (Assistant Professor in Biophysics) |
| Shann-Ching Chen Computer Science |
Institute for Computational Health Sciences, UC San Francisco, California (Staff Scientist) |
| Dinah Loerke Biophysics |
University of Denver, Colorado (Assistant Professor in Physics) |
| Ge Yang Applied Mathematics |
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Assistant Professor in Bioengineering) |
| Lin Ji Applied Mathematics |
Einstein College of Medicine, New York City. (Assistant Professor in Cell Biology) |
| Matthias Machacek Mechanical Engineering (SNSF awardee, Novartis Research Foundation awardee) |
Novartis AG, Basel, CH |
| Pascal Vallotton Biophysics |
CSIRO, Sydney, Australia (Lab Head) |
| Gabor Csucs Biochemistry |
Light Microscopy Center, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Director) |
Graduate students
| Name and Specialty | First Position After Training |
|---|---|
| Xuexia Jiang Mathematical Modeling for subcellular Signaling |
Medical Student, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas |
| Ning Zhang Computational and Systems Biology |
Postdoctoral fellow in Yuan Lao Lab, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois |
| Jin Suk Park Cancer Biology |
Postdoctoral fellow in Joan Massagué lab, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, New York |
| Ashwathi (Abbee) Mohan Cancer Biology |
Medical student, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri |
| Youbean Oak Molecular Biology |
Simon-Kucher & Partners Consulting, Boston, Massachusetts |
| Pei-hsin Hsu Mathematics and Molecular Biology |
Postdoctoral fellow in Angelika Amonrsquo lab, HHMI/MIT, Boston, Massachusetts |
| Daniel Nunez Bioengineering (NIH F31 awardee) |
Postdoctoral fellow. U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Hunter Elliott Biophysics |
Harvard Medical School, Director Image Data Analysis Core Facility, Boston, Massachusetts |
| James Lin Cell Biology |
Founder and CTO of XCell Biosciences. South San Francisco, California |
| Kathryn Applegate Bioinformatics (NSF fellow) |
BioLogos Forum (Program Director) |
| Alexandre Matov Electrical Engineering |
Postdoctoral Fellow in Torsten Wittmann lab, UC San Francisco, California |
| Jonas Dorn Biophysics (Roche Research Foundation awardee) |
Postdoctoral fellow in Paul Maddox’s lab, IRIC, Montreal, Canada |
| Toru Fischbach Biophysics |
Synthes, Solothurn, Switzerland |
| Aaron Ponti Biophysics |
Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland (Staff Scientist) |
| Claude Berney Biophysics |
Johnson & Johnson Inc., Ostermundigen, Switzerland (Product Manager) |
| Dominik Thomann Biophysics |
X-Rite, Regensdorf, Switzerland (Research Engineer) |
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Danuser Lab would like to hear from graduate students and postdocs who excel are self-driven and willing to engage in rigorous peer-to-peer training. We also welcome applications from student and fellow candidates with explicit interests in dual-lab membership.