Cell sorting for enrichment of neuronal subpopulations – new perspectives for clinical research

Thomas Andreska studied biology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Germany) from 2006–2012. Following his interest in neuroscience, he volunteered in the labs of Martin Heisenberg and Michael Sendtner in 2007 and 2008 at the same university, working on synaptic plasticity. In 2011–2012 he received an ERASMUS research fellowship and performed his Master’s thesis in the lab of Austin Smith at the University of Cambridge (UK). From 2013–2018 he performed his PhD, again in the Sendtner lab, working on new therapeutic targets for Parkinson’s disease and dystonia and continues this work currently as a Project Manager.

Elisa Nent joined Miltenyi Biotec as a Global Product Manager for Neuroscience in 2020. Before this, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics (Freiburg, Germany), where she studied the migration of microglia. Elisa originally comes from the Bonn-Cologne area, where she also completed her studies and obtained her PhD in the field of neuroscience.

Chengjun Jin joined Miltenyi Biotec as a Global Product Manager for MACSQuant Tyto Cell Sorter in 2020. In 2017 he finished his PhD at the Institute of Nutritional Sciences at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (Jena, Germany) with topics of fatty liver diseases. After this, he took a postdoc position at the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University Hospital Düsseldorf (Germany).