Lunch Break

Dr. Eleonora Adami is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Delbrück Center. The molecular biologist and geneticist studies heart failure by applying single-cell genomics approaches in the Hübner lab.

At ECRC, Theda Bartolomaeus investigates how the microbes that colonize the human body affect our lives. In our "Lunch Break" video series, the PhD student reveals how she got into biology – and why sports are so important to her.

Christian Stadelmann has been fascinated by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing since he was an undergrad. Now, the PhD student is investigating the possibility of applying it to treat hereditary muscular dystrophy in Professor Simone Spuler's research group at the ECRC.

Moving to Germany and starting a new job at the MDC in the middle of the first lockdown was not easy. It took months before Dr. Giovanna Diletta Ielacqua could finally meet her colleagues in person. In "LUNCH BREAK", the MRI expert answers our questions.

Science and art have a lot in common, at least when you look at it from Anita Waltho's perspective. In the second episode of “LUNCH BREAK“, she talks cellular trash, creativity in science and Berlin-Brandenburg's lakes.

Ian Erik Stewart doesn't like to completely give up work in his free time. Together with other scientists, he founded "EDGE" - an organisation dedicated to make neuroscience understandable through art. He reveals more in our new "LUNCH BREAK" video series.