Gonçalo Castelo-Branco Group – contact

Goncalo Castelo-Branco

Professor

Telefon: +46852487936

Visiting address

Division of Molecular Neurobiology
Biomedicum, 6C
Solnavägen 9
171 65 Solna

Research environment

Our research group is based at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB), at the Karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm, Sweden, within the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology.

This Research Division has presently 8 research groups, focused on several aspects of development, stem cell biology, neuroscience and cancer, providing a unique critical mass and expertize, and vibrant scientific environment. Our research group has access to state-of-the-art resources in molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, and cell imaging within the unit, at the MBB department and the National Core Facility SciLifeLab at the KI campus. Our research group is also member of the Karolinska Neuroimmunology & Multiple Sclerosis Center (KNIMS), which brings together MS clinical and basic research scientists

Furthermore, KI is a university focused on biomedical sciences and the Nobel Assembly at KI annually awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. KI ranks as one of the world's leading medical universities, with around 600 research groups covering all medical fields.

Research group

Gonçalo Castelo-Branco forskargrupp 2023 på lab retreat i Visby.

Gonçalo Castelo-Branco research group 2023 at the lab retreat in Visby. Photo: GCB lab

Goncalo Castelo-Branco, Principle investigator
Tony Jimenez-Beristain, Research coordinator
Bastien Hervé, Core computational biologist
Eneritz Agirre, Researcher
Federico Ansaloni, Postdoctoral fellow
Karl Carlström, Postdoctoral fellow
Yonglong Dang, Post-doctoral fellow
Leslie Kirby, Post-doctoral fellow
Neemat Mahmud, Post-doctoral fellow
Ting Sun, Post- doctoral fellow
Mattia Zaghi, Post-doctoral fellow
Fabio Pohl, PhD student
Chao Zheng, PhD student
Mukund Kabbe, PhD student
Petra Kukanja, PhD student
Yuk Kit Lor, research assistant
Fleur de Boer, master student
Mattia Gentili, master student
Esmée van Rixel, master student

Previous post-doctoral fellows

Sueli Marques
Ana Mendanha Falcao
Elisa Floriddia
Alessandro Bonetti
Marek Bartosovic

Previous PhD students

David van Bruggen, Samudyata, Mandy Meijer

Previous visiting PhD students

Laura Bayon, Carlos Matute’s lab
Tania Lourenço, Mário Grãos lab

Previous project/bachelor/master students

Gkrasiela Chatziai, Naomi Rijk, Michelle Westerberg, Celine Geywitz, Negi Sadeghi Hassanabadi, Rashid Holtinkoski, Leipa Kazlauskaite, Milda Valiukonyte, Marjan Abbasi, Gloria Chen, Filip Cvetko, Helena Francis, Kedir Hamza, Iris Muller, Atul Paulson, Theresa Mader, Fatemah Rezayee, Abdirahman Farah, Diana Hernandez, João Santos, Wouter Beenker, Abeer Heskol, Bastienne Zaremba, Shupei Zhang, Ka Wai Lee, Florian Gabriel, Natali Papanicolaou, Cassandra van Tuijn, Prachi Harshal Bhagwatwar, Shreya Sarangi, Dimitris Dimitrakopoulos, Carmen Abaurre, Laura Volle, Yuk Kit (Charles) Lor, Noah Holzleitner, Sergi Florenza, Oluwatoba Ajani, Selma Aghabashlou Saisan.