Lisa M. Domke
PhD student in the Helmholtz Group for Cell Biology
Biography
Lisa M. Domke is a PhD student in the Helmholtz Group for Cell Biology of Professor Werner W. Franke (German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany). Before she has prepared her master thesis with one of the pioneers in cancer research, Prof. Dr. Robert A. Weinberg, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA. The nature of her degree in Biotechnology has allowed her to learn various analytical as well as light and electron microscopical techniques and to work in different fields of life sciences. At present she is finishing her thesis at the DKFZ with Prof. Dr. Werner W. Franke on the molecular and ultrastructural characterization of cell-cell junctions and cytoskeletons in the tubuli seminiferi and their encasing contractile peritubular wall smooth muscle system of diverse mammalian species to improve current methods of molecular diagnostics.