Meet our Team

The Kohler Proteostasis lab at Umeå University, Sweden, is led by Verena Kohler

Verena Kohler

Group Leader

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Karl Poncha

Postdoc

Mostafa Basiony

PhD student

Sofia Morney

Summer aspirant

Rui Bian

Undergraduate student in Biomedicine

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Lab alumni

2026

Michael Philips - Undergraduate student in Biomedicine

Jophiya Joy - Undergraduate student in Molecular Biology (Master’s thesis)

Rui Bian - Internship student

2025

Eylül Darende - ERASMUS student

Rebecca Zimmermann - ERASMUS student

Julian Dicken - Undergraduate student in Life Sciences (Bachelor’s thesis)

Laia Pareda de la Osa - ERASMUS student

Rui Bian - Internship student

2024

Zhwan Karim - Undergraduate student in Biomedicine (Bachelor’s thesis)

Samantha Weindel - Undergraduate student in Life Science (Bachelor’s thesis)

Ishil Nihat - Undergraduate student in Life Science (Bachelor’s thesis)

Anabelle Ditu-Stefan - Internship student

Julian Dicken - Internship student

Arya Sedghi Tafreshi - Undergraduate student in Life Science (Bachelor’s thesis)

Science Friends

Joint group meetings, collaborative projects and a lot of fun with the

Kohler Mito Lab

Our Funders