Dr. Gergely Imre

Group leader

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I had spent the school years in Budapest (Hungary), where I also received my master degree in biology and a second master in teaching. I have completed the Ph.D under the supervision of Dr. Rudolf Mihalik at the Semmelweis Medical University (Budapest). During the Ph.D years I got trained in different aspects of cell biology and tumorbiology. I was fascinated by the emerging concepts of regulated cell death pathways (e.g.: necroptosis) which might play major role in  physiological processes as do their defects in disease progression. Right after finishing the Ph.D, Prof. Krishnaraj Rajalingam invited me to join his research group as a postdoc  at the Institute of Biochemistry 2 (Goethe University). I took this challenge and great opportunity and decided to move to Frankfurt am Main. Here, I focused on different aspects of cell death signaling with an emphasis on bacterial pore forming toxin induced events in the host cells. Since the beginning of 2015, I have been working on establishing a new research group. 

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Madeleine Eichler

PhD Student

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I started studying Biology in 2011 at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main and accomplished my Bachelor’s degree with my thesis about energy conservation of acetogenic bacteria in the lab of Prof. Dr. Volker Müller.

Subsequently, I started my Master in Molecular Biology in 2014, also at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. For my Master’s thesis, I joined the lab of Prof. Dr. Jörg Soppa, where I investigated the influence of polyploidy on gene expression in archaea.

In September 2017, I got the chance to join the group of Dr. Gergely Imre as Phd student and shifted my focus to a research topic with more clinical relevance. Currently I’m working on cell death signaling in cancer cells.

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