Hoffecker Lab

🍂 Autumn greetings! 🍂 A warm welcome to two new lab members. Dr. Anastassia Runina is joining us as a postdoc. Anastassia, with background in real-time PCR, microarrays and next gen sequencing product development, and STI detection, will be developing novel biotechnologies related to next gen sequencing with us. Johanna Blumenthal, from the Molecular Techniques in the Life Sciences Scilifelab Master program, is joining us for her Project and Master's thesis. Welcome Anastassia and Johanna! In other news, Ian is in the final weeks of a new Master's course CB206V on Machine Learning in Biotechnology, co-organized with Gene Technology Department colleague Anniina Vihervaara. Check out the recorded lectures on Youtube.

Warm welcome to KI student Salomé Hahne! She has recently joined us as part of the Biomedicine Master's program's rotation. Ian taught a 2 day statistics and programming workshop for the Scilifelab Master's program this month. Video lectures can be found on youtube.

We're proud to announce our latest contribution to the emerging field of DNA sequencing-based microscopy. The work was led by newly enrolled doctoral student David Fernandez Bonet. Check out the full preprint.

Congratulations to lab members Simon Kolmodin Dahlberg and David Fernandez Bonet on successful graduation and completion of their M.Sc. programs including successful defenses! We welcome them now as doctoral students. We wish you courage, strength, and good luck on your coming journey!

New paper out on the stochastic modeling of antibody multivalent binding: nature.com/articles/s43588-022-00218-z Check out our research briefing on the topic, and KTH news item for a reader-friendly explanation!

We are welcoming three new members: Dr. Erik Benson has joined us for a postdoc after previously being at Oxford as an MSCA Fellow. Shuai Lang who was previously a Master's student at Karolinska Institutet will begin his doctoral studies with us. And KTH M.Sc. student Simon Kolmodin Dahlberg has joined us now for his thesis. Welcome!

A warm welcome and thanks to our first generation of students. KTH students David Fernández Bonet and Simon Kolmodin Dahlberg will each do their Master's thesis with us. And a belated welcome to KI Master's student Li Ma who has worked over the summer and this autumn, establishing the first experiments and infrastructure of our new lab. Amazing job!

The Hoffecker Lab has set up shop in the amazing Gene Technology department at KTH/SciLifeLab. It is a huge honor to be among this stellar group of internationally recognized researchers.

The Hoffecker Lab will officially launch from May 1st 2021 as a new member in the Gene Technology Department, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology on the SciLifeLab campus in Stockholm. The funding making this possible comes from an ERC Starting grant , a starting grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR), co-financing from KTH's School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health (CBH), central funding from KTH, and a project grant from the Åke Wiberg Foundation.