Marino received his PhD in 1982 from the University of Trieste in Italy. His journey then took him from Paris to EMBL Heidelberg before becoming one of the founding fathers of the MPI-CBG in Dresden in 1998. During his successful career, Marino and his group have dedicated countless hours to the mechanisms that govern intracellular trafficking; work that was recognized with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 2006. In 2023, he took a position as Director of the Human Technopole Institute in Milan and holds a double - affiliation. For more information and a detailed CV, please visit Marino´s profile on the institute´s website.
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Bonjour! After a PhD in Paris on extracellular vesicles, Émeline decided to move to Dresden to look at what is happening to vesicles inside the cell. Her project is focused on their biology, to understand how to use them to increase molecule delivery to cells. In her free time, she is also involved in environmental sustainability following Zero Waste Europe.
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How do living things work? Matt uses tools from physics and math to make models which encapsulate our ideas about what’s going on. He grew up in Arizona, USA and did his PhD at UC Irvine in Southern California. In the lab, he is currently working on understanding the mechanics of bile canaliculi.
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Federica landed in Dresden from the warm southern Italian coast. She is a biochemist PhD student and works on the in vitro reconstitution of the endosomal machinery. Scientists say biochemistry is like cooking, if you enjoy the first one you would like the second one as well. Come to visit my bench(es) work.
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Spending her postdoc years in Berkeley, California, made her not only fall in love with big-scale screens but also National Parks and the occasional IPA. Outside of the lab, the native Austrian likes skiing and playing volleyball, crafting and hanging out with fellow parents at diverse playgrounds.
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Can I tweet this? Lisa has chosen a desk over the bench in the name of scientific writing, communication and science management. Responsible for grant applications, scientific reporting, the website and Twitter, she manages the internal and external communication needs of the lab. Born and raised in Germany, she fell in love with the Mediterranean way of science during her PhD in Barcelona.
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What looks messy for a German, may look perfectly ordered to this Chilean. José is obsessed with understanding the hidden order inside the disorder. Developing a multi-lineage cell culture system, José dreams to unravel how liver cells navigate through the mess and self-organize into functional structures. It’s all about keeping good communication, he says. Where there is mess, there is beauty!
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Don't panic! As the director's assistant for many years, Sandy is the interface between science and administration. She keeps track of everything that is going on, supports the group members and also has a piece of advice at hand when needed. Furthermore, Sandy has gained a lot of experience in event management and knows what matters.
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Karl is working on a collaborative project in the framework of the cluster of excellence Physics of Life in both Schlierf and Zerial groups. His project focuses on elucidating the entropic collapse mechanism of the endosomal membrane tether EEA1, specifically by using biophysical methods to learn more about the dynamics of the coiled-coil fold. As a studied Bioengineer and - wait for it – winemaker, he knows how to get the best out of what nature has to offer.
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Born and raised in Dresden, she explored Western Germany for higher education and also worked in a pharma company for a bit. She is a liver tissue and cells expert and contributed to the establishment of the 3D sandwich collagen culture of primary hepatocytes in 24 and 96 well format.Sarah is an integral part of the team and always has a helping hand for struggling scientists.
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Build Break Breakthrough! Anupam enjoys learning about living systems and is always open for discussions. Interested in time-scales and all other scales.
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Aleks serves two masters because she joined the lab as a Ph.D. student between the group of Mertixel Huch and ours. Her work is focused on establishing organoids mimicking certain liver functions as a novel experimental system in our group. She then will query the system for certain organizational subunits that could be important for liver function. If she is not at the bench, she is in charge of lab life documentation. Cheese!
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Alice feels most at home in the areas of nanomedicine and drug delivery. As an Italian Biologist, she moved to the University of Manchester in the UK to obtain a Ph.D. where she discovered her love for cell biology and drug delivery. She joined the lab to continue her studies on intracellular trafficking, in particular on the endosomal escape process, which represents the bottleneck hindering the efficient delivery of RNA therapeutics. When she is not playing with nanoparticles, she is probably singing with her band or riding her mountain bike in the countryside.

Flash works part-time as the lab mascot and sleeps through most of his meetings. As a most senior team member (in dog years), his favorite activities are riding the elevator and tranquil walks around the institute. Although Flash is quite social, he has no love for small white fluffy conspecifics.
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