Team
Principal Investigator
Sebastian Shaw
Principal Investigator
Sebastian started the Shaw Lab at the Institute of Parasitology at the University of Zurich with an SNSF Starting Grant to study Cryptosporidium, an understudied parasite that affects people and animals worldwide. He completed his PhD in Prof. Isabel Roditi’s group in Bern and his postdoctoral training in Prof. Boris Striepen’s group at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He loves molecular biology and genetics and wants the lab to be a place where people work together, have fun, are curious, and safely grow into the next generation of biologists. Outside the lab, he enjoys spending time with his family, hiking and climbing.
Postdocs
DS
Postdocs
Dorenda joined the Shaw lab to study host-parasite interactions that underlie persistence and virulence of Cryptosporidium using single cell approaches. She completed her PhD in Sylvie Garcia’s lab at the Pasteur Institute in Paris as part of the ParaFrap network. There, she studied the interactions between Plasmodium vivax and the human host in the bone marrow using humanized mice and scRNA-seq. She is particularly interested in how apicomplexans manipulate their niche and how the host immune system fights back, and curiosity-driven, collaborative research is what drives her. When not in the lab, you can find her playing board games, climbing boulder walls or taking a dance class.