Gonçalo Castelo-Branco Group – contact

Goncalo Castelo-Branco

Professor

Phone: 08-524 879 36

Department: C2 Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics

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.

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 research group 2022. 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
Fabio Pohl, PhD student
Chao Zheng, PhD student
Mukund Kabbe, PhD student
Petra Kukanja, PhD student
Yuk Kit (Charles), 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.

Recruitments

Ad-hoc applications are welcome. Please e-mail Gonçalo at Goncalo.Castelo-Branco@ki.se.

Lab social

2022

Lab retreat Tallin September 2022.

Sightseeing lab retreat Tallin September 2022.

Celebrating 10 years of the lab, Tallin September 2022.

Mandy Meijer’s PhD defence June 2022.

2021

Lab retreat Djurönäset August 2021.

Lab retreat Djurönäset August 2021.

Playing kubb, lab retreat August 2021.

How many scientists, stormkök. Lab retreat August 2021.

Celebration of Mandy Meijer and Eneritz Agirre’s Neuron paper November 2021.

Secret Santa, Xmas dinner December 2021.

2020

Social distancing picnic/barbecue to welcome Bastien, June 2020.

Retreat Molneuro May 2019 (GCB lab). Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco.

Group picture on the ice with helmets and brushes.

Curling kickoff Molneuro, January 2020 (with PU, EA, SL, UM, PE, JHL and GCB labs, and Antonio del Sol as a guest).

2019

Celebration of Nature paper, January 2019. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco

Retreat Molneuro May 2019 (GCB lab). Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco.

Retreat Molneuro May 2019 (PU, EA, SL, JHL, PE, UM and GCB labs). Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco.

Group photo of the Goncalo Castelo-Branco group.

Lab retreat in Porto July 2019. Photo: private.

Samudyata spiking her thesis into a plank, together with Goncalo Castelo-Branco.

Samudyata’s spikning August 2019. Photo: private.

Samudyata sitting in a lecture hall in front of a screen with presentation, together with Igor Ulitsky.

Samudyata’s PhD defence, with Igor Ulitsky as opponent August 2019. Photo: private.

Group picture of the researchers at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm.

Gonçalo, Tony and Mandy at the Swedish Society for Medical Research (SSMF) Jubileum prize ceremony October 2019. Photo: private.

Queen Silivia hands the prize to Goncalo in front of a large statue of Gustav Vasa at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm.

Gonçalo receiving the Swedish Society for Medical Research (SSMF) Jubileum prize from Her Majesty Queen Silvia October 2019.

2018

Celebration of Nature Medicine paper, September 2018. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco

Celebration of Nature Medicine paper with MolNeuro, September 2018. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco

Lab retreat, September 2018. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco

Celebrating Dev Cell paper, July 2018. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco

Going to the cinema, Isle of Dogs, May 2018. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco

MolNeuro moving in at Biomedicum, April 2018. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco.

Celebration of Mandy's half-time PhD seminar, March 2018. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco.

Curling kickoff 2018 with Arenas', Uhlen's, Ernfors', Hjerling-Leffler's, Marklund's and Linnarsson’s groups. Photo: private.

2017

Visit to our future lab in Biomedicum, December 2017. Photo: private.

Visit to our future lab in Biomedicum, December 2017. Photo: private.

Lab Retreat at Fotografiska, October 2017. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco.

Lab Retreat at Fotografiska, October 2017. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco.

Marek, Sam and Gonçalo at the meeting of the RNA Society of Sweden in Skåne, September 2017. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco.

Gonçalo, Ana and David at Euroglia 2017, July 2017. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco

Farewell barbecue to João, Wouter and Abeer, July 2017. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco

MolNeuro retreat 2017. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco

Gonçalo with the Lau Fellows in Hong Kong, Feb 2017. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco

Lost in Translation, February 2017. Photo: Goncalo Castelo-Branco