People
Ina Maria Schiessl, Associate Professor
Ina is a pharmacist who dedicated her career to basic medical research of renal (patho-) physiology. Her signature research approach is serial intravital multiphoton microscopy (MPM) of the kidney; a powerful technique to study renal structure and function simultaneously and over several weeks in the same living animal.
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She pioneered the field by first implementing abdominal imaging windows for serial imaging of the kidney and established this technique in multiple labs. Tracking the same kidney cells for weeks at a time, she established novel insights on renal cell injury and regeneration and published these data as first and last author in top field-specific and interdisciplinary journals. IMS is internationally well-connected, an organizer of several renowned scientific meetings, an active steering committee member within the American Physiological Society and regularly invited to present her findings at prestigious international conferences. Since her recruitment as an independent group leader at Aarhus University in 2019, she received over 18M DKK in competitive research funds, including a prestigious DFF Sapere Aude and an NNF Emerging Investigator Grant. Her dynamic team in Aarhus uses serial 2-photon microscopy in combination with multiple other state-of the art techniques to decipher renal cell function and plasticity in kidney disease and established streamlined processing protocols for analysis of challenging in vivo 4D data sets.
Hanne Kidmose, Biomedical Laboratory Scientist
Education: Biomedical laboratory scientist, specialized in histology and cytology; Diploma of engineering in Biotechnology, Process Technology and Chemistry
Research Interest: Hanne is the heart of the lab. She loves science and provides critical support to all running projects in the lab.
Expertise: immunohistology, ex vivo histology, tissue clearing, animal surgery and handling, protein purification and enzymatic assays, Elisa, SDS-page/western blot, cell culture techniques, PCR,
Anders Kristensen, Postdoc
Education: MSc (Sport Science), PhD (Public Health)
Research Interest: Anders studies myofibrobast dynamics and interactions with injured and non-injured tissue respectively to understand the role of fibrosis in disease progression.
Expertise: Intravital 2-photon imaging, tissue clearing, ex vivo histology, image processing, microsurgery
Isabela Bastos Binotti Abreu De Araujo, Postdoc
Education: B.S. in Biology, M.Sc. in Biotechnology, and PhD in Medicine
Research Interest: Isabela works on endothelial cell plasticity in the kidney.
Expertise: Intravital 2-photon imaging, molecular biology techniques, ex vivo histology, image processing, microsurgery, awake mouse GFR measurements
Francesco De Luca, Postdoc
Education: MSc (medical science), PhD (renal medicine)
Research interest: Francesco investigates the propagation of focal injury in the kidney into adjacent nephrons as a potential underlying mechanism leading to chronic kidney disease.
Expertise: cell culture, immunofluorescence, wide-field and confocal microscopy, animal surgery, intravital 2-photon microscopy, spatial transcriptomic scRNA-seq, R programming.
Alumni
Freja Vigen Christiansen, Medical student
In her empirical bachelor project, Freja characterizes molecular expression patterns of a novel cell type in the kidney.
Sofie Kirchhoff-Jensen, research assistant
Education: Master in Biology
Sofie is now a science communicator at Randers Rainforest
Donato Sardella, PhD Student
Education: MSc (Biological Sciences)
Donato has successfully defended his PhD and now works as a postdoc with Morten Nielsen and Christian Folsted at AU where he develops new approaches to image cleared mouse organs with Lightsheet micrsocopy. Congratulations, Donato!
Luca Bordoni, Postdoc
Education: MSc (Molecular Biology), PhD (Biomedicine).
Luca is now working for the Glia Lab at Oslo University. He keeps on working with with intravital micrscopy and now studies neurofunction.
Eva Vonbrunn, Visiting PhD Student
Education: MSc (Biochemistry)
Eva has now successfully defended her PhD and is now a postdoc at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and seeks to establish intravital micrscopy of the kidney for her new projects.
Layla Pohl, Erasmus and PhD Student
Education: Medical doctor
With us Layla has acquired skills to perfomrm serial intravital 2-photon microscopy! She successfully transfered this knowledge for imaging of the spleen and successfully defended her PhD! She is now a postdoc with Søren Degn at AU. Congratualtions, Layla!
