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about us
Here we want to shortly introduce ourselves so you know who is behind this project and will take care of you during the summer school. You can always use the contact form if you have any question!
Natalia Filvarova
Founder
Meet the team for 2025!
Kyrania Kaarina Christofi
Team Coordinator, Scientific Content, Webpage Manager
Kyrania is a PhD student working in the developmental biology field at LMU. She studies how microglia can affect early telencephalic development and uses cerebral organoids as a model system. When not working she enjoys long hikes, running, reading and travelling.
Gökçe Dogu
Participant Management
Gökçe is a master’s student in Neuroscience. Her research involves perception, decision making and social behavior in rodents. In her free time she enjoys making music with her psychedelic rock band, watching movies, baking and collecting vinyl.
Elisa Frenna
Social Media
Elisa is a second year PhD student in Neurodevelopment, with a main focus on Cell-to-cell communication among different neural cell types. Outside of the lab she likes reading, painting, sleeping, travelling and dogs (especially her dog, Milk).
Emily Anne Russell
Participant Management, Social Activities
Emily is a neuroscience master's student at the GSN and is currently investigating inflammation using the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis model for multiple sclerosis. When she's not in the lab, she enjoys spending time with friends, swimming, and practicing martial arts.
Daniel Kozłowski
Scientific Content
Daniel is a PhD student at the GSN/IMPRS-BI and is currently investigating the contribution of vestibular signals to the heading direction network in zebrafish larva's brain. He is also interested in theoretical and computational approaches to the nervous system but believes that the pot of gold in neuroscience is animal behavior. In his free time, he enjoys bouldering, reading and writing, playing chess and pretending that he finally understands the rules of the go game.
Ananya Ananth Rao
Scientific Content
Ananya is a PhD student at the GSN working at the intersection of video oculography and vestibular disorders. By evening she moonlights as a singer, dancer, reader of fiction, Netflix binger and planner of travels to new cities.
Gülce Gökçe
Finances and Logistics
Gülce is a PhD student at the GSN who is working on epigenetic mechanisms involved in retinal development. She is focusing on the methylation dynamics using various models including a genetically modified mouse model and retinal organoids produced from human induced pluripotent stem cells. She likes to spend her time practicing her saxophone skills, going to the movies, trying out new recipes and taking photos.
Giorgia Bulli
Team Coordination, Finances and Logistics, Webpage Manager
Giorgia is a PhD student that works in the field of Direct Neuronal Reprogramming. Specifically, she converts human astrocytes into neurons in vitro by using retroviruses. Other than doing science, she loves traveling, watching movies, going to art exhibitions and partying with friends.
Didem Taşkıran
Finances and Logistics
Didem is a Neuropsychology PhD student investigating the role of conscious awareness in visually guided actions in human subjects. In her free time, she likes to explore Munich and travel around Europe.
Melisa Ozmen
Participant Management
Melisa is a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute of Biological Intelligence, where she studies the development of motion-sensing neurons in fruit flies. Outside the lab, she enjoys reading, practicing yoga and growing vegetables in her small garden.
Marta Ianni
Participant Management
Marta is a Research Assistant working in the Developmental Neuroscience Field, on a rare form of Genetic Epilepsy. Besides being constantly in the lab., she enjoys walking (independently from the outside weather), reading and taking non-professional-but-beautiful-photos of whatever she has around.
Rebecca Bonrath
Scientific Content, Finances and Logistic
Rebecca is a PhD student working in the developmental biology field at LMU. She tries to implement and validate a method for crowing organoids an performing calcium imaging. When not in the lab, she loves reading a good book, going plant shopping or sailing.
Cemre Coskun
Scientific Content
Cemre is a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute of Biological Intelligence, specializing in developmental neuroscience. Her research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying dendritic growth in motion-sensitive T4/T5 neurons of Drosophila melanogaster. Outside the lab, she enjoys reading, curating her music blog, and traveling.
Orsalia Veloudiou
Finances and Logistics
Orsalia is a second year PhD student at the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research where she investigates sleep and circadian rhythm disorder in hospitalized stroke patients. Helping students discover neuroscience is a retroactive gift to her high school self.
Judit González Gallego
Finances and Logistics, Former Team Coordinator
Judit is a Post-doc focusing on molecular mechanisms underlying stroke. For that she works with two different models: an in vivo model using genetic modified mice and an in vitro model using induced pluripotent stem cells where she’s trying to generate a blood-brain-barrier model. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, travelling, Netflix and a good conversation with wine. For Neurocamp she is responsible for recruiting sponsors and coordinating the team.
Mehul Nimpal
Participant Management
Mehul is a PhD student at the GSN investigating how to best implement a new MRI method, called 4D-Flow, to look at CSF and blood circulation in the brain after long-duration spaceflight. When not in the lab, you can find him binging another Netflix show, exploring new cuisines, or biking through Munich.
Artemis Gkinakou
Participant Management
Artemis is a neuroscience master's student at the GSN and is currently examining the role of sleep in the vocal learning process in songbirds. In her free time, she loves playing volleyball, reading (mainly classics and literary fiction) and knitting.
Deniz Üreyener
Scientific Content
Deniz is a PhD student specializing in the field of direct neuronal reprogramming. He particularly focuses on the unfolded protein response and combines experimental work with bioinformatics to advance his research. Outside the lab, he enjoys watching movies, traveling, and reading.
Monika Nemcova
Scientific Content
Monika is a neuroscience master student at the GSN and is currently trying to investigate the relationship between sleep and memory. She is also very excited about new statistical approaches to decoding brain activity. In her free time, she loves going to the opera or galleries, biking and reading about history. She is unreasonably obssessed with hats.
Deeksa
Finances and Logistics
Deeksha is a PhD student working on exploring the intricacies of transcriptional and translational regulation of various genes on direct reprogramming. Outside the lab you could find her noodling on a guitar, or at a pub quiz.
We sincerely want to extend our gratitude to all former team members!
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