Team
Magdalena Maslon | Group Leader
Magda is an experimental biologist and a budding bioinformatician. She graduated from Jagiellonian University. She then did her PhD studies in cancer biology. In her last post, she was a postdoc at the Caceres Lab at the University of Edinburgh. Having received funding from NCN and NAWA, she moved to Poznan to set up her own lab. Since then she moved again to Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology. Runner, climber and a mum in her spare time.
Shraddha Shinde | PhD student
Shraddha earned her Master’s degree in Microbiology from Pune University, India. Her Master’s thesis was on cytokine signaling in macrophages, where worked on IL-12 (Interleukin 12) and IL- 10 (Interleukin 10) signaling in Leishmania parasite infection. After her MSc, she joined TMC-ACTREC, to identify expression levels of certain biomarkers (EGFR, COX-2, HIF1A, etc) in cancer cells. Now as a doctoral student in the Maslon lab, she is trying to understand the complexities of RNAPII elongation rate modulation in neurodevelopment. Besides her academic interests, she keeps herself busy with painting: watercolors & gouache, charcoal, sketching human anatomy, soft pastels, acrylics, and oil paint. She reads non-fiction books, loves photography and playing with the lens. Being from Mumbai, she is obsessed with strolling on the streets of Poznan like a maniac, exploring museums, art shops, bookstores, cafes, and trying coffee, and baked products!