Mitochondrial Metabolism Team

Soni Deshwal

Group Leader
ERC starting grantee
Mitochondrial Metabolism (MIM)
Metabolism and Cell Death Institute, MTTC department
Helmholtz-Munich, Germany

Contact me at:
soni.deshwal@helmholtz-munich.de

+49 893 1874 8944

Marjana Ndoci
PhD candidate
2023-2024
Visiting PhD researcher at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Molecular Metabolism/ IMPRS-ML

2017-2022
Integrated master’s degree at the University of Ioannina, Department of Biological Applications and Technology, Greece

Interested in understanding inter-organelle communication in shaping lipid metabolic pathways

Contact me at:
marjana.ndoci@helmholtz-munich.de

Sharanya Bhattacharya
PhD candidate

2023-2025
Master’s degree in Biological Science from IISER Kolkata, India

2020-2023
Bachelor’s degree in Botany from University of Calcutta, India

Interested in understanding how mitochondria respond to ferroptotic stress

Contact me at:
sharanya.bhattacharya@helmholtz-munich.de

Nathanael Wittmann

Lab Technician

2019-2024
Master’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany

2015-2019
Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany

Contact me at:
nathanael.wittmann@helmholtz-munich.de

Carlotta Bacilieri

Erasmus Student from the University of Padova

2020 – Current
Single-cycle degree in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Techniques at the University of Padova, Italy
Interested in understanding how organelle contact sites influence cellular Coenzyme Q metabolism

Contact me at:
carlottabacilieri99@gmail.com