KI Team
Mikael Rydén
Principal investigator MD, PhD, Professor, senior consultant and head of Endocrinology Unit, Dep of Medicine, Huddinge, KI.
Mikael is expert in clinical adipose tissue research and functional phenotyping of human adipocytes.
Niklas Mejhert
Co-Principal investigator, PhD, Associate Professor, Research group leader.
After spending five years as a Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, Niklas returned to Karolinska Institutet in 2019 on a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global fellowship. Shortly after his return, he started a joint group with Mikael Rydén.
Current work force
Thais De Castro Barbosa
PhD, Senior Research TechnicianKI, Dep of Med
Expert in cell culture work including cell-line models and primary cultures of human skeletal muscle and adipocytes.
Jiawei Zhong
PhD StudentKI, Dep of Med
PhD student dissecting the gene regulatory networks operating in white adipose using spatial transcriptomics.
Alina Lapp
MScWorking on gene editing of human adipocytes.
Maureen Verdier
MScI'm a research assistant studying the proteome of human adipocytes.
Danae Zareifi
PhDPostdoctoral researcher working on adipocyte organellar proteomics with a primary focus on the lipid droplet proteome.
Mattias Hansen
PhD StudentPhD student working on high-throughput interrogation of gene functions in human adipocytes using gene editing tools.
Jiaxin Luo
MSc, Research Assistant working on bioinformaticsResearch assistant working on transcriptomics and epigenomics data analysis, as well as on computational method development to explore complex biological networks.
Other labs
Lucas Massier
PhD Helmotz Institute, MunichPostdoctoral fellow who develops gene editing tools for human adipocytes (CRISPR, Transfection, Lentivirus) and adipocyte spheroids. Vast experience in gut microbiome studies & analysis of related next-generation sequencing data as well as adipose tissue genetics (e.g. GWAS analysis).
Volker Lauschke
Associate Professor in Personalized Medicine and Drug DevelopmentDirector of the Micro- and Nanoengineering Facility
CEO of HepaPredict AB
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology (FyFa)
My lab is specialized in primary human tissue engineering, particularly of organotypic 3D models of human liver, pancreas, skeletal muscle and adipose tissue. To this end, we combine expertise in cell biology, systems and network analytics and microfluidics to develop models of tissue function and crosstalk in health and disease. Within SPHERES, we contribute with the development, characterization and benchmarking of human spheroid models from SVF.
Previous Fellows
Na Wang
MD, PhD, Senior Research TechnicianKI, Dep of Med
Senior lab manager that worked with functional phenotyping of human adipose tissue. Has since moved to the UK.
Salwan Maqdasy
MD, PhDKI, Dep of Med
Specialist in Endocrinology trained in France where he also obtained his PhD. Post-doctoral fellow focusing on functional bioenergetic analyses of human adipocyte but has now started his own group at the Andrology Unit Karolinska University Hospital.
Alison Ludzski
PhDKI, Dep of Med
Postdoctoral fellow that worked with high-throughput functional screens of human adipocytes. Has since moved to the US to continue in academic science.
Morgane Couchet
PhD
Worked on the immortalization of human adipocyte models as Postdoctoral researcher. Has moved to France to continue a career in Science and biotechnology.
PhD
Worked on the immortalization of human adipocyte models as Postdoctoral researcher. Has moved to France to continue a career in Science and biotechnology.
Omar Hmeadi
PhD
KI, Dep of Med
Postdoctoral fellow that conducted research on the proteomes of adipocyte organelles. Has since started his own research group at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science.
