Kristina Ganzinger

AMOLF,
The Netherlands

After studying biochemistry and biophysics at Technische Universität München (DE), KristinaGanzinger received her PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2015, under theguidance of Sir Prof. David Klenerman. After a postdoc at the MPI for Biochemistry (Martinsried, GER) withProf. Petra Schwille, she began her current position as tenure-track group leader at the NWO physicsinstitute AMOLF (Amsterdam, NL) in 2018. The main aim of the Ganzinger group at AMOLF is to unravelhow immune cells communicate with each other, both in natural and immunotherapy contexts, and todevelop minimal signaling modules for synthetic cells: how do immune cells use molecular signalingpathways to transmit, process, and respond to information, both precisely and unambiguously? Theapproach is based on microscopy that pushes technical boundaries and on synthetic biology tools, such asfabrication of funcitionalised GUVs. We are passionate about combining signaling pathway reconstitutionwith single-molecule biophysics to provide a unique mechanistic and quantitative perspective on cell signaling.

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