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Lab members

Sara Sdelci, PhD

Group leader

Sara obtained her PhD degree in Biomedicine from the University of Barcelona in 2012, after developing a cell cycle focused project at the IRB (Barcelona). Then, she moved for her postdoctoral studies to CeMM (Vienna), where she became expert in designing elegant reporter strategies and performing chemical and genetic screens. In January 2019 she started her group at the CRG (Barcelona).

sara.sdelci@crg.eu

Sara Musa Afaneh, MSc

Lab Manager

Sara completed her BSc from the University of Barcelona (UB) with a degree in biochemistry and then joined our lab to complete here Masters in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Biomedicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). After being in our lab as a research technician, she now continues as Lab manager.

smusa@crg.eu

Toni Gañez, PhD

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

Toni performed his PhD studies in the group of Ann-Kristin Östlund-Farrants at the Stockholm University, focusing on mRNA processing and ribosomal gene expression regulated by chromatin remodeling complexes.
In 2019, he joined our group as a laboratory technician and more recently was awarded a postdoctoral position. His project focuses on the role of metabolic enzymes in cell cycle regulation.

toni.ganez@crg.eu

Ritobrata Ghose, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Rito performed his BSc and MRes degrees at the Imperial College of London (UK). He started out as a developmental biologist in the field of stem cells, but his curiosity for impending questions in the health sciences brought him to transition to cancer research. He recently defended his PhD in our group and is continuing his research on adaptations in cancer and how cancer metabolism may regulate this process.

rito.ghose@crg.eu

Júlia Urgel, MSc

PHD STUDENT

Júlia performed her BSc in Human Biology at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and her MSc degree of Multidisciplinary Research in Experimental Sciences at Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology. The complexity of cellular dynamics in cancer and how the cancer cell can reshape and fine-tune gene regulation at many different levels has deepened her interest in cancer research and has increased her motivation for pursuing a PhD. She is a joint PhD student between our lab and the Janic’s Lab (UPF), and she focuses in in vivo functional genomics to unveil novel metabolic vulnerabilities. 

julia.urgel@crg.eu

Matilda Pfeiffer, MSc

PHD STUDENT

Matilda pursued her BSc in Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany and specialized in Neuroscience at the Universität Leipzig, Germany. During the Master’s, she joined the Mittelbrunn lab for Immunometabolism and Inflammation at the CBM in Madrid, Spain. In her intention to explore the boundaries between arts and science, in 2021 she was awarded the “Bayern Innovative“ grant to compose music and analyze its effects on the immune system. In 2023 she obtained the PROMOS scholarship to work for “Musica por la Ciencia” in Argentina, a foundation using music as a mean for scientific communication. She joined the Sdelci Lab in 2023 as a LaCaixa fellow to decipher the impact of nuclear metabolism in the immune system during aging in a sex-depended manner.

matilda.pfeiffer@crg.eu

Alisa Schmidt, MSc

PHD STUDENT

Alisa completed her BSc degree in Microbiology and Genetics at the University of Vienna. Her interest in innovative research and genetics led her to join the master’s program in Molecular Precision Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna. She joined the Sdelci Lab in February 2024, and completed her Master’s internship, focusing on understanding the role of IMPDH2, a metabolic enzyme, in the nucleus. Following a very successful Masters defence, Alisa is now a PhD student in our lab.

alisa.schmidt@crg.eu

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Johanna Albers, BSc

msc STUDENT
Johanna completed her BSc degree in Biosciences at the University of Münster in Germany. There she also enrolled in the master´s program in Molecular Biomedicine and focused on cancer research. She
 joined our lab in September 2024, and is currently pursuing an internship for her Master’s thesis studying the role of lactylation in breast cancer.

johanna.albers@crg.eu

Tiba Vinck, BSc

msc STUDENT

Tiba completed her BSc degree in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. She is currently undertaking a joint internship between our lab and the Smith Lab at the University of Barcelona (UB), where she is investigating the recruitment of metabolic proteins to chromatin within the context of the circadian cycle. This research forms part of her Masters’ program in Cancer, Stem Cells, and Developmental Biology at Utrecht University.

tiba.vinck@crg.eu

Alumni

Maria Guirola, Lab manager
Lorena espinar, Lab Manager
Chiara Cannatá, Technician
laura garcia, technician
evangelina darai, technician
debayan datta, Bioinformatician
anestis gkanogiannis, bioinformatician
Ilir SHeraj, Bioinformatician
Laura pascual, Post doc
Marta garcia-cao, post doc
Natalia Pardo, PhD student 
Savvas Kourtis, phd student
Rabia Gül Aydin, MSc student
shubhamay das, MSc student
uldana dildabayeva, msc student
Remi badia, MSC student
Milena Ivanisevic, BSc student
carla aranda, BSc student