Karim Ajmail
PhD candidateResearch interests: Immunology • Biophysics • Microfluidics • Mechanobiology
Academic education
| Since Feb 2024 |
PhD candidate at Max Planck School Matter to Life
Research performed at Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Supervisor: Joachim Spatz |
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| Oct 2021 - Jan 2024 | Matter to Life (M.Sc.) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen |
| Oct 2020 - Sep 2021 | Physics (B.Sc.) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen |
| Oct 2017 - Sep 2020 | Biochemistry (B.Sc.) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen |
Research experience
| Jun 2023 - Jan 2024 |
Master thesis in the group of Joachim Spatz, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research |
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| Jan 2023 - Apr 2023 |
Lab rotation in the group of Karen Alim,
Technical University of Munich |
| Oct 2022 - Jan 2023 |
Lab rotation in the group of Eberhard Bodenschatz,
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization |
| May 2021 - Sep 2021 |
Erasmus+ Research Internship in the Group of Marco Fritzsche,
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (University of Oxford) |
| Nov 2019 - Aug 2020 |
Internship and Bachelor thesis in the group of Andreas Janshoff,
Georg-August-University Göttingen |
Scholarships
| Apr 2018 - Oct 2020 | August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Fellow by the GDCh |
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Poster presentations
| 2023 |
Karim Ajmail
, Fatemeh Mirzapour, Karen Alim "Traction Force Microscopy on engineered blood vessels" Poster Presentation at the DPG conference, Dresden |
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Publications
Bodenschatz, J.F.E., Ajmail, K., Skamrahl, M. et al. Epithelial cells sacrifice excess area to preserve fluidity in response to external mechanical stress. Commun Biol 5, 855 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03809-8