The Junior ECS BOARD

Composition of the Junior ECS Board, since the General Assembly 2021.
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About Us

The Junior European Calcium Society board consists of young scientists (Ph.D. students, postdocs, and non-tenured junior group leaders) in the field of calcium research. The goal of the JECS board is to foster contacts and relationships by creating links between new and well-established scientists, as well as to support the next generation of researchers within the society.

If you are interested in becoming an active member of the ECS Junior Board and organising events and meetings, please feel free to contact us!

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Spokespersons of the Junior Board

Björn-Philipp DIERCKS

Björn-Philipp DIERCKS

Junior Group Leader

University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Björn is interested in high-resolution calcium live-cell-imaging in T cells and the signalling processes of NAADP

Femke SPEELMAN-ROOMS

Femke SPEELMAN-ROOMS

PhD student

KU Leuven, Belgium

Femke studies the Ca2+-independent impact of the intracellular Ca2+ chelator BAPTA-AM on cell function and develops novel BAPTA-AM-based Ca2+ chelators.

Other Members of the Junior Board

Mehrosh AHMED

Mehrosh AHMED

PhD student

ULB, Belgium
I work on mathematically modelling of calcium dynamics in system biology , currently focusing on brain cancer glioblastoma

Aida ASHRAFZADEH

Aida ASHRAFZADEH

PhD student

University of Cambridge, UK
Identifying Brain-Permeable CRAC Channel Inhibitors Targeting CNS Disorders

Malene BROHUS

Malene BROHUS

Postdoctoral Researcher

Aalborg University, Denmark
 Malene studies protein interactions in health and disease, with a particular focus on the role of the calcium sensor calmodulin in calcium-signaling and transduction.

Manon CALLENS

Manon CALLENS

PhD student

KU Leuven, Belgium

Manon is studying the effect of mutations in presenilin on intracellular calcium signaling, and how this contributes to early defects observed in Alzheimer’s disease.

Silke CHALMERS

Silke CHALMERS

PhD student

University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
 Silke is studying calcium signalling in metastatic breast cancer.

Gaia Gherardi

Gaia Gherardi

University of Padova, Italy

Diego González

Diego González

University of Helsinki, Finland 

Diego focuses on the pathological mechanisms of CMT1J disease, caused by variants in the calcium channel IP3R3, with iPSC-derived nerve cells 

Franziska Möckl

Franziska Möckl

Rachael Morris

Rachael Morris

Simone KARLSSON TERP

Simone KARLSSON TERP

Aalborg University , Denmark

Simone investigates how human calmodulin mutations influence calcium signaling in neuronal cells and how this may contribute to neurodevelopmental disorders.

Alumni

  • Annalisa BELLANDI
  • Bekhta FEDLAOUI
  • Helene HALKJAER JENSEN
  • Adeline IVANOVA
  • Qianru (Maggie) MU
  • Jussep SALGADO-ALMARIO
  • Muhammad ASLAM
  • Christoph Brenker
  • Emily Coode
  • Felicity Davis
  • Luca Hegedus
  • Alejandro Marmolejo-Garza
  • Pablo Saez
  • Roya Tadayom
  • Jenny van der Wijst
  • Michael Vaughan
  • Tim Vervliet
  • Geoffrey Woollard

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