Quantitative Spatial Cancer Biology -
Kokkaliaris lab
Our team
Our goal is to create an inclusive, collaborative & multicultural environment that supports researchers with passion for discovery and innovation.
Konstantinos D. Kokkaliaris, PhD
Group Leader
Johanna Hofmann, MSc
PhD Student
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PhD Student
Johanna Hofmann, MSc
PhD Student
Anna Luise Weber
Technical Assistant
Shiba Barlian
Technical Assistant
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Medical Student
Dr. Konstantinos D. Kokkaliaris
Group Leader
Dr Konstantinos Kokkaliaris studied Biology at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), before moving to the University of Edinburgh (UK) for his Master's by research in Life/Biomedical Sciences. He received his PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany) for thesis work at Helmholtz Center Munich under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Timm Schroeder and research visit at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York (USA, hosts: Moore/Lemischka group).
During his PhD work, he identified novel factors supporting long-term self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) ex vivo and patented his findings with Helmholtz Center Munich (Blood, 2016).
For his postdoctoral training, he moved to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich – Switzerland), where he co-developed novel approaches for 3D quantitative multiplexed tissue imaging (Nature Methods, 2018) and mapped the spatial organization of the bone marrow microenvironment (BMM) at the single-cell, protein level and tissue-wide scale (Nature Biotechnology, 2017). Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), Konstantinos joined the groups of Prof. David Scadden at the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University and Center for Regenerative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (USA). There, he completed his work on the spatial distribution of HSCs in relation to multiple niche components simultaneously (Blood, 2020), contributed to the characterization of BMM's complexity at the transcriptome and protein level (Cell, 2018; Cell Stem Cell, 2018) and extended his studies into cancer biology.
Supported by the Mildred Scheel Career Center program, Konstantinos is currently an independent group leader at the University Hospital and Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany).
Anna Luise Weber
Technical Assistant
Anna Luise completed her training as Medical Technician in Koblenz, before working as a full-time technician at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne, Germany. Her work was focused on regulatory mechanisms governing mitochondrial function and animal longevity in the nematode C. Elegans (Tharyam et al., Nature Metabolism, 2020). Following her passion to continue her studies, Anna Luise is currently a bachelor student for Biological Sciences at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, while working
working as a part-time Technician at the Dr. Senckenberg Institute for Pathology and the Quantitative Spatial Cancer Biology group at the University Hospital & Goethe University Frankfurt.
Johanna Hofmann, MSc
PhD student
Johanna studied Biology at the Julius-Maximilians University in Würzburg and competed her thesis on the behavior of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei. Following her BSc studies, Johanna worked as a research assistant on Hematology/Oncology at the University Hospital & Goethe University Frankfurt (Oellerich group), which further sparked her enthusiasm for research. For her Master’s studies, she focused on microbiology, infection and molecular tumor biology investigating the combinatorial effects of radiation and targeted molecular therapies against colorectal cancer. Johanna joined the lab as a PhD student in October 2022.
Shiba Barlian
Technical Assistant
Shiba completed her Bachelor’s degree in Medical Science with distinction at Western Sydney University in Sydney, Australia. Due to her performance, she was included in Dean’s Merit list (top 10% of her class). Shiba also completed a Diploma of Laboratory Technology majoring in Pathology Testing at TAFE at New South Wales, Australia. Shiba has then moved to Germany and joined the group as a Medical Technical Assistant.